What is Blackpool early history?
Cale Terry
2025-04-24 23:26:49
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Before the advent of mass tourism, Blackpool was little more than a seaside village with a population numbering little more than a couple of hundred. This all changed however in the wake of the start of the industrial revolution, workers from the big industrial centres of Lancashire such as Manchester, Burnley, Blackburn, Bolton and Preston using the new railways to travel to the seaside. This allowed Blackpool to prosper and within a couple of decades the small village had been completely transformed into something resembling the busy town that it is today. Hotels sprang up to cater for the increased number of holidaymakers visiting the town and the railway station was expanded so that it could cope with the greater demands placed upon it. Indeed, in the 1950s, Blackpool central railway station was the busiest in the world although the advent and increased use of motor vehicles and improved road connections resulted in the closure of this transport hub in the late 1960s.
Tatyana Altenwerth
2025-04-24 20:47:03
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Blackpool's very first reference was in Bispham parish records of a Christening in 1602 when the Fylde Coast was nothing but marshland and the odd building. The information about Blackpool's very early days, it's roads and buildings is limited, but what we do know is that it wasn't until the mid-1700s that Blackpool began to take shape. The earliest tracks linked Preston with the Fylde through marsh land. According to local historians, in October 1655, the people of Great and Little Marton petitioned for permission to build a bridge over the outlet from Marton Mere to the sea – was that bridge the first thoroughfare? In later years, Blackpool gained access to the wider county via a private road constructed by Thomas Clifton and Henry Houghton, which began in 1721. Lancashire was the last of the ancient shire counties to be created for governmental purposes. This map appeared more than a century after the first known map of our county and includes Blackpool in its earliest days. There has been an inn on the site of the The Clifton Hotel in Talbot Square since 1750. It faces Talbot Square which was one of the earliest developments in Blackpool.
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