Palatine College

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:39 pm

Now I attend college at this site , so have been taking images of the building ( was a nursery - Busy Bees ) that was being knocked down last year. The land will be used as student accomodation ( mush to the delight of the surrounding houses )

More of the clear land when I get a chance

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:31 pm

Okay...I'm lost with this one. When you say 'Paletine College', surely they haven't pulled down the college on Paletine Road?

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:27 pm

Its the one on Palatine Road, off Park Road ...

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:37 pm

Joolz,

The main techincal college? That great big building where almost all of the students in Blackpool go...er, went...possibly? They've pulled down the technical college? Or are we just talking about the pottery barn place, or the car engine workshop bit, or the wooden building on Read Avenue that seemed to have no real purpose?

I really ought to go down Blackpool more often. There won't be much of it left at this rate...apart from those awful tower blocks at Queens Park, of course; the one set of buildings that ought to be demolished but, for some unknown reason, seem to be a permanent feature. I can only assume some bloke in the planning department has shares in them.

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:44 pm

http://www.reblackpool.com/reblackpool/ ... PageID=504

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:49 pm

Ah...right. So part of the old college has been demolished to make way for the new 'Univeristy Style Campus' and the rest of it looks pretty much the same as it always did. I'll have to have a look at some point and see what they're doing.

I like this image from the website:

The fat bloke wandering past the entrance looks like Peter Griffin from 'Family Guy'.

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:52 pm

Laughs out loud!

The old building is rather fab , the image you have used is the bit where the A level students go, further back is where all the HE students go. tell you what I will take some images in and around to add to the collection.

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:53 pm

Oh no none of the old college is being got rid off, the site I took images of was the busy bee nursery, it got bought by the college so they could expand.

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:42 am

Images from the empty site

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:57 am

Excellent. They're building a swimming pool to go with it. That'll make up for the demolition of the Lido, then.

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:17 am

There be 3 pools .....

wyrearchaeology · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:22 am

And so far they all look significantly more impressive than the Sandcastle...

Blackpoolghosts · **Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:48 pm

better ventilation as well....

bignick47 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:46 pm

Just had to put in my ten-pence worth:

Pelham Mount was a private Club that opened in the 1930s, in the old Pelham Mount House - a private villa that had been reached from Palatine Road. That entrance was blocked up and Pelham Mount was only accessible from Park Road.

In 1998 a Busy Bees Kindergarten opened where Pelham Mount had just been demolished.

Busy Bees itself was knocked down in November 2007, and the land bought by the Technical College on Palatine Road for future expansion. It may not now be needed for that purpose as they are planning to up sticks and go to Central Drive as a University.

Hope this clears things up!!

PS - the answers are all in my book

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