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Maddison Jaizani Makes Her Television Debut

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Maddison Sunshine Al-Jaizani (born on 3 June 1995) is an English actress and model. She is known for her roles as Sophie de Clermont in the Canal+ series Versailles (2015–2018), Odessa in the AMC series Into the Badlands (2017–2019), and Bess Marvin in the CW series Nancy Drew (2019–2023). Jaizani was born in Kensington / Chelsea, London, to an English mother and an Iranian father and grew up in Sale, Greater Manchester. She attended Sir John Deane’s College for sixth form. She completed a BTEC Extended Diploma in performing arts at Bury College in 2014. Jaizani made her television debut…

Scream Theatre Schools

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Scream Theatre Schools was established in 1998 in Blackpool. It offers classes in dance, drama, and singing for both children and adults. The school is known for its accredited Arts Award program and its focus on developing students’ confidence and skills in the performing arts. Scream Theatre Schools also has a talent agency component, helping students pursue careers in TV, film, and theatre. The school provides training in acting, dance, and singing, aiming to nurture students’ talent and confidence. It is an accredited Arts Award School. Over the years, the school has expanded its offerings and facilities, including the establishment…

Fairhaven Golf Club Moves to Current Location

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Fairhaven Golf Club was originally a 12-hole course adjacent to Fairhaven Lake in 1892 and founded as a club in 1895. Its time located next to the sea was eventful, having had to contend with the vagaries of the tides on one side and the encroachment from the developers of King Edward School and housing on the other. Fairhaven Golf Club moved half a mile inland to its current location, in what was then Lytham Hall Park, in 1924. As the course was then very flat and without trees, J.A. Steer, the then professional at Blackpool Golf Club and later…

Robert & Gaynor Wynne, a Blackpool Success Story

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A six-figure funding deal from Royal Bank of Scotland has supported businessman and former Blackpool Mayor Robert Wynne, to open his £350,000 pub and micro-brewery in one of the town’s best known buildings. The Brew Room is housed in what was formerly known as The Blue Room, the building where Blackpool Football Club was originally…

Lytham Cottage Hospital Becomes Clifton Hospital

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LYTHAM HOSPITAL – THE FIRST IN THE FYLDE Thursday August 3rd, 1871, was a red-letter day in Lytham. Shortly after 11 am a procession of about 50 gentleman formed in the Market Square and headed by the band of the 29th (Lytham) Rifle Volunteers, proceeded along Clifton Street for the official opening at noon of the new hospital – the first in the Fylde. The proposal for a hospital had been talked about for some years and the recent developments in anaesthetics and antiseptics were opening up new avenues in surgery. In 1870 there was an outbreak of low fever…

Alicia School of Dancing in St Annes

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From the 1920s through to the 1960s, a small studio behind 123 St Andrews Road South in St Annes was home to Alicia’s School of Dancing, a cornerstone of the town’s performing arts scene. Founded by Alicia Cottrell, the school offered lessons in ballet, tap, and modern dance, nurturing hundreds of local children who would go on to perform on stage at festivals and community events across the Fylde Coast. Alicia Cottrell’s influence on dance in the area was profound. Known for her dedication and exacting standards, she also founded the Lytham St Annes Dance Festival, which became an important…

Lytham Institute & Lytham Library

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Lytham library was built originally as a Mechanics Institute. It included a small library of books and a reading room and opened on 30 August 1878. The building was extended in 1898 to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, including a new reading room, gymnasium and classrooms. The extension was opened by the Duke of Norfolk. In 1922 the library became part of the Municipal Borough of Lytham St Annes with the amalgamation of St Anne’s on the Sea and Lytham Urban District Councils. In 1974 the administration of the library was taken over by Lancashire County Council. In Buildings of…

Lytham St Annes Borough Council – Town Hall

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Fylde Borough Council was established on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a result of the merging of three former local authorities: Lytham St Annes Borough Council, Kirkham Urban District Council, and Fylde Rural District Council. The council’s main administrative building is the former Southdown Hydro Hotel, which was purchased in 1925 to serve as the town hall after the merger of Lytham and St Annes The district was named Fylde after the coastal plan. It was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. The…

Mr. Hincksman’s Chapel / Bath Street Methodist Church

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Mr. Hincksman’s Chapel, later known as Bath Street Methodist Church, was a Wesleyan chapel built in Lytham in 1846, funded largely by Thomas Crouch Hincksman, a Preston cotton spinner. The origins of Methodism in Lytham started from a cottage in Bath Street, which was a licensed preaching house. In 1846 a chapel which could accommodate 200 worshippers was built in Bath Street by T.C. Hincksman but by 1868 this was not large enough to hold all the summer visitors and it was replaced in 1868 by much large premises on Park Street. It was subsequently used as the first Lytham…

Tramway Shelter 1923 in Lytham St Annes

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Tramway shelter 23 in Lytham St Annes, originally built in 1923 by John Heap & Sons, is a notable relic from the former tramway that once connected Lytham and Blackpool via St. Annes. It served as a passenger shelter for both trams and later, buses, until road changes in the mid-1990s rendered it disused. The shelter was restored in 2009 by Fylde Borough Council and Lytham Civic Society and remains a local landmark, though no longer used for public transport. The shelter was built in 1923 by John Heap & Sons at the request of the Lytham St. Annes Borough…