Miners' Convalescent Home, Blackpool
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Miners' Convalescent Home, Blackpool
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 13 Aug 2017
The Lancashire & North Staffordshire Miners' Convalescent Home at Bispham, was built between 1925 and 1927 in Baroque Revival style. It is built of red and light engineering brick, with terracotta dressings mainly to the ground floor. Towards the rear of the building there is a tower with an ogee cap. The building continued to function as a convalescent home until the 1980s and in 2005, was turned into apartments (Admiral Point http://www.admiralpointblackpool.info/history.html ). It is a grade II listed building (List entry Number: 1116645 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1116645 Historic England).
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Image Location
Latitude
53.845228
Longitude
-3.052502