Aerial View: River Wyre & Fleetwood ~1963

This item is active and ready to use

iBase ID

237121

Reference identifier

NFL20120726005

Title

Aerial View: River Wyre & Fleetwood ~1963

Place

Fleetwood

General notes

View looking South from Morecambe Bay of Fleetwood and River Wyre Estuary.
On the North Coast is the Pier (destroyed: 9/09/2008), the Bowling Greens, Open Air Swimming Pool, The Marine Hall, The Mount & Mount Pavillion.
At the Eastern end is the Railway Station (demolished: C1971) and Quayside.
On the South of the town (photo Middle), are the Docks. The River then passes Fleetwood Power Station (demolished: 1984) & the ICI.
The GIS Reference point is The Upper (Pharos) Lighthouse.

This Aerofilms image (A121418) is supplied courtesy of the Historic England Archive. Anyone wishing to purchase a print, digital copy or reproduction permission should contact archive@HistoricEngland.org.uk tel: 01793 414600.

Medium

Aerial Photograph

Colour

Monochrome

Original image size

24.0cm * 19.0cm

Year of image

1963

Enter year in yyyy format

Locator

Fleetwood~Box_01-Med (Aerial)

Mario Map link