JOHN WRAY
1841-1913 LAYTON CEMETERY REGISTRAR 1873-1913 Compiled by Colin Reed. Published September 2023. The accommodation, as it is today, provided, in the beginning, for the resident Registrar at the cemetery site in Layton, Blackpool. Thanks...
Soldier, preacher, politician, lawyer, historian, traveller, public speaker, lecturer, champion of his race and stern critic of the established inertia towards the resolution of worldwide slavery, especially within the American and African continents. Born...
Pauline Rivers Danseuse, Maitresse de ballet, choreographer and creator of the lasting children’s ballet at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom. In the theatre industry publication, the Era of 27th October 1926; ‘Madame Pauline Rivers is...
As the suspicion of the Church towards the stage persisted, the Actress could always say to the Bishop with innuendo, “…..” The creation of an Actors’ Chapel within the church of St Stephen’s in...
Of The Flying Alizés Blackpool June 1938 An Account of the Tragedy of Love’s Mutual Selfishness Madeleine is a member of the Flying Alizés trapeze act performing for the summer season at the Tower...
Opera singer, vaudeville entertainer, sports reporter, aviatrix and adopted daughter of the US Navy. Introduction While researching the life of Cecilia Loftus, vaudeville artiste and famed mimic, who had an education at Layton convent...
Pioneering surgeon, Dr Charles Clay; Blackpool’s first Chief Constable John Dereham; tramway engineers John and Angus Cameron; Alice Ashworth, last landlady of the original Gynn Hotel. Dr Charles Clay Eminent physician, surgeon and gynaecologist...
David and Maria Vero Referring to the grave at Layton cemetery Blackpool, a little bit of research shows that both David and Maria Vero were from Dewsbury and both, it seems evident, possessed a...
The Spartan mail plane ‘Blackpool’ which set off from Blackpool Stanley Park airport at 5.35pm on Wednesday 15th June 1932 on its way to Karachi, had a special significance for the town. As a mail...
‘Possessing a nature of intense tenderness and a poetic sensibility peculiarly attractive, with a sympathy for suffering in every form, small wonder that Spencer Hall was admired and loved by all who came within...
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