Images of Fleetwood and the Wyre Towns

by Bill Curtis

Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd (Sep 1996)
ISBN-10: 1859830412
ISBN-13: 978-1859830413

THE AUTHOR AND WELL KNOWN LOCAL HISTORIAN BILL CURTIS HAS SELECTED OVER 200 PHOTOGRAPHS, MANY OF WHICH HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN PUBLISHED, TO PROVIDE READERS WITH AN IMPRESSION OF WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE IN FLEETWOOD AND THE SURROUNDING WYRE TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN YEARS GONE BY.

THERE ARE MANY STRIKING IMAGES OF IT'S STREETS, PARKS, PUBS & HOTELS, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES AND MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, CIVIC OCCASIONS AND OF COURSE THE LOCAL FISHING, SHIPPING, RAILWAYS AND AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES.

MOST IMPORTANT HOWEVER, ARE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PEOPLE, SOME FAMOUS, SOME NOT SO WELL KNOWN, WHO HAVE MADE FLEETWOOD AND THE SURROUNDING TOWNS AND VILLAGES WHAT THEY ARE TODAY.

Contents:

FLEETWOOD - THE FIRST CENTURY
FLEETWOOD IN THE 1950's & 1960's
THORNTON CLEVELEYS
POULTON-LE-FYLDE
SKIPPOOL AND SHARD BRIDGE
GARSTANG
CHURCHTOWN
SCORTON
OVER WYRE
KNOTT END
PREESALL
PILLING
HAMBLETON