Blackpool Talbot Ward History Tour

[@KathrynSanders-wx5xi]

Great to see you last night, Stephen! My nephew and I love your work showing all the different sides of Blackpool - always done with great knowledge of and affection for the town. Seeing you absolutely made our day! Your fan from Swindon (formerly of Highfield Road, Blackpool).

[@bettywhittaker6083]

Yes the decorating store we use it for a lot of our decorating. When we decide to do a room up we come and have a short break and go to the wall paper shop as it's the best one we have ever been to.

[@John-gh5nn]

Those new properties on the corner of Henthorne Street was on the site of the old Edward Henthorne Builders Merchants. And Savoy Timber is on the site of the old Ribble Bus Depot. Where Farmfoods were or are on Devonshire there used to be a motorbike dealership called John Halls. Those railings round what used to be Devonshire Hospital I’m quite surprised they were never taken down and melted like the ones outside the General Post Office in Blackpool for the war efforts. Corner of Coopers Way was the old White glazed tiled C&S ( Catterall & Swarbrick Brewery. I’m more familiar with the East side of Talbot Road heading towards the Layton Cemetry as this is the area where I was born and bred and could give you some insight into what life and shops were like growing up there in the early sixties ( I wouldn’t have changed it for the world ) we lived in a two up two down some great memories. As always Stephen another great video.

[@Grid56]

I don't do drugs but for some reason I'm addicted to these videos. I always look forward to the wildside wave, usually followed by some kicking off 😂

[@martinwebb1681]

Thanks, Stephen. The traffic sounds Surprisingly soothing in your video. Some interesting sights made even more interesting by your commentary. The silver grey Ford Transit van at the top of Coleridge road has clearly been dumped as it has no number plate and all the tyres are flat.

[@Thetraveller752]

These videos are so good Stephen huge fan of the channel, very interesting Stephen I love the history in your videos plus I enjoy seeing the back streets of Blackpool too...

[@jordanalt]

Was curious if we could see a stephens top 10 places to check out in Blackpool, or a video on the best things to do when visiting Blackpool could be potential with all the new stuff opening these days :)

[@anthonymorris1360]

Many thanks for this. Great to see the changes. All the best to you.

[@susanlitherland698]

hi 👋 Stephen another amazing video thank you so much ❤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@clairenurse2378]

Hi Stephen, I've never been in a weirder supermarket than that Sainsbury's! I wonder if anyone has lost control of their trolley! Can't wait for Monday for our week up in Blackpool.

[@kevinmott6205]

Brilliant vlog. I remember the high rises. Really enjoyed that educational walk around. Thanks Stephen 😂❤

[@mildredschulz]

Hi Stephen. Thank you very much for sharing your walk around showing us these different places in Blackpool. Places that I haven’t seen before. Some nice streets. The hotel looks very nice. You can’t get lost just need to look for the tower 😀👍❤️

[@doomybear7389]

Great new walk loved it, and those work of art railings around the old hospital, councils don't realize if they let things go the area becomes a dumping ground for lazy people, in Bristol we have Bristol South Baths still in use, it is a listed building but the council have ignored the lack of care the people with the cans have a right s****ole, no money in the kitty as the money is needed to pay the top management, The top boss at Bristol Waste(council company) was paid £224,000 for just over 10 months in 2023 and services are still being cut.

[@joekerr6685]

I believe Talbot Road was originally called New Road hence the pub name New Road Inn. If my memory serves me right Savoy Timber was a garage for either National Coaches or Ribble Buses in the 1970’s. The fenced off area on the corner of Gorton Street and Talbot Road was a small car breakers in the late 80’s early 90’s.

[@jocky5666]

The Savoy Timber building was originally the garage for Ribble Busesl The tyre place diagonally opposite that was a drive through car wash back in the late 60`s/early 70`s.

[@hazelmanship7516]

Nice walk around Steven,good weather too, sun's very bright here,just watered garden,thanks for the info. Take care have a good weekend,😊x

[@paulinefraser4097]

Loved the walk about in this video Stephen and all the interesting things you pointed out and loved at the end when you’re by Sainsbury’s and could see the tower in the glass window 👍 take care until next time Pauline from Blackpool living in Canada 🍁

[@jackymitchell8487]

What a great vid Stephen. Thank you so much. Different areas and very interesting. 👌👍

[@edwardharrington678]

Some very nice places in Blackpool. Well done.

[@ashleycunliffe6158]

I watch your videos every night Steven .love them.

[@Gail-o3f]

Thanks for the history of blackpool carnt wait for the north station tram stop🚊😊

[@carolmurray5569]

Enjoyed the video Stephen, thank u 👍

[@wendyjones2351]

Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always a very interesting and informative video its good to hear about the history of Blackpool have a great day xx

[@danielbooker3508]

Very well done Stephen, thoroughly enjoyed today’s walkabout. Thanks so much for the history commentary, i loved that wrought iron fence. They don’t make them like that anymore. Be safe my friend, (praying you win that house!😂🙏🏾❤)

[@JulieBilson]

Thanks for sharing Stephen😊

[@nigelstringerNVS]

Great information Stephen, great videos.

[@Cordel10]

I thought I was back in 93/94 at around 30mins i heard the ace of base I saw the sign 😂😂😂 lovely voice Stephen 👍

[@sarahillingworth2718]

Great video and sending support 🙏❤️

[@stewartingram]

The present day North station was the original excusion platforms that extended the normal North station, The latter station was situated between Talbot Road and the present tracks (basically the Apollo site). The Sainsburys petrol station was also part of the Apollo car park, the cheapest in Blackpool.

[@stefanmaslaczyk1259]

Thanks for another great video Stephen. I remember visiting my mother in the hospital on Devonshire Road. It was known as at the time as Blackpool Sanatorium.

[@markstramtrainbuscapades1729]

Savoy Timber was originally the Ribble bus garage, opened in 1932 and closed in 1987, then being bought by Abbotts Coaches. The Ribble & Standerwick coach garage, meanwhile, was where the Lidl now is on Devonshire Road, that also closing in 1987, two years before Ribble were taken over by Stagecoach.

[@DavidKidd-ft4xq]

Another great and informative video Steve.

[@thomasfoster9011]

Love the video the yellow Building use to be the old bus depot for ribble

[@karenbonner9997]

Great video Stephen. What bus goes up to the model village. Going to go when I'm down in July

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

No idea lol 🚌

[@kevinmott6205]

Just watched a July 2016 KZbin vlog of yours of the flats being demolished. ❤

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Nice one 👍

[@racheljohnson9687]

I enjoyed looking around parts of Blackpool I haven't seen. You could see those flats from the M55. I think the best thing that happened to Layton was getting rid of those druggies flats.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

The high rises were a bit dodge. I remember tripping over crackheads when going up the stairs before they put in the secure entry.

[@racheljohnson9687]

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool sounds about right. I heard that the council couldn't give them away, so they decided to get shot

[@dianemckill5708]

They definitely knew how to build and make things last century They really put a lot of effort and love into their finished work

[@gavinhodgkins6643]

Thank you for another great video Stephen. If you put me down there where you started I wouldn't have a clue where I was. Could only imagine my comments on my video. Look for the tower or Big One and carry on.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Gavin

[@JackyTracey]

Went in Wheatsheaf many times and Appollo 2000 brilliant, yes Wheatsheaf was opposite the Ramsden Arms

[@jennybates]

Behind Hopfields, 123 Talbot Rd, is the Bass Charrington Brewery.

[@martindowns4979]

I remember that

[@georgesmellie8717]

Thanks for another great vlog Stephen i hope you are well I'm in hospital

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Get better soon George.

[@adelemcclymont6790]

Thank you for Sharing .

[@ianedwards6189]

Another informative vlog. Keep up the good work Stephen from Ian and Sarah from Derby

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Ian and Sarah 👍

[@roseannburke-lj5qt]

So looking forward to coming to Blackpool on 14th June hopefully myt see you n take you for a drink

[@peterkearns665]

Hi Stephen that was very interesting and informative... Until the next one

[@janinehawkins9565]

3.7 acres that hospital site. Surprised railings survived the war. Very interesting 👌

[@bobbobby9798]

Ive always wondered if they were left to keep it as secure site / military hospital during the war. High walls also.

[@captainnemo247]

I think it was an isolation hospital originally.

[@bobbobby9798]

@@captainnemo247 that would make sense for keeping the security features , perfect for the coming courts also?

[@captainnemo247]

@@bobbobby9798 I would expect that they will refurbish those walls and railings in any case.

[@madhatter8253]

Blackpool as changed so much since my mum and dad had a hotel on palatine Road

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Palatine Road has gone downhill quite a bit.

[@madhatter8253]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool we had a drive down there last year and could not believe how bad it’s got . 👍

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@madhatter8253 The bit between Livingstone Road and Central Drive is a red light area.

[@madhatter8253]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool wow , never new that , hopefully when all the investment finished the area hopefully will get a lot better

[@FILNAT2011]

Amazed not see you at the D Day event at the tower yesterday, hope see you over the pride weekend

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I’ve been way too busy in Lytham all week to do much filming.

[@janobyrne2424]

Thanks for the video Stephen, there were areas of Blackpool I'd never seen before. Not surprised to see a police car in the video, usually kicking off when you are around! Must be lovely to be stopped by fans you're so well known now.😊😊😊

[@RevoeLad]

Was the wheatsheaf not accross from the Sainsbury’s petrol station where those new flats are? And then further up you had Peter jones carpets accross from bus station and Barneys and the tache.

[@John-gh5nn]

Opposite where Apollo was near the Ramsden Arms was the Datsun Dealer called Jefferson’s

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I don’t remember that.

[@stevenlowrie6149]

Brilliant video as always...love Blackpool

[@jennybates]

That substation was the toilets for Raikes Hall Park & Gardens.

[@SilverFalcon460]

Gee-Wiz Stephan, I'm here in Canada...wishin I was in Blackpool!?!!) ))

[@SilverFalcon460]

...WHAT GREAT-LOOKIN PUBS!!

[@susanlitherland698]

hi 👋 Stephen i would love to live in layton look's clean wow very nice thank you Stephen for showing us around looks lovely❤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@DavidDunning-g6s]

Great information Steven brill👍

[@spencerhartland4217]

Hear the old Dwp in Bispham is on fire😮

[@davidnm21]

Nice walkabout Stephen you just don’t see railings like that anymore. Talking of fires in flats, another Blackpool KZbinr reported there was a fire in a car sales place yesterday. It looks like it was arson though I don’t know whereabouts?

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Cleveleys pal

[@davidnm21]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool 👍

[@tweed532DaveH]

Great memories brought back for the Farmfoods site formally John Halls Motorbikes and a Gym. Had a couple of Suzuki's in the 70's and Bond Bug for my 21st in '74! Finished if with a BMW R100RS in '84 before they went pure Honda. C& S Brewery site was noted for its 'aroma' of hot yeast and hops that emanated from it, today's wokeflakes be shutting the place down for climate pollution.. I've got a couple of stone beer containers with C&S on when clearing out some old storage boxes when Maintenance Manager at the Clifton Arms Hotel Lytham, a C&S director/owner decades ago used to live in the top floor of the Queen Street annexe as their private residence, his wife is supposed to haunt the floor as the 'White Lady'...

[@junelaw4162]

Evenin arrr! Cookson Street 😂 do love the videos of that street😂shouldn’t think they would use the tractor for a funeral although !!!! 😊 beer monsters they are about 😂 till the next one 😊

[@hayleyhubbard8307]

There’s a huge fire at the old hmrc buildings off warbreck hill road as we speak !! please do a video and update us on what’s happening I have videos I can send 😮

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I’ll see if I can check out the aftermath

[@davidbail944]

Check it out. Walter Robinson was the mayor of Blackpool in the 70s the Walter Robinson court flats was built in 1972 with 131 flats demolished in 2016 👍

[@jayneshaw5247]

Great video ❤👍

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thank you 🤗

[@jayneshaw5247]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool I love your work ❤️👍

[@spencerhartland4217]

Hi Steve, I think Joe longthorne lived in layton, I wonder what his house was like, I liked joe saw him at Blackpool viva and the North Pier theatre. Perhaps u could do an article on him one day...

[@martindowns4979]

By Layton train stop

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Yes, Joe lived in a big house just off the main road. I went past it in a video, I think.

[@spencerhartland4217]

A special entertainer who battled with his health half his life

[@SimonM-63]

Nice one, Stephen 👌

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Simon 👍

[@reverendmotherladysherwood5746]

Accrington bricks which are called NORI bricks because they were supposedly as tough as iron and meant to have Iron stamped on them, but they stamped the word the wrong way around so it became NORI. They kept it.

[@stewartingram]

Just to add North station went all the way down onto the new tram station site. The old red brick wall on Talbot Road survives to this day.

[@jotrenchard1835]

Devonshire school was my old school in the 60’s. I believe it burnt down.

[@am7062skywalker]

Tell me if you know any breweries or distilleries in Lancaster.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Not that I know of

[@davemulready]

Nice One Pal

[@stewartingram]

The substation used to be a tram shelter and toilets. think the substation was also there then.

[@suzannemalyan9643]

Hi Stephen I live in Eastbourne and I pay £675 just for a room in a shared apartment

[@belong53]

I used to sing in the choir at St Thomas's Church

[@peterparr3079]

The council turned the site into a carpark for council workers in the town center. Hardly anyone used it, to far from the office. More money wasted by the council.

[@ColinSargeant-p5n]

Hi...from colin ...try visit lyton rec....

[@stephendonkin5497]

Few trees Stephen

[@JackyTracey]

Devonshire Road school was burnt down

[@elizabethdonnelly6451]

Hi Stephen

[@alanarmer8069]

👍👍💥💥💥💥💥💥💥👍👍

[@elizabethdonnelly6451]

Trees lol 😅

[@olivergould3878]

The TVR factory

[@burtwallace5909]

One thing about Blackpool is it has always maintained it's " Englishness" . I have always said that everybody in England should visit Blackpool at least once in their Lives , a sort of pilgrimage if you like . A well made ,informative Vid ' as usual .

[@robertboughton11]

Hi Stephen

[@robertboughton11]

Hi Stephen

[@robertboughton11]

Hi Stephen