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Blackpool, the South Jetty from the Wellington Hotel
The South Jetty – latter to become the Central Pier, opened in May 1868, five years later than the North Pier. Both were designed to extend over the sea to allow people to 'promenade' above the water, and they also served as docking stages for boats.…
Tags: Blackpool, Lancashire, tourism
Blackpool, bathing machines on the beach
Blackpool’s foreshore has always been its main attraction for its visitors. By the 1840s the local landed gentry and the new aspiring middle-classes from Lancashire’s mill-towns visited Blackpool as a means of promoting good health and also meeting…
Tags: bathing machines, Blackpool, Lancashire, tourism
Blackpool, Bailey's Hotel
This hotel was founded in 1776 by a farmer, Lawrence Bailey, and opened to the public in 1785 with 34 bedrooms, three dining rooms and a coffee lounge. It stands at the northern end of Blackpool’s promenade. It is one of only a few hotels in…
Tags: bathing machines, Blackpool, Lancashire, tourism
Jacobite resources in The National Archives - 1745
This collection brings together a range of materials which allow students and teachers to develop their own questions and lines of historical enquiry on the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
Tags: Hanoverian, Jacobite, Lancashire, Lancaster, Stuart, The National Archives, website
Jacobites resources in The National Archives - 1715
This collection brings together a range of materials which allow students and teachers to develop their own questions and lines of historical enquiry on the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715.
Tags: Hanoverian, Jacobite, Lancashire, map, Preston, song, The National Archives, timeline, website
Revealing Histories: remembering slavery
A collaborative project by eight museums in Greater Manchester, created to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in 2007.
Tags: abolitionism, abolitionists, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, slavery, video, website
The World of Flight. Joy-riding and commercial aviation
Article discussing the popularity of pleasure flights at Blackpool, with interior and exterior photographs of bi-planes used on flights between London and the Continent.
There is a reference to flights between Blackpool and Manchester, and also a…
There is a reference to flights between Blackpool and Manchester, and also a…
The History of the Late Rebellion
Pages from a contemporaneous book on the Jacobite rebellion of 1715
Tags: book, Jacobite, Lancashire, Preston
'The Biggest Bluff in the War...a Triumph of Organisation': the Evacuation of Gallipoli
Photographs and descriptive commentary on various stages of the evacuation of Gallipoli, including a reference to the 'Lancashire Landing'. Considerable emphasis on the lack of casualties, which is in stark, yet unremarked, contrast to the huge loss…
The Hull whaler 'Abram'
Launched in Lancaster in 1806, Abram was named after a West Indian planter and merchant. She had a very long career, sailing initially to the British and Danish Virgin Islands of Tortola, St Thomas and St Croix. The documentary record of her voyages…
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British and French prisoners of the Turks: our groups named
Photographs of Prisoners of War, reproduced from a Turkish newspaper, with identifying names and regiments. Includes three members of Lancashire…