Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

  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 30 th 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 18 th 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 )  ...

I like a good church and to be honest a cathedral ( but we don't have one near me ! ) Lets take a trip with all the lovely church's that we have in the area ... In this journey ...we have St Michael's - Weeton St Michael's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Weeton . It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn. Built in 1843 ( land granted by the 13th Earl of Derby )  and enlarged in 1846. It has been designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage.  St Michael's is constructed in the early english style, of red brick with stone dressings. The roof is slate . At the west end of the building there is a bellcote with a miniature spire . The plan consists of a nave and a chancel. To the north of the nave is a porch at the main entrance, and to the south of the chancel is a vestry. There are coupled lancet windows, and a triple lancet window in the west wall. Internally, the roof's timber structure includes st...

Information taken from the Church website .... Images in this post taken over the last few years - note this is the 2nd version of St Paul's church.  Worship at Marton began in 1760 when Rev. Mr Gibson of Lytham came to the Charity School (Baines Endowed) to perform divine worship every alternate Sunday afternoon. Prior to this and every other Sunday the villagers of Marton had to walk to Poulton, well nigh impossible in winter due to the marshy conditions.It was another 40 years before Marton got it’s own church, a plain brick built church dedicated to St Paul opened in 1800. It was 1892 almost a hundred years later before a fee of £2.2s was paid for the separation from St Chad’s. (The vicar at St Chad’s is still the patron of St Paul’s.) In 1897 it was decided to erect a new church in "preference to repairing and restoring the old one", and on 22 January 1908 the first sod was cut. The consecration took place on 28th May 1909 but due to lack of funds ...

Postcard circa 1900's Another from 1910 onwards. I love cobbled walls , round the back of the house just near the church is this fantastic cobbled wall ! Kate and I were trying to figure out thou why some of it had been bricked up ? Taken in 2014  On a rare open day the Church laid out some photo's and paintings they have ! Painting below and after that an actual image - one of the people on the tour ( quite mature ) said that he remembered the stone cottage and wished it was still there. Next I must thank Brian Hughes & Michelle Harris for the following information as they know much more than I do with regards to the church history The Arch and the Zodiac After almost one thousand years, as you might expect, little remains of Bispham’s Norman heritage. However, if you look closely enough, you might just be surprised. Take the entrance to All Hallows church, for instance, which has to be one of the finest examples of ...