South Shore

18 February 2011

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Below is an interesting card for the auction of the land around, what is now, Manchester Square. Dated 1850, it shows NEW BLACKPOOL, with the promenade and proposed road layout. The land was the property of Joseph Eccles of Mill Hill House, near Blackburn. Interestingly, in 1862 the lifeboat station on Lytham Road opened, within this area. The site was given to them by a Mrs. Eccles. So, it looks like the area was not sold in 1850, or just maybe parts of it

NEW BLACKPOOL

(Formerly called Tullet Hey)

Hemingway’s Manchester Hotel was built at the north end of the new drive from South Shore – Broad Lane – at the north end of the Tullet-Hey Estate

More ‘Street Scenes’ can be found in the A-Z of streets sections

A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, U-Z

In 1784, along the front from the Foxhall, there were no houses, and no

Corner of Lytham Road and South Promenade

Brighton Terrace, Lytham Road

2 Lytham Road – Laurie the chemist

8 Brighton Terrace, which became number 16 Lytham Road and is now number 22 Lytham Road !

9 Lytham Road

40 Lytham Road

99 Lytham Road

Lytham Road

Trafalgar Road, from the promenade

Waterloo Avenue, later renamed Barton Avenue

Wellington Road, corner of Lytham Road

Woodfield Road, from Lytham Road

Woodfield Road, from the Promenade

Saint Chads Road, from the promenade

Crystal Road from the promenade

Crystal Road from the promenade end near Bolton Street

Alexandra Road, from Lytham Road. J. HARBRON, the family grocer on the left corner

Alexandra Road, from the promenade. The Congregational Church on the left has now been replaced with a block of flats.

52 Alexandra Road, corner of Lytham Road. Sign reads, ‘MRS NICHOLS APARTMENTS’. C.1915

Shaw Road, from the Lytham Road end

Shaw Road, from Bolton Street. The vacant plot on the right is now Lowes Court.

Westbourne Avenue, from Waterloo Road

Saint Heliers Road, corner of Waterloo Road

Church Parade on Dean Street, dated 1908

Moore Street looking north

J. Porter, Undertaker, Joiner, Builder

30 Moore Street – 1909

Holy Trinity, Church Street (Bond Street) and Dean Street, South Shore

South Shore Vicarage – Station Road & Promenade

Church Street (Bond Street), South Shore, corner of Dean Street

Advertisement postcard for A. J. Dakin, Church Street, South Shore, now Bond Street

Dated 1903

Rawcliffe Street from Church Street (now Bond Street)

Dean Street, from Bond Street

Boy’s High School South Shore

Now the site of Lytham Road Health Centre, opposite Rawcliffe Street

The house on the far right is still there

Church Street, South Shore, renamed Bond Street

This scene from c.1905 shows the vacant land where the Duple Club is now.

A similar view to the above. The buildings on the left look much the same today.

Kendal Lodge, Holiday Home & Institute – Bond Street

The YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) Holiday Home was opened at 123/125 Church Street (Bond Street), South Shore on the 22nd June 1900

Boots Cash Chemist at the corner of Church Street (later Bond Street) and Station Road. The advertising board states that the date is 1919. Today the upstairs is the Duple Club which moved to the premises in 1966.

A large group of Scottish dancers and musicians on Bond Street near Station Road. The Duple Club can be seen to the left with Boots Cash Chemist below it. The building behind the group is the Baptist Church, now a car park.

Baptist Church which was at the corner of Station Road and Bond Street, now a car park.

Station Road Baptist Church was opened in South Shore on the 12th of May 1910.

An interesting postcard showing a drawing of the New Baptist Church, dated 24th September 1909

The sender writes, ‘This is a photo of our new chapel when finished, it looks alright. The foundation stone laying realized and brought the total up to £ 1.611 8s 0d. ‘

Withnell Rd, from Bond Street looking towards Lytham Road

Station Road from the promenade

The Grand Hotel, Station Road and Lytham Road

An early card with details of the Grand Hotel

South Station, Lytham Road, opposite Station Road, 1905. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company. Now the site of a car park. The wooden station was re-erected as a pair of houses on Rough Heys Lane

South Shore railway station, in Lytham Road, was the area’s first station in 1863. It was renamed Lytham Road station in 1903 and closed in 1916.Burlington Road Halt also served the area from 1913 to 1949, to be replaced by Blackpool Pleasure Beach railway station, on the same site, in 1987

Waterloo Road railway station opened in 1903, later renamed Blackpool South and still in use today