Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

Friends of Layton Cemetery   https://www.facebook.com/Friends-of-Layton-Cemetery-917361268373081/?fref=ts Run tours and will be doing this more next year in 2017 , it seems that over the next few years that funding will be cut and the cemetery will have to raise funds to maintain the grounds. Lots of local history here and lots to learn However what does made me sad are these graves here....moved from the centre of town at St John's church which in previous years was pedestrianized , and now lie at the back, in the corner, some even broken....   Lets take some action now....save your heritage and click the link at the top for more details - thank you - Juliette

Taken early August and the weather was most kind - Enjoy :)

Taken during the demolition of Queenstown flats !

I like carparks , but for the reason of getting a different angle for my photography !

1087 The local villages Bispham, Layton, Marton, Carleton, and Staining   are mentioned in the DoomsdayBook, along with Rossall, Thornton, Poulton and Lytham.  Famous people also buried there, Violet Carson of Coronation street, Reginald Dixon band player, Stanley Mortenson football player and Jimmy Clitheroe comedian. Carleton Crematorium In 1936 my local paper the Blackpool Evening Gazette ran a very interesting ghost story about Carleton Crematorium. A Layton taxi driver claimed he had seen the face and body of a green ghost at the gates. This story appeared 70 years ago in my local paper, yet the media still deals with it in a ‘shock’ value way. In the actual article it is pointed out that 5 years previously in 1931 a lonely widow had been battered to death in nearby Robins Lane- perhaps the green face had been this poor woman’s ghost. Looking into the history of the area I was quite surprised to find how much land the crematorium actually covered and delighted