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Thornton Cleveleys, Victoria Road East c.1960
Photo ref: T307020
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More about this scene

The parade of shops (left) proclaims that a once quiet seaside village is becoming a busy township - we can see Ellwood's, the Midland Bank, a chemist, and a newsagent and tobacconist. Regular bus services came about rapidly; Victoria Road was the main route. It was once known as Ramper, a high dyke built (along with the draining of Thornton Marsh) to keep back the sea. The eastern end of the road leads to the restored Marsh windmill and its village complex, which was opened by the Duke of Westminster.

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A Selection of Memories from Thornton

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 Thornton

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Hi does anybody have any photos of the Verona cinema on fleetwood rd north it's called the Verona hall now and was originally called Thornton cinema shut in the 1950's
Lived just to left in photo; No.97 - great days, went to Millfield.
Does anyone remember the Queens Bars in Cleveleys? I worked there in the cabaret they put on 3 times a night, about 5 acts. I was the 'Jackie' part of Ricky & Jackie Day...and my fondest memory was of a guy called Jimmy Rose, a Country & Western singer, and his lovely wife. Rita...a Birmingham couple....I wonder where they are now, and what the Queens Bars site looks like now...probably a shopping mall.
Well actually it is any dates up to & beyond 1960.  Born in 1951, I recognise the view of how the avenue looked before all the bungalows were built on the west side.  We used to walk to Cleveleys through the 'paddy fields', full of buttercups & mayflowers.  When we reached Rowlands Farm (Rowlands Lane now) we'd risk our lives cimbing in the tumbledown farmhouse & make dens. Great days.