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Happy days
My name is Eileen Turner. I had a sister named Kathleen Turner. If anyone who went here knows me please contact me, I would love to talk to someone who went there.
My name is Sophia Ufton. I am writing this on behalf of my mom, thanks.
Contributed by sophia turner
Days out in Lytham in the Forties and Fifties
We lived in Preston, Lancashire from 1944 to 1956 and often came here for the day on the bus. My mother preferred Lytham to Blackpool and we spent happy hours on the sands. This picture, taken before the 1st World War, is a view which my father would have seen when he came here as a child - I have a couple of photos of him on the sands with his mother and sister. I can't remember a pier - I think it had gone by the time I started coming to Lytham, and the windmill has since been rebuilt. However, the sands have now gone for ever - all there is between the promenade and the sea is ...read more here
Contributed by Diana Dioszeghy
My days at the Ormerod Home
I believe I went to the Ormerod Home, at the age of about eight or nine, as a result of the Local Authority (Blackpool) having a number of reserved places at this establishment. Homes such as this were built along the sand dunes near Blackpool in order to provide a healthy environment, in which youngsters from the north west could spend their holidays well away from the smoke and grime of the nearby Lancashire cottons towns. In my case, I was the youngest of four children whose father had died just some 5 years earlier. This meant my mother was out working both day and night to make ends meet. I suppose in these days you could say that I was ...read more here
Contributed by Roy Haskett
HAPPY DAYS
WELL I REMEMBER THIS VERY CLEARLY I SPENT SOME OF MY CHILDHOOD DAYS HERE CONVALESANT HOME FOR CHILDREN WE WAS SENT THERE TO CONVELESCE IN THE BRACING SEA AIR FROM POLLUTED INDUSTRIAL TOWNS . NUNS LOOK AFTER US THEY HAD LOVELY CHAPEL I BELIVED IT OPENED 1884 . I WAS THERE BETWEEN 1962 1969 AND I LOVED IT.
Contributed by pauline webb
Extracts From Lytham & Lancashire books
In 1606 the Clifton family of Westby (3 miles to the north)
purchased the manor and estate of Lytham from the Molyneaux
family of Sefton for £4,300 and fanned the coals of patronage into
a comforting source of warmth and security that was to endure for
almost a further 400 years. The 18th-century Lytham Hall (33966,
above), now a Grade I listed building, was the home of the Cliftons
until three-quarters of the way through the 20th century, when the
last squire became the victim of his spendthrift nature and several
unwise investments. Lytham Hall then passed into the hands of the
Guardian Royal Exchange insurance company.
An extract from from"Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories".
The town’s premier shopping area still exhibits the same charm that is evident in these pictures. The photographer’s viewpoint
in both instances is now the entrance to a new piazza. The Ship Hotel on the left is now known as the Ship and Royal.
An extract from from"Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories".
To the west of the pier, Charlie’s Mast can be seen soaring above the promenade. Erected by Charlie Townsend in the 1840s, the
mast stood on the site of the only leading light at the mouth of the river before the channel was lit. The original mast was a wagon
tipped on its side with a pole thrust through the spokes of the wheels.
An extract from from"Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories".
A photograph like this would be impossible to take in the 21st century, but this band of troupers provided many happy hours of
innocent enjoyment for residents and visitors alike. The building in the centre background is the entrance to Lytham Pier.
An extract from from"Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories".
With so few visitors in sight, perhaps this is an early morning view. The posters and the banner underneath the new arch suggest
slightly risqué entertainment.
An extract from from"Lytham St Anne's Town and City Memories".