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Advert and pictures of the gardens from the 1896
Guide to St.Annes.
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“St.
George's Gardens was a paradise of wilderness for roving boys. From
the present Empire Picture Palace to the present entrance stretched
a long greenhouse, on whose walls grew scrumptious peaches. Some
fell (always accidentally) into my mouth! The florists, Cartmells
(and before them Mr. John Ferguson), lived in the present entrance
houses.
To-day's bowling green was a grass tennis court, and our hard courts
near the aviary then formed a bowling green surrounded by banks,
later occupied by the first St. Annes Tennis Club, who removed the
bank on the Blackpool side for extensions.
Sims Reeves, during his singing visits to Blackpool, was a not
infrequent witness of our play. To-days rose garden was a
continuation of the high ground overlooking it, and beyond was the
little lake with island on which youthful St. Annes of that
generation learned to skate in the hard winters of the early
nineties."
Reminiscences of St.Annes in the 1890s. Henry Cooper, Lytham
St.Annes Express, 1932. |
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