St Anne’s Parish Church, designed by Lancaster architects Paley & Austin has a date stone over a small Walk 1 doorway that records its dedication S T in 1873. A grave to the right of the A N porch holds the bodies of five of the D R S 10 St. Anne’s lifeboat crew who were lost E T W D in the Mexico Disaster of 1886. Visits ’S A St Anne’s V to St. Anne’s church are by prior R ID O ’ arrangement with the Parish Office A S D R Tel: 01253 722736. The fine church N O O A interior contains a millennium tapestry R D T N Cross Church Road to view the original illustrating the history of the town. D H O A R part of Heyhouses School designed A booklet explaining the tapestry is O T R H by Maxwell and Tuke (the architects available to purchase inside. Town Trail H C of Blackpool Tower) in 1879. To your A Retrace your steps to return to the station. E B left in the school grounds, a plaque commemorates Captain John Alcock, Based on the Town Trail which was Aston a former pupil, one of the two men revised and produced by St Anne’s on 9 who made the first non-stop aerial the Sea Town Council and Lytham St arens crossing of the Atlantic. Anne’s Civic Society in 2010. S 2 T 3 D 1 A V ID ’ 4 S R Further Information O A D Maps of the Area N O R T OS Explorer 286 Blackpool & Preston H Car Post OS Landranger 102 Preston & Blackpool Park Office 5 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk Town 8 6 Hall An hourly train service runs between Preston and St. Annes. For more details go to: St Anne’s Web: www.northernrailway.co.uk www.nationalrail.co.uk ier Tel: 08457 484950 Swiin For information on local attractions, events, places of interest and accomodation please 7 ats contact: Web: www.visitlythamstannes.co.uk www.southfyldelinecrp.co.uk leasre Tel: 01253 725610 Islan This leaflet has been part funded by the Community Rail Development Fund jointly with the Department of Transport, Network Rail and 2 miles / 3.25km with an optional extension ACoRP along with St. Anne’s Town Council and the South Fylde Line CRP. of 1 mile / 1.61km, level throughout. www.communityraillancashire.co.uk Walk 1 the motto “Salus Populi Suprema Lex building adjoining it. It is now a cafe Turn left and on your left is the former Est” (The welfare of the people is the but was used previously as a Tourist St Anne’s Technical School, with a highest law). The hand and dagger Information Office. Note the blue date stone of MDCCCCVII (1907). ST ANNE’S TOWN TRAIL – symbol reinforces the link with the plaque on the front whilst the door at The St. Anne’s crest is again to be from the station, round the town returning to the station. Clifton family. the back of the building gave access seen in stained glass above the to a toilet for the tram drivers on route entrance doors. This building was Opposite is a terrace of fine imposing This Trail aims to encourage people to appreciate the attractive and to Lytham. saved from demolition after being houses known as Porritt houses. varied environment of St Anne’s on the Sea, and provide some historical listed by English Heritage. background to the development of ‘a Garden Town by the Sea’. The architect William John Porritt Cross the road at the traffic lights and was born in Ramsbottom in East head towards the Pier, noting on the right Alongside is St. Anne’s Library, Lancashire but lived for part of the set in the gateways are the initials IH. designed by John Dent Harker. Until the 1870s present day St Anne’s was an area of They also invested in the railway between Lytham year in St Anne’s. The houses he built The Imperial Hydro once stood on This interesting building, with its sand dunes, fields and farms, known as Heyhouses. and Blackpool, and in the early 1870s they laid out the were distinctive and became known this site before the magnificent copper domed roof, opened in 1905, The Clifton family of Lytham Hall owned the land and road from Starr Hills (Fairhaven) to the present as “Porritt” houses. Majestic Hotel replaced it. Despite it impressive stone memorial to the with the benefit of a grant from from the 1840s, under the guidance of their Land St Anne’s Square. being regarded as one of St. Anne’s crew of the LAURA JANET, designed the Carnegie Foundation. Recently Agent, the Cliftons began planning for a new town. finest treasures, it was demolished by Edinburgh architect W.B. Rhind. a Reading Garden and a mosaic in 1975 and replaced with a block of The LAURA JANET set out on the depicting the Owl and the Pussycat unflattering red brick flats. stormy night of the 9th December have been added thanks to the 1886 to give help to the German ship Friends Group. Note the blue plaque. On your left is the Town Hall, originally the Mexico. All the crew were lost, The Trail starts at the Station. built as the Southdown Hydro Hotel. It was redeveloped into Hardaker the colourful mural in the 1960s. The together with most of the crew of the A station opened on 1 November Note the chiselled stone pillars at the Court and named after the long- shops here were once private houses Southport lifeboat. It is still the worst 1873 called Cross Slack. It was car park entrance and the decorative serving Football League secretary with gardens. disaster in RNLI history - 27 crewmen renamed St Annes-on-the-Sea two pebbles on the walls, a typical local Alan Hardaker. died in total, leaving 50 orphans. Turn right into the square and stop outside years later. The station lost one of its feature. On the opposite side of Clifton Drive, the Cafe Fresh. A blue plaque on the wall platforms in 1986 when the line was Continue on passing a restored Cross the promenade and head right is one of the most significant and honours Frank Dickinson, optometrist and reduced to single track and the old Edwardian shelter and take the path to Turn left and you approach the United into the sunken gardens to come upon important historical buildings in the inventor of the micro lens. station was demolished. the right of the fountain to gain access Reformed Church which opened in the statue of comedian Les Dawson, town, the Public Offices. This was the to the Promenade. Turn right and skirt Dependant on time, continue on to the Facing you is the Town House, but it 1896. The church was founded as St. who lived locally. first public building to be erected in the boating lake. You will come to the Parish Church or return to the station was originally the site of the St. Anne’s Anne’s-on-the-Sea Congregational St Anne’s, and is a visible statement Retrace your steps to approach the Pier. new Lifeboat House which houses the Hotel, which was demolished in 1985. Church in September 1880. It was of early civic pride. This is a Grade II Take the right fork over the railway The Pier opened in 1885, the entrance Lytham St Anne’s ocean-going lifeboat In the basement of the Town House is financed by businessmen from East Listed Building has remained largely bridge ahead of you is the Church of added in 1899 and in 1903 a Moorish and a small museum and shop. Continue left along the Drive and you the town’s original foundation stone Lancashire who for religious reasons unchanged and retains many original Our Lady, Star of the Sea built in 1890 Pavilion completed the structure. The will pass the District Club, on the laid by seven year old John Talbot had been prevented from investing in Turn left by the side of the Swimming features. The Public Offices opened to a design by Pugin and Pugin, with a Pavilion was destroyed by fire in 1974 corner of Hornby Road. Built in 1875 Clifton in March 1875. the area where they lived. Pool building to regain the promenade on 22 January 1902. weather vane in the form of a yacht. whilst the Floral Hall suffered the same this was formerly Kilgrimol School. and continue on, passing two Walk to the left and into the square. A few steps further on, is the original fate in 1982. Turn right Wood Street known as the Continue up St Anne’s Road East and converted railway carriages now used Turn left into Eastbank Rd and on your Note the wide pavements and open waiting room of the Blackpool, ‘cafe quarter’. Look at the upper at its junction with Headroomgate Walk by the boating/paddling pool as shops and a cafe. right can be seen the Old Lifeboat nature of the square with a public St Anne’s and Lytham Tramways storeys of the buildings to the right Road stands the lamp by the and ornate Bandstand and view the House which was the home of the performance area, planters, car Continue on and turn right into can be obtained from Supporters Company with a similar modern Further along you reach the Edwardian and left to see the architectural Lych Gate of the Parish Church, LAURA JANET. parking and attractive mosaics.