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Worktown Collection (1937-40)
Box 57: Observations in Blackpool cont'd
57/A The weather, sea and the beach
- Observer accounts
- "Blackpool", ms, 1p, 1.7.[?], LT, overheards about
the weather
- "The Sea", ts, 2pp, 21.8.[?]
- "Beach just north of South Pier", ts, 6pp, 24.8.[?], RP
- "Report on the sea", ms, 6pp, 3.9.[?], HH
- "Report of visit to Blackpool Open-Air Swimming Pool near the Pleasure Beach", ts, 3pp, 3.9.[?], BB
- "Reactions to waves bombarding Prom, at period of high tides", ms, 14pp, 3.9.37-4.9.37, HH, two hand drawn charts attached
- "Weather conversations", ts, 1pp, 5.9.37, SM
- "Tuesday afternoon", ms, 2pp, 7.9.[?], WH, visit to a dance hall and the beach boating pool
- "The Sea", ts, 2pp, 21.8.[?]
"The Green Flash", ts, 1p, transcript of an article in the Gazette, 19.4.38, about a ray of light that appears on the horizon at Blackpool and other parts of the earth, drawing of the coastline attached
Newspaper cuttings (3)
57/B Clothes
- Observer accounts
- "Clothes", ts, 6pp, 23.6.[?], SM, what people are
wearing
- "Sunday Afternoon", ts, 2pp, 5.9.[?], HH, what people are wearing
- Untitled document, ms, 5pp, chart comparing clothes worn in Worktown and Blackpool
- "Girls", ms, 1p, list of clothing
- Drawing of a [dressing table], [JS]
- "Sunday Afternoon", ts, 2pp, 5.9.[?], HH, what people are wearing
57/C Cinema, shows and the circus
"Proposals for grand spectacular pageant at Blackpool Season 1934", ts, 6pp
- Observer accounts
- "The Grand", ms, 1p, 28.5.[?], WH, (incomplete lacks
pp1-2)
- "Blackpool", ms, 1p, 2.7.[?], LT, the Odeon Cinema
- "Blackpool", ms, 1p, 6.7.[?], LT, brief note about the opening of a new theatre
- "Palace", ms, 1p, 1.9.[?], JLW, brief account of two acts of a play
- "Tower Circus", ms/ts, 3pp, 1.9.37
- "The Circus", ts, 2pp, 1.9.37, SF, interviews with members of the circus
- "Pierrot Show The Royal Follies", ms, 6pp, 3.9.37
- "Royal Follies", ts, 2pp, 3.9.[?], JW, (incomplete lacks pp1-2)
- Untitled document, ms, 9pp, BD, interviews with staff at various cinemas
- "Indian Theatre", ms, 3pp
- "Interview with Reginald Dixon", ts, 2pp, 29.12.37, HH
- "Satisfaction", ms, 1p, extract from a play set in a newspaper editor's office
- "Blackpool", ms, 1p, 2.7.[?], LT, the Odeon Cinema
Newspaper cuttings (19)
Magazine cutting (1)
Show programme cuttings (6)
57/D Dance Halls
- Observer accounts
- "Tower ballroom", ms, 8pp, 4.9.37
- "Central Pier", ts, 2pp, 4.9.37, RE, dance
- "Palace Ballroom", ts, 2pp, 4.9.37, SF
- "Tower Ballroom", ts, 3pp, 4.9.[?], [lacks p1 and pp4-5]
- "Winter Gardens", ts, 2pp, 6.9.[?], SF, dance
- "Dance Hall", ms, 1p, 7.9.[?], WH [incomplete]
- "Tower Ballroom", ts, 3pp, 7.9.[?], TH
- "Tower", ms/ts, 3pp, 7.9.[?], dance
- "Empress Ballroom, Winter gardens", ts, 1p, 13.9.[?], TH
- "Tower Ballroom", ts, 1p, 13.9.[?], TH
- "Tower Ballroom", ts, 2pp, 20.10.37, JM-J
- "Tower Survey", ts, 8pp, 27.11.37, IR, dancing and conversations
- "Dance Observations", ms, 1p, 9.4.38, chart
- Misc 2pp torn from a book, Rex Records, July 1938
- "Central Pier", ts, 2pp, 4.9.37, RE, dance
57/E Religion
- Observer accounts
- "St. Augustines", ts, 1p, 18.5.[?], JW
- "Service at Whitegate Baptist Church", ms/ts, 5pp, 5.9.37, JT
- "Trinity Methodist", ts, 2pp, 5.9.[?], BB, service
- "Christadelphian Meeting, 37 George Street, Blackpool", ts, 2pp, 5.9.37 G[?],
- "Holy Trinity (South Shore) Parish Church Sunday School", ts, 2pp, 19.6.[?], children's flower service, order of procession
- "Service at Whitegate Baptist Church", ms/ts, 5pp, 5.9.37, JT
57/F Follows and counts
- Observer follows
- "First three customers after lunch ...", ts, 1p,
31.7.37, follow
- "August Bank Holiday", ts, 3pp, 8.37., HH
- Untitled document, ms, 2pp, 6.9.[?]
- "Squires Gate Camp", ms, 1p, 6.9.[?], EB
- Untitled document, ts, 3pp, 8.9.[?], GF
- "Woolworth's ...", ts, 1p, 13.9.[?], THH
- "Blackpool", ms, 3pp, 15.4.38, GF
- "Blackpool follow", ms, 1p, chart
- "August Bank Holiday", ts, 3pp, 8.37., HH
- Observer accounts
- "Counts at the late night dance, Winter Gardens
Empress Ballroom", ts, 2pp, 25.8.[37], RP
- "Seats and Railings", ms, 11pp, 3.9.-4.9.[?], HH
- "North Pier count of the seats and the people there", ms/ts, 25pp, 4.9.[?], JW
- "Account of Saturday after arriving on Blackpool front at 8.30", ms/ts, 9pp, 4.9.37, JT
- "Saturday evening", ts, 1p, 4.9.37, IR
- Untitled document, index card, ms, numbers on beach, 4.9.37
- "Central Pier to Manchester Sq beach", ms, 1p, 7.9.[?], EB/AB
- "Beach Count", ms, 2pp, 8.9.37
- "Central Pier count of seats and people there", ms, 15pp
- "Strip Count", ms, 1p, 8.9.[?], chart
- "Tower Bar counts", ms, 1p
- Untitled document, ms, 3pp, [HH], count of seats and rails
- "Pop on sands", ms, 2pp, plan 1 and 2
- Untitled document, ts, 3pp, reference to graphs and diagrams of counts
- "Remarks about illuminations tableaux", ms, 1p, analysis of remarks
- "Seats and Railings", ms, 11pp, 3.9.-4.9.[?], HH
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