Max Erard and Zona Vevey ….& Co… https://www.tumblr.com/footlightnotes/39830711458/husband-and-wife-max-erard-and-zona-vevey : ‘Husband and wife, Max Erard and Zona Vevey composer/entertainer at the piano and singer (photo: unknown, possibly Henderson & Co, Rochdale, circa 1912).’ In the...
Bispham Cliffs. Cover image and text from the Blackpool Herald April 3rd 1914. Blackpool’s Favourite Natural Promenade in Jeopardy Erosion Continues at Alarming Rate ‘When will the authorities attempt to do something to preserve...
The featured image of 216 Whitegate Drive is with the kind permission of the Kensington Foundation. The address as given in the newspapers for the St Margaret’s Home for Friendless Girls, though the similar,...
Joseph Hopwood was born in Manchester in 1838 and died in Blackpool on February 13th 1913 after living in the town for 40 years. A veteran of Britain’s imperialistic age, he had been over...
Edited and extended with a second part June 2024 With thanks to Robert Leach for the cover image. Inflation figures on all amounts relate to 2023 Brief Summary; The Sanatorium was first established in...
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...
Lawrence Wright showman, song writer and publisher, ‘was to popular music as was as Edward Elgar was to classical music,’ spoken no doubt with the concept of the Land of Hope and Glory during...
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...
31/12/2022 is the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the HMS Fidelity. When the ship was torpedoed and sunk, among the crew was Johnnie (Jack) Hayes, Blackpool resident and former pupil of Palatine school....
Whinney Heys as the site of the existing Victoria Hospital, and the name of the perimeter road within which the Hospital is contained, belies the fact that it was once open land, resplendently yellow...
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