POPULAR BLACKPOOL
TO BE REMODELLED. Several million pounds are involved in the most ambitious planning scheme yet undertaken by a British, pleasure resort, shortly to be carried through at Blackpool. . Within the next few years the corporation proposes to remodel the heart of the borough and rebuild the busiest of its five railway stations which serve millions of visitors annually.
Private projects include the erection of a new opera house to seat 3,000, a variety theatre, and two departmental stores on the London pattern.
Of £1,750,000 which the corporation seeks powers from Parliament to borrow, almost £500,000 is to be spent on acquiring the central railway terminal, which, first built 70 years ago. when the population of the town was a fraction of its present 100,000, is now a congested bottle-neck. Gas works near the beach are to be moved at a cost of £123,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 9
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145POPULAR BLACKPOOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 9
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