Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

Running various social media groups - I tend to share and like a lot of content so was delighted last year to discover the following  http://www.lancasterwalkstalksandtours.co.uk/ Lancaster Walks, Talks & Tours principal guide is Gregory Wright. With a background in performing arts, and over twenty years experience in the world of tourism, Gregory provides informed historical narratives in an entertaining and memorable manner.   Bespoke guided walks, illustrated talks and themed tours, exploring the rich history of the City of Lancaster and the surrounding district. Well I just had to visit and managed to drag along fellow Lapis members Janet and Paul ...   Lancaster Castle   is a medieval castle in Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire . Its early history is unclear, but may have been founded in the 11th century on the site of a Roman fort overlooking a crossing of the River Lune . In 1164, the Honour of Lancas...

Image drawn by Brian Hughes Devonshire Road was a community hospital that offered both inpatient and outpatient facilities to residents of Blackpool and its surrounding areas. The hospital housed the Fylde Coast's Dermatology Services and had a Renal Dialysis Unit, a Rehabilitation Ward, Dermatology Ward and a Clinical Skills Laboratory on site. 1891 Blackpool Isolation Hospital was opened on Devonshire Road on the 7 th of July. This original sanatorium, behind the cemetery, was demolished in 1906 after being kept briefly for smallpox isolation. The new hospital was formally opened on the 26 th of March on the opposite corner of Devonshire Road and Talbot Road. Still called Blackpool Sanatorium, it soon became known as Devonshire Road Infectious Diseases Hospital until 1954; locals knew it as “The Fever Hospital”. The hospital was finally demolished in 2007. As some of you know I run the popular group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/blackpoolspast/ wh...

Old and new... The RED BOX Quarter is set within a substantial and attractive Grade II listed former Post Office and Royal Mail delivery building set on a site of 0.93 acres. The name has been taken from its former use and the existing red phone boxes to its entrance. The former Post Office has a Renaissance style façade fronting on to Abingdon Street and has retained its charm with many existing features both internally and externally. This provides the main entrance into the new retail and leisure development. From the brilliant  https://liveblackpool.info/about/town-centre/blackpool-post-office/ office of Jane Littlewood ..we have the following from 2018 Blackpool Post Office is set for a transformation. New life is to be breathed into the old building as it’s developed into the Red Box Quarter. New designs were revealed in January 2018, showing how Blackpool’s former main Post Office could be transformed into a contemporary shopping and leisure...

Samlesbury Hall is a historic house in Samlesbury , Lancashire , England, six miles (10 km) east of Preston. It was built in 1325 by Gilbert de Southworth (b. 1270), and was the primary home of the Southworth family until the early 17th century. Samlesbury Hall may have been built to replace an earlier building destroyed during a raid by the Scots, during The Great Raid of 1322 . The hall has been many things in its past including a public house and a girls' boarding school, but since 1925, when it was saved from being demolished for its timber, it has been administered by a registered charitable trust , the Samlesbury Hall Trust. This Grade I listed medieval manor house attracts more than 50,000 visitors each year. Samlesbury Hall is open to the public daily except on Saturdays. Before being owned by the Southworths, Samlesbury manor belonged to the d'Ewyas family. Gilbert de Southworth of Warrington acquired half of the manor by marriage ...

I was asked tonight would I like to come and take some pictures of an old church ..by my  friend Will Ritchie and owner of  https://thebplbible.co.uk/ Little did I know this would be a surprise with a fantastic old church, ITV television and Bobby Ball !! Mark was inspired to set up Amazing Graze in 2012 after turning his life around from a background of drink, drugs and petty crime. Within three months, the Christian goodwill group was serving food and preaching gospel to more than 300 rough sleepers per week. They used to meet every Friday and Saturday night at their headquarters on Boothley Road, where they serve up more than 20,000 hearty plates of food to Blackpool’s poorest and most disenfranchised residents.  All of the group’s volunteers are trained in health and social care and first aid, and are dedicated to supporting homeless people with drug and alcohol problems through every step of their recovery. According to Mark, there are a number of fact...