Blue Plaques in Blackpool
A booklet listing and supplying information about the Blue Plaques is available in Blackpool Library and Stanley Park Visitor Centre.
A sign is outside the Blackpool Tourism Office on Clifton Street showing the heritage trail.
The blue plaque below is at Blackpool Zoo which was formerly an airport and many of the current buildings were hangars.
Blackpool has a long history of aviation. Flying meetings go back to 1909 with aviation luminaries such as Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe OBE, Hon. FRAeS, FIAS, founder of Avro and Saunders Roe, regularly participating.
Below is a list of Blue Plaques. Each plaque contains a description of its purpose:
Town Hall
Clifton Hotel
War Memorial
Princes Parade
Baileys Hotel
North Pier
Foudroyant
Victoria Promenade
Church of the Sacred Heart
Railway Hotel
Grundy Art Gallery
Central Library
Former Odeon Cinema
North Station
General Post Office
Abingdon Street Market
Parish Church of St John
Queen Vera Road
Empire Theatre
Blackpool St John's National School
Winter Gardens
Adelphi Hotel
Old Post Office
Big Wheel (town centre)
Grand Theatre
Temple of Arts
Borough Theatre
Central Picture Theatre
Blackpool Tower
The Palace (Alhambra)
Lane Ends Hotel
Roberts Oyster Rooms
Mitre Inn
Bonney's Farm
Municipal Buildings
Saddle Inn
Raikes Hall
Old No.3 and Didsbury Hotel
Foxhall
Central Pier
Central Station
The Gynn
55 Ormond Avenue
Squires Gate Aerodrome
Blowing Sands
Swallow Sidecar Company
Old Coach House
Stanley Park Visitor Centre
Solaris Centre
Blackpool Cricket Club, Harold Larwood.
10 Vance Road, Alistair Cooke.
Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes
St Nicholas's School, Michael Smith - Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Masonic Hall
St Stephens on the Cliffs.
