Category: 1927

Edwin Hughes, Last Survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade

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Edwin Hughes, born on 12 December 1830, was a British Army soldier known as “Balaclava Ned.” He was the last surviving member of the famous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War (1854–56). Hughes married Hannah, who passed away in 1899, and they had two sons and two daughters. One of his daughters remained unmarried, and in 1910, Hughes moved to Blackpool to live with her. He was an active member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society, attending reunions of the Light Brigade survivors in 1895, 1910, 1912, and 1913. Hughes received a pension from the T. H. Roberts… Read more »

June Tripp Lands Role in Alfred Hitchcock Film

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June Tripp, born June Howard-Tripp on 11 June 1901 in Blackpool, was a British-American actress best known for her work on stage and in silent films. Often credited simply as June Tripp, she primarily performed in revue theatre but also appeared in several films, most notably starring opposite Ivor Novello in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). In March 1929, she married John Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde, and moved to Castle Wemyss. She was mentioned as “Topsy” in Inverclyde’s account of his travels aboard the steam yacht Beryl around the Mediterranean that… Read more »

Daintee Confectionery’s Blackpool Start

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Daintee Chocolate Confectionery Company (Blackpool) Ltd was founded by three brothers, Stanley, Fred and Roy Kitt in 1927. Its first premises were in Crystal Road, Blackpool, moving to 20/22 Lune Grove shortly afterwards. The Kitt family had been making sugar confectionery in Plymouth, London and Bridgend since the 1850s and the boys father, William Edward, had taken on the position of manager of Paige’s Mints on Henry Street in 1924 when the family moved to Blackpool. At the age of 16, Stanley had been employed as the youngest first hand sugar-boiler at Waller & Hartley sweets which was at that time on… Read more »