37 nostalgic pictures of Whitegate Drive and Devonshire Road in Blackpool including shops, old pubs and schools
By Claire Lark
Published 8th Nov 2023, 11:19 BST
Updated 8th Nov 2023, 11:20 BST
Whitegate Drive and Devonshire Road go hand in hand, north to south slicing through Blackpool.
They are micro communities with their own shops, businesses and schools and life on both streets goes back more than a century. It is where Blackpool Victoria Hospital originated, it’s home to the town’s oldest pub and it’s where one of Blackpool's most popular schools was torched 20 years ago. These evocative pictures take us on a journey through the years from the 1800s to noughties.
The junction of Red Bank Road, Devonshire Road and Bispham Road showing Bispham Library. Bispham Police Station now stands where the cottages left of centre are. The photograph appears to have been taken from the roof of the public toilets, 1950s Photo: Staff
View from the Rock Gardens in Devonshire Road looking east. The tower (top left of centre) is Carleton Crematorium. The flat roofed building beyond the playing field is Arnold School for Girls ( later Greenlands) and the low buildings on the right were the Warbreck Hill government offices.The houses on Bispham Road and the junction with Samlesbury Avenue can also be seen, 1957 Photo: staff