Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

Making Blackpool Better – town centre improvement works ! January update Promenade closure The re-opening of Blackpool Promenade around North Pier has been put back to allow for snagging works to be carried out on roadworks associated with the new tramway extension. The stretch of road between West Street and Queens Square was due to reopen on Monday 21 January but will now remain closed until the end of February. The delay does not affect the completion date of all other roadworks associated with the tramway extension. Talbot Road works The works on Talbot Road between the Promenade and Dickson Road are on schedule for completion by the end of the February 2019. The junction of Abingdon Street and Talbot Road remains open. Signed diversion routes remain in place and there is pedestrian access to all businesses which are open as usual. Traffic can leave the Promenade at Church Street to access West Street car park. Blackpool Council , We apologise for any inconvenien

Taken in 2018 ( in better weather !! )  Guess the locations !! 

A visit to Blackpool Tower this time in 2013 

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

Views from one of my visits to the Blackpool Tower in 2011

It is a building which has mattered since it opened as The Theatre Royal and Assembly Rooms in 1868, later becoming the Free Library in 1880. Today we know it as Yates's, the wine lodge founded by Peter Yates, who, having rented part of the premises two years earlier, bought the freehold of the famous octagonal building in 1896. It's effectively an island, bordered by Talbot Road, Clifton Street and Abingdon Street, the estate mapped out by Thomas Clifton in the early 19th century, a doctor's house being here in the 1840s. Read more at: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/history-goes-up-in-smoke-1-374051 It is a building which has mattered since it opened as The Theatre Royal and Assembly Rooms in 1868, later becoming the Free Library in 1880. Today we know it as Yates's, the wine lodge founded by Peter Yates, who, having rented part of the premises two years earlier, bought the freehold of the famous octagonal building in 1896. It's effectively

Following on from my last post on the works going on in town - have a gander to bring yourself up to speed... https://juliettegregsonheritagephotographer.blogspot.com/2018/05/tram-tracks-toilets.html Realised that at some point Wilkinson's will be going which is such a great spot to get shots from ...and cheap parking as well !   Had some Christmas Vouchers so ventured into town and of course took my camera with me .. The above from today on new year's eve 2018  Below from hopefully more or less the same spot 2013!  Will try in the next week or two grab some up to date shots from the ones I did back in 2013