Vista of sunsets inspired Fylde Garden City dream
Submitting... Looking east to Thornton down Victoria Road from the sea in the early years of the twentieth century. An engineer by profession, first on the old Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and then with a Preston firm, he helped to build Preston Dock and channel. Then he came to Blackpool as manager of the firm to plan and supervise the building of the Fleetwood tramroad from the Gynn that opened on July 14 1898. As he once recalled: “At that time, of course, this was all to intents barren land. Only odd houses dotted the landscape with even fewer along the route of the tramroad.”
Source: blackpoolgazette.co.uk