Editing Blacon (section)

==History==
===North Blacon (Blacon Hall)===
[[File:ParadeBlacon.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Parade Shops in Blacon]]
Blacon was originally known as ''Blakon Hill'' and was owned by the [[Marquess of Crewe]].<ref>Page 4 The 'Blacon Voice' December 2006 Issue #42</ref>
The Parish of Blacon cum Crabwall was formed in 1923, and on 1 April 1936, under the Cheshire County Review Order, 1936, most of the parish was transferred to Chester County Borough.<ref>[http://archive.cheshire.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=((text)='blacon') "Blacon cum Crabwall Parish Council"]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927004534/http://archive.cheshire.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27blacon%27%29 |date=27 September 2007  }}, 1894-1936</ref>

It was a small farming village community until major building work by [[Chester City Council]] began in the early 1950s. Most of the older and original estate was built in the ten years to 1960, though further parts were added, on the old army camp site in South Blacon, in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. 'The Parade' Shops, built in 1954 in north Blacon, are an example of Chester City Council building. In 2015, the Parade Enterprise Centre opened, a joint venture between Avenue Services and [[Cheshire West and Chester Council]]. The Parade Enterprise Centre houses [[Sanctuary Housing]], Blacon Library, as well as a community hall and various other offices for local businesses.

===Blacon Camp (Blacon Lodge)===
[[File:Target Dossier for Blacon Point, Chestershire, England - DPLA - f86b692bbf44157b33f85ae6a1cedde1 (page 1).jpg|thumb|right|Blacon Camp on a target dossier of the German [[Luftwaffe]], July 1941]]
The [[British Army]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cheshireregiment.org/ |title=The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment |access-date=8 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208224645/http://www.cheshireregiment.org/ |archive-date=8 December 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> maintained an army camp in south Blacon, from just before, to just after, the [[Second World War]]. A mixture of wooden and '[[Nissen hut|Nissen]]' huts were occupied by soldiers until the late 1950s; and the army firing range was still in evidence until the Chester City Council 'tower block' buildings of the mid-1960s. Blacon Camp housed various military operations, containing aircraft and war prisoners at the time. This part of (South) Blacon is referred to as 'The Camp' by local residents.