Blackpool was the first municipality in the world to have electric street lighting, in Large areas of the promenade were wired in this pioneering use of electricity.
The Grand Theatre opened in , one of the first all-electric theatres in Britain. Footage from the Promenade, A skeleton of a 13,year-old elk was found in on Blackpool Old Road. It had man-made bone points, likely from spears, providing the first evidence of humans living on the Fylde dating as far back as the Palaeolithic era.
How Electricity Revolutionised Blackpool Blackpool was the first municipality in the world to have electric street lighting, in Did You Know? Creative Learning 14th November Connect Comfort and Uplift 9th November Comedy 4th November Connect Comfort and Uplift 2nd November Question Asked by billythebrit.
Currently voted the best answer. A stream running through peat made the water rather dark. HeavensArrow Answer has 5 votes. HeavensArrow 14 year member replies Answer has 5 votes.
Etymology Blackpool is believed to get its name from a long-gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog. This stream may be the Spen Dyke indicated on the edition of the OS. The water which ran into the sea at Blackpool was black from the peat and as the History section below indicates, the local dialect for stream was pul or poole, hence Black Poole.
0コメント