Majestic Court Site, St Annes on Sea

iBase ID

231035

Reference identifier

NST30042010001

Title

Majestic Court Site, St Annes on Sea

Place

St Annes on Sea

General notes

The photograph shows the planned site for the Majestic Court apartments. These were built on the land cleared after the demolition of the Majestic Hotel (formerly the Imperial Hydro(pathic) Hotel, early in t1975.

Following the publishing of pictures of the demolition in the Lytham St Annes Express in June 2010, Mrs Ruth Baxendale of St Annes told us.....

"....on January 11th 1975 her late husband JD Baxendale (Baxi) and Arthur Powell were interviewed by North West Television News outside the pier entrance and viewers could witness the demolition of the Majestic.

On being asked for his favourite memory of the hotel Baxi said - 'Saturday night in the Grill Room having Lobster Thermidor'.

The hotel was the venue for all the prominent winter dances - North Drive Tennis Club always had their events there. The Fylde Horse Club held their very first dance there on April 30th 1948 after the hotel was re-opened. Afternoon tea dances were held there in the winter months. Sixty years ago Fred Morris and Eva Lawless held ballroom dancing classes at the hotel."

Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

3.5/3.5ins.

Year of image

c1975

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Locator

751

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