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Information on Fleetwood



Fleetwood is a town within the Wyre district of Lancashire, England, lying on the northwest corner of the Fylde and forming part of the Greater Blackpool conurbation with the town of Blackpool being the first planned community of the Victorian era.

The once prominent deep sea fishing port of Fleetwood is a seaside resort serving as a quiet contrast to nearby Blackpool.

Pleasure and commercial service to the Isle of Man, Ardrossan and Belfast began in the 1860s as Fleetwood’s port expanded and the railway line extended to the steamer pier opposite Queen’s Terrace where a new passenger station was built in 1883.

Fleetwood’s position as one of three major fishing ports in England was cemented at the turn of the century by James Marr when he brought a fleet of steam trawlers to Fleetwood with the first one the Lark being launched in 1891.



An electric tramway was constructed in the 1890s linking the fishing town of Fleetwood to the seaside resort of Blackpool and remains in operation today with Fleetwood being the only town in Britain where trams run the full length of its main street and sharing its space with cars.



Fleetwood is also home to the last new seaside pier (1910) to be built in the United Kingdom.

By the 1920s over 9,000 people were employed by the fishing industry and with this the sea front along the north shore was developed in resort fashion with the Marine Hall entertainment complex in 1935, golf course in 1931 and the Model Yacht Pond in 1932.
Fleetwood was also the home of British Chemical company United Alkali Company Limited which was formed in 1890 and who took over the salt works which became an ammonia processing plant  producing Soda Ash (also known as Washing Soda, Soda Crystals and Sodium Carbonate) by the Leblanc process and used in glass, textiles, soap and paper industries and in 1926 it became one of the top four British Chemical Companies with its merger with Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives and British Dyestuffs Corporation to form Imperial Chemical Industries, ICI, with this came considerable expansion and the building of and adjacent chemical plant known as ICI Hillhouse.

Additional housing was built during the 20s and 30s as the area around the town developed and a further boom occurred due to the rail corridor along the eastern side of the town, but by the 1960s Fleetwood began to decline economically and the last ferry to the Isle of man sailed in 1961 and the main railway station closed in 1966 due to the Beeching cuts thus resulting in the passenger terminus relocating to Wyre Dock station which inturn closed in 1970 as the branch line from Poulton was taken out of service.

As Blackpool expanded its attractions fewer day visitors came to Fleetwood and in 1999 the Hillhouse plant closed, the Cod Wars of the 60s and 70s a dispute over fishing rights between the United Kingdom and Iceland destroyed the fishing industry with the last deep sea trawler leaving the town in 1982.

The area around the old railway station was developed into a container port facility in 1973 with P&O operating a container service to Larne in Northern Ireland and a Roll-on/Roll-off ferry service was introduced in 1975 and the redevelopment of the largely derelict Dock Street area with improved road access to the town to support the container traffic until 2004 when Stena Line bought the route and increased the service to three times a day.

The former Wyre Dock was redeveloped in 1995 to form the Fleetwood Freeport retail centre and Marina along with new housing at the north end of the marina.


 

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