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no.4640

Abingdon Street and an Open Tour Tram 1913

1913

Looking north west up Abingdon Street from Church Street. St Johns church entrance gate on right. Towers in distance are the Sacred Heart Church and the Town Hall on the left. Circular tour tram in foreground is waiting for a second tram to approach on the single track. A large hay wagon is in the middle. Various hand carts and one car. Cat or dog running across the road. Shop signs including G Schofield Confectioner. Duckworth & Son Gowns and Furs. Dyers, Hair cutting, Tobacco, Clock Repairs. Posters for Tower and The Palace. Mr John Duxburry Blackpool Free Church Council.

https://www.sankeyphotoarchive.uk/collection/view/?id=1801

no.4640

Abingdon Street and an Open Tour Tram 1913

1913

Looking north west up Abingdon Street from Church Street. St Johns church entrance gate on right. Towers in distance are the Sacred Heart Church and the Town Hall on the left. Circular tour tram in foreground is waiting for a second tram to approach on the single track. A large hay wagon is in the middle. Various hand carts and one car. Cat or dog running across the road. Shop signs including G Schofield Confectioner. Duckworth & Son Gowns and Furs. Dyers, Hair cutting, Tobacco, Clock Repairs. Posters for Tower and The Palace. Mr John Duxburry Blackpool Free Church Council.

Location: Blackpool Cumbria Archives Reference: BDB 86/1/6569
Sankey Number: 4640

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Album Number: Album 16 4200-4500 Blackpool

Page Number: 21

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4461    Blackpool on the Sands Crowded beach South to Central Pier, bathing huts and boat loading.
4462 Reads Road, (Blackpool) Now Reads Avenue, retail/residential mix leading to Christchurch.
4463    Abingdon Street with Church Street, Blackpool Looking to Talbot Road, Standard Deluxe and Toast rack trams.
4464    Blackpool Big Wheel View over rooftops to the Big Wheel and Winter Gardens from the Alhambra/Palace Theatre
4465    Blackpool Interior of Winter Gardens The Floral Hall before conversion to the Pavilion Theatre
4466    Blackpool Tower Foundation laid 1891, 158m high, Tower cost £65,000 originally
4467    Blackpool Big Wheel Built 1896, 220 feet high, with 30 carriages, until 1928
4468    Blackpool Promenade looking North View to North Pier, Toast Rack tram 69 and Dreadnought 21, and carriages.
4469    Wheel & Winter Gardens from Alhambra/Palace Theatre building, Blackpool A fuller, slightly different version of 4464/4467, almost copy of 4491
4470    Railway Hotel,Talbot Road & Maybell Avenue junction, Blackpool Now Molloy's pub, Maybell Ave now part of Abingdon St, Baptist Tabernacle in the right distance.
4471    Raikes Parade, Blackpool North on residential street to the Wesleyan Methodist Church with car
4473    County & Lane Ends Hotel, Blackpool Beside the Alhambra / Palace Theatre on the Promenade (right hand side), closed 1961

Album Number: Album D4 4496-5043

Page Number: 9

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Sankey Number Image Title Location Image Taken Description
4636    Warbreck Road, Blackpool
4639    Queens Gate
4640    Queens Gate, North Shore
4641 Stretton House
4642    Hotel Imperial The Imperial Hydropathic Hotel, on the North Promenade
4643 Queens Gate, North Shore, Blackpool
4644    Sir John Barrow's Monument, Hoad Hill, Ulverston
4645    Dickson Road, looking North
4646 Rutland Gate, North Shore
4647 Brighton Parade, North Shore
4648 Regent Terrace, North Shore
4649 Lansdowne Crescent, Claremont Park
4650 Imperial Terrace, Claremont Park
4651 Lansdowne Crescent, Claremont Park