Urban Regeneration - Gateway Project

I loved this club *The Tache* and spent many a happy and slightly tipsy evening in here ! Spent a fair few months taking photographs of the area while it was being knocked down - This one from 2012.
 

Now here is a sight that we won't be seeing much longer as now ( March 2016 ) we only have the 3 tower blocks left - with the rest going in May.

Blackpool Bus Station ( taken 2012 ) -Blackpool Transport was founded in 1885 by the town council. The tramway opened on 29 September 1885 using a conduit system to operate the trams using electricity. However, due to difficulties with this method of operation, 550V overhead wiring was installed over the tracks in 1899 to replace the conduit system. In the 1920s, the first bus services were added to transport operations in Blackpool.

Its original cream and green exterior displayed coloured panels depicting progress in transport.

The building was reclad in the 1960s when the tiles were considered to be in an unsafe condition.
In 2006 the bus station was earmarked for demolition as part of the 227 million redevelopment - the Talbot Gateway project - to revitalise the area. The neighboring market building was bulldozed to create a surface car park and although the bus station still stands there are more parked cars in there than coaches these days.

Devonshire Road Hospital - Brief history -

1891 Blackpool Isolation Hospital was opened on Devonshire Road on the 7th of July. This original sanatorium, behind the cemetery, was demolished in 1906 after being kept briefly for smallpox isolation. The new hospital was formally opened on the 26th of March on the opposite corner of Devonshire Road and Talbot Road. Still called Blackpool Sanatorium, it soon became known as Devonshire Road Infectious Diseases Hospital until 1954; locals knew it as “The Fever Hospital”.

The hospital was finally demolished in 2007. ( running joke through these blogs - yes ITS a carpark ! )