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Market Place
Market Place has been the focus of Poulton-le-Fylde since its earliest days.
- An image of Market Place listed as C1864
- Market Cross looking towards the Post Office when at the junction of Blackpool Old Road and Queens Square.
- Some rather grand looking buildings on the East side of Market Place
- Early photograph with Market Place as a cobbled street. Properties are both houses & small shops.
- An extract from the 1892 25″ Ordnance Survey map.There was then a large house at the North end in front of St. Chad’s Church.
- The building at the North end of the street is called Cyclist’s Rest. Possibly a café or lodging house.
- E. Richards store with cycle shop above it, adjoining the shop of R.W Lord, who provided many photographs & postcards of the town between 1901 and 1911.
- This gathering probably took place in the 1920s or 1930s as the large bank building still exist at the North end.
- 1902 Gala Day procession, also celebrating the imminent, but postponed, coronation of Edward VII.
- The building in front of St. Chad’s Church is shown on the 1932 Ordnance Survey Map as being a bank branch, probably what became Midland Bank. It was demolished in the late 1930s.
- Buses from the days when each bus was crewed by a driver and a conductor. The style of bus would suggest the 1930s.
- Market Place as it was in the 1932 OS map. The bank facing South in front of St. Chads Church was demolished later in the 1930s, giving us the clear view of St. Chad’s Church that we now have.
- Market Cross and the Bull Hotel to the left
- This photograph was probably taken in the 1940s. Black and white markings around Market Cross and on the kerbstones only appear in a few images. Used to mark trip hazards during the blackouts in WWII.
- E Richards & Son stood on this site for decades. Initially it traded as E. Richards Farm Stores. Later as E. Richard & Son, ironmongers.
- A view from the 1950s / 1960s with the two storey police station on the right.
- Market Place with motor traffic, possibly from the 1960s.
- Market place when it was still open to through traffic. The “flying saucer” lampposts would suggest a date in the 1970s.
- The War Memorial was moved to Market Place from its original site in Queens Square in 1977
- Market Place was converted to a pedestrian precinct in the late 1970s.
- This photograph was taken some time before 2015 when the traffic flow at this junction altered.