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Picture the sight, 20,000 people eagerly watching the event of the year on 21st May 1863. They had arrived from far and wide, many by train into North Statio...

One of the last women to be hanged in Great Britain was Louisa Merrifield of Devonshire Road, Blackpool. She was executed by the state inside Manchester’s St...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a pioneer of Blackpool’s entertainment industry and became the resort’s first and most popular landmark for over half a century. The or...

Blackpool is famous for its Illuminations, a fantastic light display which yearly draws crowds from all around the country. Since the mid-1920s Blackpool Cou...

110 years ago, a dreadful crime was perpetrated in the centre of Blackpool. A young man as driven to murder by a demanding wife and an over-baring mother in ...

Sir Hiram Steven Maxim was born in Sangerville, Maine, USA on February 5th 1840. He became a naturalised British subject and was knighted by Queen Victoria i...

When writing his ‘History of Blackpool’ back in 1837, William Thornber included reference to the shipwrecks along the coast. He commented that ‘a full list o...

“In the memory of even the oldest inhabitant of Blackpool, does not exist a remembrance of such a sad and fearfully tragic event as that which took place on ...

May 8th, 1945 VE Day! The day the Second World War hostilities officially ceased. It was a time of relief, huge happiness and massive celebration. The King a...

On the night of 25/26 July 1944 a shocking event took place on Blackpool’s Promenade which would dominate the headlines in Blackpool’s newspaper for many day...

Aint misbehaving, Little White Lies, When the Guard are on Parade, Are We Downhearted? No! Lazybones, these are just some of the hundreds of titles of the so...

On Sunday the 11th February 1894, the ocean-going steamer ‘Huntcliffe’ departed from Liverpool after discharging her cargo of cotton from the American Deep S...

It would be appropriate now to introduce you to The Headless Ghost of Whitegate Lane. The ghost made its appearance just before Christmas in 1807 on a stretc...

The 11½ mile single track railway was completed in two stages. The Garstang & Pilling Railway Company completed the 7½ mile track from Garstang to Pilling in...

The N-Vision’s site at Squires Gate, Blackpool, is a beacon of support and practical help for people from the Fylde Coast who live with impaired sight. The b...

The history of the Blackpool lifeboat is characterised with the ‘manly doings’ and bravery in the teeth of a relentless sea. However little is written of the...

The circus first came to town, not in 1894 at Blackpool Tower, but in 1868 when early records mention the Pinders Touring Show. This was followed in the 1870...

'Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink' so went the song of the ancient mariner, or something like that. It is true that the briny seas at Blackpoo...

Situated adjacent to the South Pier at Blackpool was the open- air swimming bath. Elliptical in form, it was designed in the renaissance style of architectur...

Long before the mobile phone revolution and the ‘selfie sticks’ people recorded meetings of the famous by collecting their autographs. According to some sour...