Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

Have camera will take a photograph ( or in some cases use my phone ) below is a delight that was sourced from Arnold School ( now closed and looking rather overgrown ) Now at some point will edit this as need to get the right info from the oracle ( Mum ! ) Ahhh Preston Museum have very quaint items ... The sights of Blackpool ... Last Christmas I gave you my .... hold on .... I made this !!!! Blue Peter eat your heart out ! Guy's Mum ( Lin ) sends the most epic Easter gifts ... The former Yates ( town centre ) still derelict  ( still have zoolander voice saying this sorry ) At some point it may have a Hotel built , or bless another car park !!

What does the town of Blackpool mean to most of our reader’s? Kiss me quick hats, donkeys on the beach, the tower, the pleasure beach, happy days as a small child building sandcastles on the promenade to think of a few. But what of its murky paranormal past and stories of murder and mayhem? Here are just a few tales of the town’s strange history….. An ex-World War I soldier put his crime down to post-traumatic stress disorder, but he still ended up on the gallows. Lieutenant Frederick Rothwell Holt had murdered his girlfriend, and then tried to plead insanity. But there was a huge question of a £5,000 life insurance policy hanging over the case Near Blackpool Airport there are a stretch of sand dunes than run along the coast for a fair few miles. As a young child I actually used to go and play on them! On Christmas eve 1919 the body of Kathleen Breaks ( known as Kitty )   was found, she had been shot three times by a revolver. In the sand dunes the police found a Wesle...

Blackpool’s Top 10 Ghost Myths & Legends Frenchman's Cove is in the South King Street premises which once housed Duckworth's Tobacco warehouse. Reports from owner Billy Johnson have included that workmen building in the cellar have thought that someone or something have been watching them. Billy got sent an article and photograph from the time the warehouse was built, this revealed that the ghost in question came from Scarborough and was called Laura Schoons. To this day late at night staff still feel that someone or something is watching them.   Blackpool may owe its early reputation for healing the sick in mind and body to the priests who took refuge in the isolated building of ‘the Foxhall’ in the 17th century. The original building was far from grand. It was a long, low three-gabled residence which resembled a farmhouse. Its 3 storeys each had 4-5 rooms with low ceilings - the ground floor also included a private chapel. There was a small lead tower on t...

TOP 10 Lytham & St Anne’s GHOSTS & MYTHS         In 1895 The Glendower Hotel was formally a ladies college owned and run by Miss Bayley. Around 1905, a pupil committed suicide by poisoning herself with acid, her ghost is said to roam the corridors. In 1986, when Peter Haworth bought the hotel, he found that the school furniture was still in storage in the cellars. In 2005 the normally quiet Lytham reported accounts of their own Nosferatu. The original victim had been a 38 year old owner of a French eatery who had been chatting in French to a male customer, when he suddenly lunged and sunk his teeth into her neck. Locals were enraged to discover that a further woman had been attacked in a bar. Nicknames have included Dracula and Le Fang, the reports even made it to the national newspapers. The man behind the sucking attacks is described as well dressed and 5ft 8in tall with very dark, short hair, as of yet he has not been cau...