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Teanlowe Centre
The original Teanlowe Centre was built in 1973 and formed a large part of Poulton’s shopping area until it was partially demolished in 2014-15 to allow for the building of the new Booths Supermarket.
This gallery includes images from Blackpool Old Road, Queensway, Tithebarn Street and Burlington Avenue that all contributed to the Teanlowe Centre development.
- Extract of 1932 OS Map: Burlington Avenue (shaded yellow) was demolished to form part of the original Teanlowe Centre. It now forms the bulk of the current shopping arcade. The tithe barn (shaded green) stood where the Northern edge of Booths car park now stands. The red line shows the approximate route of Queensway, completed in the early 1960s.
- The tithe barn was on the South side of Tithebarn Street until it was demolished in 1969 to make way for the Teanlowe Centre car park.
- The tithe barn was used to store crops collected as tithes (rents) from the local farmers by St. Chads Church..
- A view of Tithebarn Street when it was still open to 2-way traffic in the town centre.
- A romantic sketch of Burlington Avenue that was demolished in the early 1970s to form the Church Street entrance to the Teanlowe Centre.
- A more realistic view of what Burlington Avenue looked like. The Avenue used to occupy the area still covered by the indoor shopping arcade.
- Demolition of Burlington Avenue in the early 1970s to make way for the Church Street entrance to the Teanlowe Centre.
- The houses at the left-hand side of this image stood on Blackpool Old Road where Booths delivery yard now stands.
- Blackpool Old Road after it has been cleared to build one of the three entrances to the original Teanlowe Centre.
- The allotments that are now covered by the Teanlowe Centre viewed from what is now Queensway.
- Construction of Queensway in C1960. An early prelude to opening the town centre for future development.
- An early stage in the building of the original Teanlowe Centre in the early 1970s.
- A large part of the original centre was demolished to accommodate the new Booths store which opened in late 2015.
- The rebuilding of the Church Street entrance in 2015.
- The new Church Street entrance to the Centre after the rebuild.
- Inside the Teanlowe Centre at the time of its conversion.
- Inside the Teanlowe Centre as the conversion started to reduce the size of the Centre, prior to the opening of Booths.
- The Blackpool Old Road entrance to the Teanlowe Centre that used to stand where Booths now is.
- The Blackpool Old Road entrance to the Centre as the demolition started on that wing.
- The third entrance to the original Teanlowe Centre that faced onto the car park. The external entrance to Booths now stand on this site.