1850 Guide page 4
Of late years, several causes have contributed to enlarge and
improve this beautiful and interesting town; amongst which may
be mentioned the railway communication effected to it from all
parts of the kingdom, by the opening to Lytham of a branch of
the Preston and Wyre railway in 1846; the placing of the tenure
of the land a few years ago upon a more liberal basis, the
consequence of which has been a rapid extension of buildings,
handsome villas, and mansions of the wealthy.
 But
perhaps the most important cause of all is the great advantage
which the place has derived from the operation of an act of
parliament, called the Lytham Improvement Act, passed in 1847,
vesting the management of its local affairs in a board of
commissioners, the fruits of whose labours my be seen in the
erection of gas works, a handsome and commodious market-house,
the carrying out of a general system of sewerage, and other
sanitary regulations, thus conferring on the inhabitants and
visitors of Lytham most of the conveniences and advantages
possessed by the largest towns in the kingdom. |
