air raid shelter

conchie · **Joined:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:50 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi, i have been told by one of my parents they used an air raid shelter when she was a child,this air raid shelter is under the old pelham mount club on park rd blackpool.Can any one else help to find out if it was left intact or has been filled in. thanks Steve Conchie

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:42 pm

Hi Steve,

Stay tuned...I'll get back to you on this one...unless somebody else here gets back to you first, of course. (Well...when I say 'I'll get back to you on this one', what I'll actually do is ask around. I'm not even sure whereabouts on Park Road the Pelham Mount Club is, or was, to be honest. But one of the old codge...er...that is, somebody of my acquaintance might know, so keep your fingers crossed.)

It's a pity John Shorrocks, Wyre Archaeology's original treasurer, isn't still alive, to be honest. He'd been compiling a list of all the WWII instalations around the Fylde. I wonder what became of that?

Hold on...just found this under Bowling Greens (don't ask me why) on the web:

Pelham Mount Club (?,?/?/?/?,?,?) SD314356
Park Road, Blackpool - Whole site bulldozed in 1998.

Probably not much chance of the air raid shelter having survived that, I suspect.

chris2553 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:58 am

I think the site is now occupied by a child care centre. If I recall correctly, the imposing wall that surrounded the site is still there, but the club itself was knocked down to be replaced by the new building.

I remember someone telling me that when it was at its height, the club had sufficient clout for Tetley's brewery to ship ales all the way from Leeds whilst all the other Tetley outlets around Blackpool were served by the Walker's brewery that Tetleys had taken over in Warrington.

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:19 am

Chris,

Cheers for that. As always, any photographs (whether old or modern) are always welcome...so if anybody reading this knows of any, you know what to do.

conchie · **Joined:** Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:50 pm **Posts:** 2

Hi again the air raid shelter was behind the existing bus shelter,you can still see the different bricks they used to block it uo.This would mean it must be underneath the old carpark site. steve conchie

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:19 pm

Steve,

I'm still trying to figure out where on Park Road we're talking about. Chris obviously knows, although, judging by all the questions marks in the 'eastings' from that Bowling Greens website, whoever compiled their list was in the dark as much as I am.

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:39 pm

Ahh reading the above, its where the new college building is going , so you do have images , will see If I can get on there, or closer to have a better look when I'm next in college ...

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:59 pm

Joolz,

In that case there really isn't much left of it. If you see one of the cement mixers suddenly drop out of sight with a loud thud, you'll know what's happened to it.

In the meantime Steve, here's the link to those photographs Joolz mentioned:

http://fyldeantiquarian.freeforums.org/ ... -t101.html

chris2553 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:35 am

wyrearchaeology wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out where on Park Road we're talking about. Chris obviously knows, although, judging by all the questions marks in the 'eastings' from that Bowling Greens website, whoever compiled their list was in the dark as much as I am.

Brian,

If I've got the right place, it was on the left a few hundred yards after Palatine Road as you are travelling south on Park Road.

Chris

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:53 am

Chris,

It definitely sounds like the area they've just bulldozed and are building the new 'campus' on then.

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