Where ??
This section shows buildings and people which have not been identified
Postmarked BLACKPOOL 1908
Sent to Rev. W.A. Butterworth, Preston.
Postmarked BLACKPOOL 1905
Sent to Mr Wycherley, Woodbine Cottage, Wem, Salop (Shropshire)
No indication of where this was !
The writing on the shop window reads, ‘LILY SKIN CREAM…PERFUMES FOR PRESENTS’
Blackpool 1918-20 – Central
Shops include T. Harris – furniture dealer and B. Crump – Fruiter
Solved !
Looking west along Caunce Street with Cookson Street running across
B. Crump was Kenny’s second-hand shop, now a cleaning services shop, and the premises of T. Harris is now a vacant plot/car park which was a shop selling guitar amps etc
Thanks to Ted Lightbown for his help in locating this one…
Bel Air & Bella Vista, South Shore. Where ?
Solved !
South of the Queen’s Hotel, the terrace with the Viking Hotel and Talk of the Coast
The building on the left with the fancy front can be seen on the Queen’s Hotel picture in the South Shore Promenade section
Thanks to Ted Lightbown for his help in locating this one…
Where is this ? Blackpool written on reverse.
Martin, Post Office – Smith, Dyer Cleaner
South Parade, but where ?
Solved !
North of Waterloo Road, between Commercial Street and Shaw Road
Thanks to Ted Lightbown for his help in locating this one…
Photo by Wiggins, South Parade, Blackpool
Where was this building ?
A. Dean – Dean’s Stores – Blackpool ?
Dealer in high class groceries
Jug & Bottle pub, 1911 – where ?
Layton UMC 1909. It stood on Newton Drive at the corner of Dutton Road, and across the road from St. Kentigern’s RC School. The three gate posts on the left and a gable end of the house on the right, are the same today.
When the United Methodist Church closed, it was taken over as the Victoria Congregational Church (that had originally stood on Victoria Street opposite M&S), demolished for the Hounds Hill Shopping Centre
Looks like a charity building project, but where is it ?
Solved by Ted Lightbown !
It is the stone laying of the Sunday school of Raikes Parade Methodist Church on 17th September 1913
He was able to confirm it by the bay window of the house next door and houses on Hornby Road in the distance as seen on “Street View”
The reverse of this card states that it is Blackpool 1924, but where was it ??
Identified as Skegness !
Newspaper clipping from October 1927
Speedy Bob Lee. Where was this and who was Bob ?
Solved !
“Speedy” Bob Lee, real name Robert Restall, an American speedway rider, used to challenge death several times a day when he rode his spluttering motorcycle round and over and round inside the “Globe of Death” at a side-show Blackpool, England. To give the customers a greater thrill, another motorcyclist sped in the opposite direction. The two machines looped in and out, missing each other by inches, the riders travelling the wall in defiance of gravity by reason of their speed and the accompanying centrifugal force.
Taking part in this hair-raising show was a young English girl who had been more familiar with the music in the Winter Gardens Theatre, beneath the famous Blackpool tower, where she had been a ballet dancer, than with this cacophony of engines and hurtling machines. But Mildred was the wife of Robert Restall and as such accompanied her husband through many countries. The dare-devil Canadian rider from Hamilton, Ontario, and his motorcycling stunts was billed on both sides of the Atlantic-from Toronto to Berlin, from Blackpool to Miami
“Tiny Dot”, Smallest horse in the world. Was she at the Tower Circus ?
The location has been identified as St. James Road, South Shore. The houses in the background look the same today.
