St Anne's, Lightburne Avenue c.1955
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We are standing in South Promenade, with the Chadwick Hotel on the corner. Lightburn Avenue was named after the second lighthouse at St Anne's. Built of wood, it stood in the sand dunes between Riley Avenue and Lightburn Avenue from 1864 to 1901. After the new Cut Channel was made, gas buoys were used, and the Ribble Port Authorities cut down the timber lighthouse. The first lighthouse of stone shone out before St Anne's had been built. However, in January 1863 this massive, elegantly designed lighthouse built on the double Stanner was undermined by rough seas, and suddenly crumbled and crashed down. George Gillett of Cross Slack farm was gathering mussels at the time, and he witnessed this astonishing sight.
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