Talk:Little Harwood

Article lacks history and context

I'm going to flag this page up as having "multiple issues" because it is light on historical detail and focuses too much on the contemporary demographics. In particular, although it is certainly true that Little Harwood is now a predominantly Pakistani heritage Muslim community, the nominally white British Christian community was still the overwhelming majority in the 2001 census. Yet St Stephen's Church, for example, doesn't even merit a mention. Indeed, as someone who grew up in Little Harwood in the 1970s and early 1980s, it was still a predominantly white neighbourhood, although the Pakistani heritage Muslim community was already a significant minority back then.

The 2011 census shows that the Muslim community is now the majority, and the bulk of that community appears to have been British-born, with that fundamental change having taken place within a decade. That is certainly a very interesting demographic phenomenon, and one that I think editors should work together in exploring. I think the tipping point may have been the transformation of the Unit Four cinema into a mosque; that is certainly what I gather from people I know who stayed on in Little Harwood, although this is open to discussion obviously.

However, Little Harwood has a long history that stretches back hundreds of years, which this article simply doesn't touch. There is a good authoritative source on some of this history at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53108 There is also very little coverage of the local economy, major employers in the area and so on. There are authoritative sources on each of these, so I will add these to the article shortly to give it more depth and context. --TuringBox (talk) 20:32, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

There is also a lot of uncited 'original research'. I'll be adding "citation needed" tags accordingly. --TuringBox (talk) 20:35, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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Outdated information

Article contains outdated information such as Tauheedul Islam Boys school. The school has been shifted to another Blackburn location. 2A02:C7E:2762:1D00:B96E:2F54:E1E:2964 (talk) 23:24, 3 June 2023 (UTC)