can anyone translate what it says? i can read the richard edwards... thanks

came across this knife from the palace hotel when did it get knocked down?

I believe this to have been taken around 1958/59

In this article from Building News (August 1907), it describes the construction of a new house in Birkdale. Nothing really remarkable about that, until you realise it is a house designed by the man responsible for most of the beautiful cinemas that once adorned Lord Street and the iconic Royal...

http://www.skemheritage.org.uk /pics/Watermarked/Chapel%20hou se.jpg I came across this picture on the skem heritage site. Was There a brewery in Birkdale many years ago?.

Hi Was Little London Lane what we now would call Sussex Road? What year where the houses built? See attachment for map which make me believe that, Kensington road is maybe the road along the railway line.

I found this account of life in Blowick in the 1930s & 40s by a gentleman called Anthony Baker who now lives in Australia. It contains a few inaccuracies (eg - Blackpool being on the other side of Morecambe Bay) but makes interesting references to local shops & the gas works. Click on the...

Does anyone remember in the 80's (and maybe before) there was a paddling pool for kids somewhere round Princess park. I'm sure it was near the sea bathing lake and the boating lake, I can picture it vaguely but I'm trying to place it!

How many of you remember Coultons bakery on the corner of Duke Street and Shakespeare Street. At one point there must have been around 250 people working there in its heyday. I worked there as a driver for around 6 years and was there when it closed in 1973. Along with a few other drivers I was...

who can remember the hollands factory in virginia st?, i worked there as a long distance driver in 1952, they had a fleet of bedford trucks, & had to paint them in all different colours because they were known to police forces all over england, scotland & wales as hell drivers. the problem with the...

It won't be the same without the old factory.

Here is the rapid removal of Churchtown Library. The lighter bits of wood on the building frame are previous / historic repairs to the rotten timber.

As it was destroyed by fire overnight, this seems a good moment to gather together memories of the Kingsway Club - so let's have them......

As i have just moved quiet close to the park, i was wondering has the park always been a park??? Does anyone know any history on it??

anyone worked there in 1963

This photo has been donated by Tony Rimmer ;) Taken in approx 1957/58 at Marshside Church Hall

does anyone know what happened to Tom? as teenagers we grew up together in Linaker st until Tom joined the R.A.F & when he was demobbed he had become a hairdresser & at one time had two ladies salons in the town, one in eastbank st & another one in leicester st, the last time i saw him he had a...

Not sure of the exact year of this picture. Found it while going through my mums old photos.

i can remember a few of the shops that were on Lord street many years ago, but have forgotten the names of a lot of them,here are the ones i remember, Sissons, Matti & Tissots, Marshall & Snelgroves,Kardomah,Alexanders ,Fletchers, & Kay & Foley, can't remember any more.

With any luck, I've attached a photograph. Have I got the names right? Charlie Moore, Stan Rimmer, Bill Cooke, Jack Howard, Max Davies, Tom Wright, Brian Lee. Keith Mason, Paul Goldstraw, Frank Simm, John Fairhurst (captain) Rev. Jim Hamilton, Joe Porter, Norman Wright. Dennis Hall (scorer)

It was just after 12 noon on Saturday 25th of October 2014 that we arrived at Segar’s farm just off the coast road at Ainsdale to meet Mrs Joan Braid, now in her 80s, brought up on the farm and still living there, the only surviving witness to the disastrous B 24H Liberator crash which occurred on...

I do know :)

just scanned some old pictures I had of a trip out to the wreck ... the wreck lies about a mile out from Formby point , its right on the low spring tide point and its under water most of the year ..