THE FOXHALL Fox Hall stood as one of the earliest known residences in what would later become Blackpool. It was built in the latter part of the 17th century by Edward Tyldesley (1635–1685), most likely around 1670. Edward’s son, Thomas Tyldesley (1657–1714), occupied the house during the years covered by his surviving diary, which remains a valuable record of Lancashire life in the late Stuart period. At the time, Blackpool was little more than a stretch of windswept coastline, remote and sparsely inhabited. The Tyldesleys’ decision to build there has long been thought deliberate — a choice of seclusion that…