Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

Image drawn by Brian Hughes Devonshire Road was a community hospital that offered both inpatient and outpatient facilities to residents of Blackpool and its surrounding areas. The hospital housed the Fylde Coast's Dermatology Services and had a Renal Dialysis Unit, a Rehabilitation Ward, Dermatology Ward and a Clinical Skills Laboratory on site. 1891 Blackpool Isolation Hospital was opened on Devonshire Road on the 7 th 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 26 th 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. As some of you know I run the popular group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackpoolspast/ wh

Old and new... The RED BOX Quarter is set within a substantial and attractive Grade II listed former Post Office and Royal Mail delivery building set on a site of 0.93 acres. The name has been taken from its former use and the existing red phone boxes to its entrance. The former Post Office has a Renaissance style façade fronting on to Abingdon Street and has retained its charm with many existing features both internally and externally. This provides the main entrance into the new retail and leisure development. From the brilliant  https://liveblackpool.info/about/town-centre/blackpool-post-office/ office of Jane Littlewood ..we have the following from 2018 Blackpool Post Office is set for a transformation. New life is to be breathed into the old building as it’s developed into the Red Box Quarter. New designs were revealed in January 2018, showing how Blackpool’s former main Post Office could be transformed into a contemporary shopping and leisure hub. T

Samlesbury Hall is a historic house in Samlesbury , Lancashire , England, six miles (10 km) east of Preston. It was built in 1325 by Gilbert de Southworth (b. 1270), and was the primary home of the Southworth family until the early 17th century. Samlesbury Hall may have been built to replace an earlier building destroyed during a raid by the Scots, during The Great Raid of 1322 . The hall has been many things in its past including a public house and a girls' boarding school, but since 1925, when it was saved from being demolished for its timber, it has been administered by a registered charitable trust , the Samlesbury Hall Trust. This Grade I listed medieval manor house attracts more than 50,000 visitors each year. Samlesbury Hall is open to the public daily except on Saturdays. Before being owned by the Southworths, Samlesbury manor belonged to the d'Ewyas family. Gilbert de Southworth of Warrington acquired half of the manor by marriage t