Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

I like carparks , but for the reason of getting a different angle for my photography !

1087 The local villages Bispham, Layton, Marton, Carleton, and Staining   are mentioned in the DoomsdayBook, along with Rossall, Thornton, Poulton and Lytham.  Famous people also buried there, Violet Carson of Coronation street, Reginald Dixon band player, Stanley Mortenson football player and Jimmy Clitheroe comedian. Carleton Crematorium In 1936 my local paper the Blackpool Evening Gazette ran a very interesting ghost story about Carleton Crematorium. A Layton taxi driver claimed he had seen the face and body of a green ghost at the gates. This story appeared 70 years ago in my local paper, yet the media still deals with it in a ‘shock’ value way. In the actual article it is pointed out that 5 years previously in 1931 a lonely widow had been battered to death in nearby Robins Lane- perhaps the green face had been this poor woman’s ghost. Looking into the history of the area I was quite surprised to find how much land the crematorium actually covered and d...

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...