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Lytham St Annes (/ ˈ l ɪ ð əm s ən t ˈ æ n z /) [2] is a seaside town in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England.It is on the Fylde coast, directly south of Blackpool on the Ribble Estuary.
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Blackpool tramway runs along the length of the sea front at Bispham. In 1920 Blackpool Corporation took over the Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramroad Company gaining a further eight miles (13 km) of track, and also three further depots including the Bispham Tram Depot on Red Bank Road, until it closed in 1966. [ 48 ]
Some services, especially in busy periods such as during Blackpool Illuminations or on bank holidays, start or terminate short at Cleveleys, Little Bispham, Bispham, or the Pleasure Beach to allow a more intensive service through the centre of Blackpool. During the Illuminations, decorated trams carry passengers on the promenade along the ...
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
The station was built by Thornton Cleveleys Urban District in 1932, and was used by Ribble Motor Services buses initially. Blackpool Corporation buses began serving it in 1940. In 2024, a mural was unveiled inside the station, with a Star Wars theme, after nearby Cleveleys beach was used as a location for the American television series Andor ...
The footpath in view follows the former route of a Roman road down to the River Wyre. According to Ben Bowman of the Blackpool Gazette and Herald: "At Cleveleys there was no highway to Thornton until Ramper Road (now Victoria Road) was constructed of gravel over the marsh to Thornton, under an order called the Marsh Act Award of 1805," but a 1786 William Yates map shows Ramper Road was already ...