Kings Christian Centre, Warley Road , Blackpool... 2011 to 2020...

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So in 1897 Warley Road Congregational Church, Blackpool: This temporary church, on the corner of Warley Road and Gynn Avenue was founded: the members of the Victoria Congregational Church had raised £2,096 in their Jubilee fund which was used to establish the Warley Road church. 

Renamed as Claremont Congregational Church was then opened there on the 30th of August 1901. The chapel cost £5,000 and the land another £1,000. It was built by the Mayor, Alderman T H Smith, from the designs of Anderson, Simon, and Crawford, architects, of Edinburgh. The church was not consecrated until 1932. The Claremont Congregational Lecture Hall and Assembly Rooms opened on the 18th of March 1908.

In 1972, the church became the Claremont United Reformed Church, but closed in 1994.

The building later became the Kings Christian Centre, but this had closed down by 2014. It was demolished in October 2017, to be replaced by 15 apartments.

 ( extra information by Nick Moore ) 

 

The following is from 2016 and from  the Evening Gazette ( and your now only allowed to read 5 , yes 5 articles a week ! so in the interest of passing on information I have highted the points made..

Gazette 2016 link

Site owners revealed plans to flatten the Kings Christian Centre, formerly known as the Claremont Congregational Church, on Warley Road, North Shore, in December 2014. ( 2016  gazette article )  Blackpool-based GO Developments was given the green light to turn the land into homes in November last year.

The final parts of the 116-year-old church, which was sold to a London-based developer this year, came down on Friday after several weeks of demolition work. Warbreck ward councillor Danny Scott said: “An empty church is no good to anybody. Rather than having a run-down building in our ward we will not have some private property there.”

Former site owner Ged O’Mahoney, who bought the site for £250,000, revealed plans to replace the church with a three-storey building containing 15 two-bedroom flats.

Coun Scott added: “I will back anything that will lift Warbreck up.

“There are a lot of places in Warbreck that have gone downhill in recent years , but with these investments and a brand new block of flats being built, hopefully we will see a great boost to the ward and its surrounding areas.

“I look forward to seeing them when they are done.”

David Charles-Cully, who owns Cabaret Costumes Fancy Dress Hire on Dickson Road behind the church, said: “I heardthe most almighty bang out the back, and when I went and looked out of the window the whole place had gone.

“It was a very run-down and dilapidated old building, so the re-development should be good for people living here.

“At least it will boost property values.

“It’s just a shame it couldn’t be refurbished.”

 On one of the past groups this week I noticed a chap had posted some building shots of the site so of course I had to pop down and add to the archive, I have been taking photographs and video of this since 2011 ! 


 

 


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Kings Christian Centre, Warley Road , Blackpool... 2011 to 2020... 

 

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