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In 1903 it was renamed South Shore Lytham Road. [1] In that same year the express Marton Line from Kirkham was built with a new Waterloo Road railway station at its junction with the Lytham line. The new station was just 300 yards (300 m) north of South Shore station, whose days were then numbered, closing in 1916.
The road enters Blackpool on the coast at Starr Gate, near Blackpool Airport, about 7 miles (11 km) from Lytham.It continues north up the coast for a further 7 miles (11 km), as Blackpool Promenade (called the Queen's Promenade after Gynn Square), passing through the town centre as well as many well-known landmarks, including the Pleasure Beach, the Sandcastle Waterpark, Blackpool Tower and ...
The Lytham Cottage Hospital and Convalescent Home, which was instituted for the relief of the poor when suffering from sickness or accident, was funded by Colonel John Talbot Clifton, Squire of Lytham, at an original cost of £1,200 and opened in 1871. [1] The original building was a two-storey structure with four wards containing 16 beds.
Construction of a new station started in 2001, completing in 2003, The site, down the slipway at the end of Eastbank Road in St Annes, was exactly where the first St Annes lifeboat had been launched 120 years previously. [2] In 2018, Lytham St Annes station received a new Shannon-class lifeboat, 13-24 Barbara Anne (ON 1331). Costing £2 ...
The road name Station Road attests to the fact that the original station was about 500 metres east of the present one; a fire station now stands on the spot. The present station in Ballam Road was opened in 1863 when the separate Blackpool and Lytham Railway opened. The Ballam road station was originally a terminus, until 1874 when it was ...
The original Lytham railway station was the Lytham terminus of a branch of the Preston and Wyre Joint Railway from Kirkham in Lancashire, England. It opened, along with the branch, on 16 February 1846; the road it was located in became known as Station Road. It was built in a Renaissance style from Longridge stone. A branch was also built to ...
Lytham St Annes Town Hall is a municipal building on the South Promenade in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England. The structure, which is used as the headquarters of Fylde Borough Council, is a locally listed building.
The FY postcode area, also known as the Blackpool postcode area, [2] is a group of eight postcode districts in Lancashire, North West England.The districts cover the entire borough of Blackpool and the western parts of the boroughs of Wyre and Fylde.