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 Blackburn, Nurses' Home 1899 (ref. 43480) | This is the nurses' home at the local hospital. Nurses were unmarried and there were strict regulations governing their behaviour, both on and off duty. Gentlemen callers were not allowed beyond the foyer, under any circumstances whatsoever. Some nurses' homes even had resort to wrapping barbed wire around drainpipes. |  Add your own Memory Add to your Album |
 Blackpool, Central Promenade c1955 (ref. B116017) | The most visitors to arrive on one day by train occurred in July 1945. With travel restrictions lifted, no less than 102,889 trippers passed through the town's three railway stations. No one knows how many others came by car, bus or motorcycle. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, the South Jetty from the Wellington Hotel 1890 (ref. 22881) | As with many seaside resorts, one of the popular attractions was a trip in a boat. At Blackpool, sailing boats were often loaded and unloaded by means of portable gangways, one of which is in the picture. In the background is the North Pier, with an excursion steamer alongside its landing stage. This picture was taken from the South Jetty. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Winter Gardens 1894 (ref. 33954) | Despite the grand appearance of the building, the acoustics in the Winter Gardens pavilion were suspect. When Sarah Bernhardt was engaged to play the female lead in 'The Lady of the Camellias', she had so much difficulty in making herself heard that she walked out at the end of the first act and never went back. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, the Palatine Hotel 1890 (ref. 22891) | The Palatine Hotel was one of the largest in the resort with 120 beds, though the Metropole and the hydropathic establishments were bigger. The County, Clifton, and Palatine were in a similar price range, and in 1906 their daily pension rate (room, meals and all services) was 8s 6d a day. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Big Wheel 1896 (ref. 38865) | Built next to the Winter Gardens in 1896 in an attempt to compete with the Tower, the 220ft Gigantic Wheel was a financial disaster. The ride cost 6d and lasted for one complete revolution of the wheel. However, every time one of the cars reached the bottom the wheel was stopped while it was unloaded and reloaded. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, the Wheel 1896 (ref. 38867) | Fancy a thing like this at the bottom of the garden? Each of the thirty cars held thirty passengers, and the ride lasted for about fifteen minutes. Losses were so great that as early as 1901 the Gardens seriously considered dismantling the brute, and were only stopped from doing so because the costs would prove prohibitive. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Abingdon Street 1890 (ref. 22894) | This photograph includes the Winter Gardens in the background. In 1887, William Holland was appointed manager. Holland had worked in the rough and tumble of the London music hall business, and his philosophy was simple: to give holiday makers the sort of entertainments they wanted, no matter how crass. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Church Street 1901 (ref. 47039) | James Duckworth Ltd, the grocery and provision chain, had a branch in this street, and others in Waterloo Road and Whitegate Drive. It was possible to place a grocery order at your local Duckworth branch, who would then arrange for one of the Blackpool shops to deliver it to your holiday accommodation in time for your arrival. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Dean Street 1901 (ref. 47040) | Most of the Wakes Week holiday-makers provided their own food, which was then cooked for them by the landlady; each room would have its own food locker in the dining room. There were plenty of inexpensive boarding houses charging only a shilling or two per night. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Uncle Tom's Cabin 1906 (ref. 53875) | In its heyday, Uncle Tom's Cabin offered dancing to its own orchestra, refreshments, and American Portraits 'taken and finished while you wait'. On the roof are three wooden figures representing Uncle Tom, Eva and Topsy. Shortly after this picture was taken in 1906, cliff erosion caused a part of the building to collapse; the remainder was demolished in 1907. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, North Promenade 1906 (ref. 53874) | A Dreadnought tramcar approaches the terminus at Queen's Gate. At this time the Blackpool and Fleetwood tramway systems were separate concerns, and even lacked a connecting line. Those wishing to continue north had to walk a few yards to the Fleetwood terminus and join a tram there. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Central Pier 1906 (ref. 53855) | This shows the new pavilion on the Central Pier. It is hard to believe that when this pier was built, it was so far away from the town centre that the revenue it generated fell far short of what had been anticipated. To boost business, the pier operated excursions by steamer to Southport. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, North Shore c1955 (ref. B116014) | The cliff walk along the North Shore. The walk features heavily in the annual illuminations; many of the set pieces are erected along it. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, from the South Jetty 1890 (ref. 22868) | As with many seaside resorts, one of the popular attractions was a trip in a boat. At Blackpool, sailing boats were often loaded and unloaded by means of portable gangways, one of which is in the picture. In the background is the North Pier, with an excursion steamer alongside its landing stage. This picture was taken from the South Jetty. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Cliff Walk, North Shore c1955 (ref. B116022) | The cliff walk and the Gynn tram stop. The Gynn was a busy junction in the heyday of the tramway system. There was a line from here to the North Station, and it was also here that the trams belonging to Lytham St Anne's Corporation terminated. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Central Beach 1890 (ref. 22870) | As well as portable gangways, boat-carts were also used to get trippers to and from the sailing boats. In this picture, a boat-cart awaits the call to action, while the bathing machine concession has at least one paying customer in the water. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, North Shore 1890 (ref. 22886) | Bathing machines await customers. A typical machine had a door and a pair of shafts at either end. The lady would enter from the landward side, whilst the horse was attached to the seaward end. Once in the water, the lady, suitably attired to protect her modesty, would leave the machine and bathe. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Central Pier 1896 (ref. 38852) | The tide is in, the sea is calm and the bathing machines have nowhere to go except on the Promenade. This picture was taken from the Central Pier and gives us an idea of what the town's sea defences looked like prior to the widening of the Promenade and the construction of the sea wall we all know and love today. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
 Blackpool, Imperial Hydropathic Establishment 1890 (ref. 22890) | The hydropathic craze swept Britain from the 1840s onwards, when a German practitioner named Vincenz Priessnitz developed a series of treatments using ordinary cold water, thus saving the need to visit a spa town. There were dozens of treatments, some including the use of electricity. | Add your own MemoryAdd to your Album |
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