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...
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...
Born Ballinasloe Co Galway 1856. Died Blackpool Aug 22 1914 The compilation of his life could not have completed without the help and interaction of Peter Charlton of the British Music Hall Society. Joseph...
Intro: The Ellis family members are only largely known as practitioners of weird and wonderful sounding concepts such as phrenology, psychometry, chiromancy etc at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries on the wide and...
THE BIRTH AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST PROMENADE, THE DEFINITION OF THE TOWN, THE FIRST PARLIAMENTARY IMPROVEMENT BILL, THE CRIMEAN WAR, THE BRIDGE OF PEACE Forward Blackpool is my home town. My patronymic...
Actor's Chapel adopted daughter of the American navy Airship blackpool blackpool girl Blackpool North Shore Blackpool Tower Circus. Blenheim Bomber Canon Freshwater children's ballet cushman rice ducker hospital female boxing reporter female flight record freemason Happy Valley High Wire Acts Horatio Nicholls HS Fidelity Jacob Epstein john hayes john wingfield La belle rose Lawrence Wright layton cemetery Louis Souchot Madeleine Cusinard Music Hall North Pier Blackpool On With The Show pantomime phrenology Pierre Bouvet preston girl sanatrorium Stanley Spencer The Flying Alizes The Wallendas Tom Grah Tower Circus Trapeze Acts Wellington Bomber whittingham hospital wray brothers zymotic diseases
