Blackpool in the Fifties: A memory of Blackpool

Blackpool In The Fifties

A Memory of Blackpool.

I spent many happy holidays in Blackpool as a child. We would set off on a coach from Rochdale it would be either Ellen Smith's or Yelloways There would be a kind of competition as to who would see the Tower first coming near to Blackpool. Then sheer heaven would follow. There was Fairyland Olympia the Pleasure Beach all the delights that Blackpool could offer. One thing has always puzzled me which i cannot seem to get any information about .There was a cafe in the centre of Blackpool called Wells they always had a big pie in the window . I have not heard anything about it since. Can anyone help.? M Kennedy aged 71.

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Hi, There is an interesting collection of invoices in the Blackpool Central Library which were discovered in an attic in Blackpool in recent times. They are all invoices from 1925 ( which is before your time) but they are to a Miss E Wells who ran a confectionery business in Blackpool and I believe had a connection to the cafe. Hounds Hill and 54 Central Beach are amongst the references. It is an amazing collection of all sorts of confectionery from businesses such as Joseph Terry, John Mackintosh and many local Blackpool businesses supplying rock and mineral water! If I find out any more details, I will put a message on. Dee Scott

By deidrescott on Sat May 6th 2017, at 5:28 pm

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Thanks very much for your reply Deirdre Scott I was beginning to think I had imagined the cafe. It was so memorable because they had the giant pie in the window. The memory is still vivid to me now.

By circassion87 on Sat May 6th 2017, at 6:43 pm

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