Blackpool's Past
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Inside Brookfield Place looking at the Memorial Garden and Oculus.
That's the bike path in front of the white van. On the Sunday morning before 9/11I was riding my bike on that path right at the spot excited that the path to Battery Park was competed! Construction crews had just painted the lines all the way down. Finally we were going to have nice riding from Houston Street to the end of the island. It was pretty and smooth and exciting. Little did we know it would all be gone by Noon on Tuesday.
The Winter Gardens is a large entertainment complex in the town centre of Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It has twelve different venues, including a theatre, ballroom and conference facilities. Opened in 1878, it is a Grade II* listed building, incorporating various elements built between 1875 and 1939. It is operated by Crown Leisure Ltd, on behalf of Blackpool Council, which purchased the property from Leisure Parcs Ltd as part of a £40 million deal in 2010.
The Winter Gardens has hosted the main annual conferences for all three major British political parties as well as a number of trade unions. The Winter Gardens owners claim that every British Prime Minister since World War II has addressed an audience at the venue.
It has also been the venue of the Blackpool Dance Festival since its inception in 1920, has hosted the World Matchplay darts tournament every July since 1994 and it is the venue for the annual Rebellion punk festival. Curt: Wikipedia.
The iron and glass Winter Garden's are attached to the rear of the People's Palace Museum.
“Open to the people for ever and ever,” were the words of the Earl Of Rosebery as he opened People’s Palace in 1898. In a time when Glasgow’s East End was struggling with extreme poverty and health problems, the social history museum was founded to provide a beacon of hope for those in need, as well as telling their story for generations to come.
The Winter Garden at the Auckland Domain is a treasure of great historic interest. It was designed in the early 1900s in the style of the famous English partnership of Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jeckyll and opened in 1913. (Source:http://www.gardens.org.nz/auckland-gardens/auckland-domain-wintergardens/)