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Lytham, Lowther Gardens 1895
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The Lytham Improvement Act of 1847 set up a Board of Commissioners. By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks. By 1880 water was being piped from Grizedale reservoir, and a new railway station was ready in the same year. As development continued, 12 acres of Hungry Moor were presented to Lytham in 1872 by Squire Clifton to be turned into Lowther Gardens, but he stipulated that he must have an uninterrupted view from Lytham Hall to the sea. As far back as 1861, when sheep were grazing on Hungry Moor, it was laid down that the moor was to be kept open and never built upon. The latest adornment to Lowther Gardens is a statue of a Lytham shrimper sculpted by Colin Spoforth, a Lancashire man.

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A Selection of Memories from Lytham

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Lytham

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Kirkham Caravan Park?
I am currently researching my family history, and my grandparents lived at Kirkham Caravan Park around 1952/53. They lived in a small caravan and had their first child, (my mum) at Lytham St Annes Hospital. I have photos of the caravan they lived in, but I am struggling to find any information on any caravan parks in the area. I have found a map which lists a caravan park next to Ribby Hall Leisure Village, ...see more
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Brief Recollections Of My Stay
I was sent to stay at Ormorod House in 1953 or 1954 for 4weeks recuperation following a tonsillectomy because we lived in condemned property at the time. The journey from Walsall took forever, I was 7 years old and very home sick all the time. I used to look at the Tower from the toilet window and cry silently for my mom each night.The smell of beeswax furniture polish brings back memories of the hall ...see more
St Anne's, the Abraham Ormerod Convalescent Home 1929
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Childhood

Me and my brother went to this home around 1954. I would be 7 and he would be 9; we went on the train from Rochdale. I remember mother giving my older brother 2 half crowns - 5 bob for sweets to last a fortnight. I also remember watching someone peeling tats by putting them in a big drum with sharp edges and turning it like a mangle. Unfortunately, I also remember climbing the steps on the slide in the play area and falling ...see more
St Anne's, the Abraham Ormerod Convalescent Home 1929
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Days Out In Lytham In The Forties And Fifties
We lived in Preston, Lancashire from 1944 to 1956 and often came here for the day on the bus. My mother preferred Lytham to Blackpool and we spent happy hours on the sands. This picture, taken before the 1st World War, is a view which my father would have seen when he came here as a child - I have a couple of photos of him on the sands with his mother and sister. I can't remember a pier - ...see more
Lytham, Sands 1907
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