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The Adelphi and Post Office Hotel and Asia Alley Fusion Buffet

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]The original Adelphi Hotel in Blackpool, located on Church Street, was built in 1835 by Esau Carter, believed to be Blackpool’s first postman. The hotel was later rebuilt by Catterall & Swarbrick, local brewers, in 1923, and featured a white tiled exterior, some of which can still be seen in Adelphi Street. A blue plaque on Church Street commemorates the hotel’s history and the story of Esau Carter, according to the Open Plaques website. In 2025, the building became the Trend Shawarma Restaurant. From sizzling shawarmas to freshly grilled meats, colourful mezes and traditional desserts, The restaurant offers an…

Poulton’s Moorland Tennis Club

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Trading under the name of Moorland Tennis Club today, Moorland Sports Club Limited in Poulton-le-Fylde was incorporated in 1946. However, there was an ‘opening’ event in 1950, attended by Tessie O’Shea who lived just a little further down Breck Road in Poulton. Another celebrity, Terry Thomas, was also at the event. The club is adjacent to the YMCA sports complex and golf club and has undergone significant renovations since then, including a new clubhouse and updated tennis facilities. Members can play year-round on floodlit courts, with both carpet, astroturf, and hard courts available. The club also participates in various leagues for…

Lytham’s Talbot Hotel and its Evolution

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The Talbot Hotel in Lytham was a landmark building built between 1850 and 1870, located on Clifton Street. Originally a popular inn, it later became a shopping complex after significant refurbishment in the 1980s. The building featured a Bath Street entrance that served as an order office and later became a recreation room. Notably, a rare cobble-walled stable located behind the hotel, possibly part of an earlier farm, was also a significant historical feature. © Deeper Blue Marketing & Design Ltd The Talbot Building with retail units as it is in 2025 © Deeper Blue Marketing & Design Ltd The…

Rob Parr Opens Come Cook With Us

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Rob Parr’s healthy eating project, Come Dine With Us at 145 Central Drive in Revoe, Blackpool (one of the UK’s most socially deprived areas) is moving on. He and his team hope to start giving cooking lessons to adults in Revoe to help them transition from ready meals and takeaways to meals with higher nutritional value. There is still plenty of work to do before they can open this Community-run facility, but they are getting closer and closer to opening day. Keep an eye on this post for updates. Rob Parr, Founder in 2025, © Rob Parr Nearly ready to…

Poulton Health & Fitness Centre

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The Poulton Health & Fitness Centre in Poulton-le-Fylde was built in 1974. It was originally part of the Poulton Leisure Centre, which also included dry-side facilities like a 43-station gym and an 8m x 15m exercise studio. The site also features wet-side facilities including a 3-lane 20m pool and a separate spa. The YMCA Poulton is your local leisure centre where everyone is welcome! Their friendly staff will help you with any aspect of your mental and physical fitness journey. They are fully accessible with a ramped entrance, wet and dry disabled changing facilities and pool hoist/graduated steps for easy entrance…

Blackpool Carers Centre Moves Into Beaverbrooks House

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Beaverbrooks House in Blackpool is an iconic building that was gifted to the Blackpool Carers Centre by the Beaverbrooks Charitable Trust. The building, formerly known as Blenheim House on Newton Drive, was initially purchased from Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and renamed in honour of the trust in 2013. This donation, announced during National Carers Week in 2015, marked a significant step in the charity’s growth and allowed them to expand their services. As a result of the partnership with Beaverbrooks, Blackpool Carers won the Lloyds Foundation Regional award for Enterprising Collaboration, North West. One of the top Blackpool…

Alan Ball Starts at Blackpool Football Club at 17

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Alan James Ball MBE (12 May 1945 – 25 April 2007) was an English professional football player and manager. Often regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time, he won the 1966 World Cup with England and played for various clubs, scoring more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years. After retiring as a player, he had a 15-year career as a manager which included spells in the top flight of English football with Portsmouth, Southampton and Manchester City. He was inducted in the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003. Ball started his professional…

Stanley Park’s Gift to Skaters, Skateboarders and BMX Fans

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Skaters, skateboarders and BMX fans turned out in force to celebrate the opening of a 4,000 sq m new skate park in Blackpool in May of 2022. The new facility, packed with stairs, ledges, rails, curbs, quarter pipes as well as a mini ramp to test riders’ skills, was the brainchild of two local skateboarders, Simon Bennet and Big Woody, who founded the Stanley Park Skate Park Development Group to convert a run-down area of Stanley Park into an attraction that will bring people in from across the county. They had the support of Blackpool Council and the Friends of…

St John the Evangelist, The Parish Church of Blackpool

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The parish church of Blackpool Saint John the Evangelist, or St John’s Blackpool, is an Anglican church in Blackpool. It was completed in 1878 and is a Grade II listed building. A church was built on the site in 1821 and was replaced by the current building to accommodate a larger congregation. The church was designed by Garlick, Park and Sykes in the Early English style and has been restored and renovated in 1986 and from 2000 to 2006. St John’s is known as the parish church of Blackpool, and is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn…

The Sacred Heart Becomes Blackpool’s First Roman Catholic Church

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Sacred Heart Church was founded by the Jesuits as the town’s first Roman Catholic church. It was built in 1857 to a design by Edward Welby Pugin. The church was enlarged, to the east, in 1894, to a design by Pugin & Pugin. It was designated as a Grade II* listed building by English Heritage on 20 October 1983. The Grade II* listing is for “particularly important buildings of more than special interest”. Since 2004, it has been served by priests from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster. The parish priest is Canon Robert Dewhurst. The church is constructed of…