Blackpool, Bailey's Hotel 1890
Photo ref: 22885
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Photo ref: 22885
Photo of Blackpool, Bailey's Hotel 1890

More about this scene

Bailey's Hotel was the first to accommodate visitors to Blackpool, along with Bennett's and Yorkshire House. The scene is Central Beach. J Wolfe and R Penswick were the bathing machine proprietors. These lumbering boxes on wheels were obligatory for swimmers. The sides were used for advertising Pear's soap, Hovis bread and Jones's sewing machines.

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Now the Metropole, the only hotel 'on' the promenade.