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Mr. Hincksman’s Chapel, later known as Bath Street Methodist Church, was a Wesleyan chapel built in Lytham in 1846, funded largely by Thomas Crouch Hincksman, a Preston cotton spinner. The origins of Methodism in Lytham started from a cottage in Bath Street, which was a licensed preaching house. In 1846 a chapel which could accommodate 200 worshippers was built in Bath Street by T.C. Hincksman but by 1868 this was not large enough to hold all the summer visitors and it was replaced in 1868 by much large premises on Park Street. It was subsequently used as the first Lytham… Read more »

In 1848, the Lytham Improvement Commissioners, the local government of the day, commissioned the building of Lytham Market Hall at a cost of over £1,000, designed by Charles Reed of Liverpool, to replace the open-air market. It was originally designed as a single-story structure with an Italianate style. A clock tower, donated by Lady Eleanor Cecily Clifton, was added to the building in 1868. A further tower was added on the west side in 1877. In 1883 a drinking fountain was placed  in the Market Square in memory of her husband, John Talbot Clifton, who died in 1882. In the… Read more »

Richard Ansdell RA (11 May 1815 – 20 April 1885) was a British painter of animals and genre scenes. For part of his career he kept a “summer house” at Lytham St Annes, in the borough of Fylde, where a district, Ansdell, is named after him. He is the only English artist to have been honoured in this way. Many of his works are under the guardianship of Fylde Borough Council, having been donated to the former Lytham St Annes Corporation in the 1930s. A selection of these paintings is periodically exhibited at the Fylde Gallery above Booths supermarket in Lytham… Read more »