The Shooting of Madeleine Cuisinaud
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...
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Johnnie Hayes and the unusual story of the HMS Fidelity
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....
Cecilia Wright
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...
More Names and Stories from Blackpool’s History
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...
The Whinney Heys Story
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...
Some Names Associated with the History of Blackpool.
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 Flight of the Mailplane ‘Blackpool’ June 1932
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...
Walter Munroe
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...
Dr Spencer Timothy Hall.
‘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...
The Ellis Family
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...