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The Imperial Hydro, the most elegant of Blackpool’s hotels, was in Claremont Park, the building completed in 1867 and from 1865, the town had created the necessities for a holiday resort that would rival any other in Britain. The day-tripper had been attracted in vast numbers and from 1863; Talbot Clifton funded a second railway line into Blackpool, linking the branch line at Kirkham. In 1874, this had become a double track, though the railways were slow in accommodating the quantity of travellers on the lines. Yet buildings in the two areas around the stations grew in vast measure as row after row of terraced houses were erected so that visitors from inland of Lancashire could be put up overnight in these boarding houses by the Irish sea, their rooms accommodating many people in the estates that were already forming in Blackpool. A new company, the South Blackpool Jerry Company, opened a second pier in 1868 that became known as Central Pier, though its success was slow its demand of use rose with the introduction of open air dancing, a pastime banned on the North Pier. The Lancashire mill workers could in this era board steamers sailing regularly from the pier on short excursions. Locally named The People’s Pier and considered to provide for a ‘different class of patrons’ than the high-status of the North Pier. Serious interest shown by local government in 1865, as the Local Board agreed its intentions of constructing a two-mile Promenade starting from Claremont Park, finishing at the South Shore. Consequently, an Improvement Act passed in 1870 paved the way for the Promenade to open costing £80,000. A half-mile from the Promenade in 1871 a site was developed to accommodate an open-air amusement park. The company specifically produced for this was the Raikes Hall Park, Gardens and Aquarium Company. It cost £14,000 for splendid opened air gardens, close to the Talbot Road Station, offering dancing indoors and out to huge crowds coming to Blackpool. At night fireworks displays lit up the sky with a liquor licence covering the whole grounds proving hugely profitable to the many outlets using the amusement park creating its custom. It was a new vision for its time with a great lake and even an aviary, though the more affluent snubbed the proceedings with their social comments. This venture gave rise in 1875 to the concept of the Blackpool Winter Gardens, giving protection under cover from the worst weather and closer to the sea than the Raikes Hall open-air complex. The Lord Mayor of London attended the opening in 1878 gracing the town with his state carriages and teams of nine horses. The whole project from start to finish enumerated the sum of around £100,000 and for a number of years it entertained the more sophisticated customers in Blackpool by presenting concerts and genteel amenities with the proprietors of the North Pier feeling threatened because of it. |
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