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Roundhouse
I went to what we used to call the school on the hill. I lived in Knott End and sometimes when we were rich we'd go to school on the bus, but if not it was your two feet that got you there, anyway my memory relates to the roundhouse, it was a toffee shop when we were kids, things you could get for a penny and when you had tuppence, well I guess you were rich, anyway when I had bus money for coming home after school and depending on the weather, if it was nice I would give in to temptation and nip into the roundhouse. Trying to make a selection from all the toffees and treats was a ...read more here
A memory of Preesall contributed by Eric Butler
Crabbing
Iam not sure how close Iam on the date, however when we where kids, me and my friends would spend most of the day in the summer holidays with string and safety pin, stick some muscle meat on it from the muscle bed from the other side of the jetty, and then we'd tie a stone to the string and then lower this down the side of the jetty to catch an unexpecting crab, you had to be very careful pulling it up from the water as sometimes the crab would fall back in the water, then you'd have to start again, but we would have great fun watching the crabs running all over the place, especially when the tourists where ...read more here
A memory of Knott End-On-Sea contributed by Eric Butler
Days gone by
I lived in Fleetwood from around 1948 - 1952. My dad was in the army and we lived in the Drill Hall in (Ithink) Preston Street. I can remember going to the library nearby and playing on the beach near some piers. There was a young man who was unfortunate who used to dig very deep holes in the sand and chase us kids with his shovel when we taunted him (how cruel are kids). I went to Fleetwood Grammar School for a year before we moved south. I lived in Queens Terrace for awhile and loved looking out of the bedroom window at the cottages on Knott End. My name then was Ann Varley, and ...read more here
A memory of Fleetwood contributed by Ann Levers
Fleetwood ferry
My great-grandfather, Thomas Newton Croft, a member of the family that founded the Fleetwood to Knott End ferry, managed it for the local council from c.1896 to his death in 1915. I am told that my grandmother, Alice, used to do cartwheels to entertain the passengers waiting for the boat to come in. The service was re-privatised a few years ago. Being involved in marine business myself I like to refer to it as "the family shipping line"!
A memory of Fleetwood contributed by John Dearing
Extracts From Over Wyre & Lancashire books
By catching a bus from Poulton to Great Eccleston it was possible to walk to Dishdolls Café in Out Rawcliffe. No longer an eating place, it was well patronised in its day, and well situated in pleasant country near the River Wyre; it was not far from Meadowcroft, the home of Miss Poole, who opens her garden annually for charity. Rawcliffe Hall was nearby, the home of the outrageous Squire Rawcliffe who burned down a windmill one bonfire night.
An extract from from"The Fylde Photographic Memories".
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.
An extract from from"Blackpool Pocket Album".
This photograph looks towards the seafront
and the pier. Though there are one or two
motorcars around, the scene is relatively
traffic free; people appear to be quite at ease
either walking or standing in the middle
of the road.
An extract from from"Blackpool Pocket Album".
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.
An extract from from"Blackpool Pocket Album".
By the time the railway arrived in Blackpool in 1846, the town was already
a resort attracting several thousand visitors a year. Baileys Hotel, later the
Metropole, had opened in 1776. The first bathing-machines had been imported
by an enterprising inn keeper as early as 1730, though whether or not they
were available for hire on Sundays, as the two machines at Lytham were, so
that the frail could be trundled to and from church, is unknown. One of the
earliest attractions was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which started out as little more than
a wooden hut from which Thomas Parkinson sold sweetmeats and ginger beer
during the summer season. Parkinson appears to have gone under the name of
‘Uncle Tom’, hence the name of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Eventually Parkinson sold out to a man named Taylor. He went into
partnership with another man in order to develop the business, but they did turn
down the chance to buy the field the cabin stood in, and the one next to it, for
just £15. Fate now plays its hand. Some time after Taylor had taken over, a
wooden bust of a negro, thought to be a ship’s figurehead, was washed ashore. By
coincidence, one of the best-selling books of the time was ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’,
so Taylor simply stuck the figurehead on the roof, and added those of Eva and
Topsy, implying that the cabin was in fact named after the hero of the book.
An extract from from"Blackpool Pocket Album".