Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

Happy New Year everybody !  I have been set a challenge !  How many pictures can I find of Poulton stocks ?!!!  Ok this was taken last year in 2019... With the red flowers 2014... This is from one of my slides - 1967   Another one of my slides from 1967  Re the image above - Richard benson on Poulton past had the following to say ! - I had a story about the stocks id like to share. My Great Aunt told me this many years ago. Just after the war the stocks where vandalised. At the same time our family farm (Butlers Farm), which was located at the end of First Avenue and land extended to what is now Garstang Road, was bought by the council for housing. The gate posts from the farm where used to rebuild the stocks and are still there today. Quite humbling that I have a small link to my home town land mark. Here's a picture to the old farm and th...

Fylde Farm School (Approved) at Normoss farm opened, run by the Manchester and Salford Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders. Th e school had been started in 1854 as an industrial school. Plans to build a new housing development and holiday village on the site of the former Fylde farm school, Normoss Road, have been passed by Wyre planners. The development plan, which includes 162 new homes, holiday accommodation, offices, education and conference facilities, a fishing lodge, swimming pool, gym and a large country park, was given the go ahead at the meeting yesterday. The proposal was submitted by Lytham-based Kensington Developments. The holiday village, including a country park, lakes and accommodation will be used by the Kensington Foundation, a Blackpool-based charity which promotes the relief of homelessness and poverty and provides holidays for families of children with terminal illness. It will mean staff and children at Emmanuel Christian School, wh...

shhhh - Poulton stocks are known to be mediaeval or medieval ( depending which version and spelling you think is correct!  ) and they’re, apparently, flanked by the posts in question. Unfortunately, however, these pillars are not the originals. The September 1992 edition of Lancashire Life reliably informs us that: “In the days when double-deck buses had to make a tight turn, these were shattered several times and had to be replaced by weathered stone posts salvaged from local farms.” Images below taken by myself and own collection.