Derelict Bungalow and Fruit & Vegetable Shop, Lytham Road, Warton - 1

Image: © Terry Robinson Taken: 1 Mar 2013

I used to live in Warton and in the late 1960s / early 1970s walked to the Fruit & Vegetable Shop on most Saturdays ... not just to buy Fruit & Vegetables for my Mum and Dad ... but also to see and chat to the Girl who worked there. I moved away a few years later ... I wonder what did happen to her. I believe the Bungalow, Shop and adjoining field, in the picture, were compulsorily purchased in the mid 1970s with the intention being to build a junction for a proposed Warton By-Pass and the A584 Lytham Road. The Warton By-Pass was supposed to be an extension of the Freckleton By-Pass - Freckleton being the neighbouring village nearer to Preston. Freckleton did get its By-Pass in (I believe) 1986 and the proposed Warton By-Pass would have been built as a road off the small roundabout where the existing dual carriageway ends. The By-Pass would then have followed a line around and behind Warton Village and eventually would join the A584 where these buildings now still, just about, stand. Methinks the Warton By-Pass will never be built. The shown plot of land is now owned by the National Estates Council who inform me that they are planning to build houses on it. See also ... Image Image Image Image Image Image

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