Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

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 caught. It is believed that there w

Chepstow Castle, located in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, in Wales, on top of cliffs overlooking the River Wye, is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain. I very much intend to visit again when back in Wales

With thanks to the following - Stephen Mercer of http://www.supernaturalevents.co.uk/ who runs the most excellent and informative tours, Andrea C Thomas and her lovely Husband of http://www.raikeshallblackpool.co.uk/   and of course me ! https://www.facebook.com/Juliette-W-Gregson-Photography-206453256037395/     Click the links for more Information about what lies in the depths of history and heritage !  HASSRA Formed in 1935 has traditionally served government departments concerned with health and social security, becoming the Health and Social Security Recreational Association in 1969, but now simply known as HASSRA - and they organize some rather brilliant events... First a little history about the Hall which is also Grade 2 listed. Raikes Hall was built in 1760 by William Boucher. Originally a family home with servant quarters, stables and gardens the Hall became a convent in 1860. Myths exist to this day of one of the Sisters of the Holy Child drowning in the lake within