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Community History
Guide to the Local Collections
St Annes Collection
Fylde District.
254 Clifton Drive South
St Annes on Sea
Lancashire
FY8 1NR
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4. Scope and arrangement of the collection
The collection is medium-sized, holding material on the county of Lancashire in general, with more detailed material on Lytham St Anne's, Kirkham and the rural hinterland of Fylde District.
5. Catalogues and bibliographies
The Local Studies catalogue is available as part of the Lancashire County Library and Information Service's Talis online catalogue. It is possible to search by author, title, keyword, subject and class number; it uses the Lancashire Local Studies Classification Scheme. All volumes of the Lancashire Bibliography published to date are held, together with the Guide to the Lancashire Record Office, its Supplement, and its family history guide Finding Folk.
Barrett's directories for either Blackpool and the Fylde or Preston and District -1882, 1898, 1904, 1907, 1924, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1948, 1952.
Mannex directories - 1851,1854.
Express directories for St. Annes-on-the-Sea - 1903, 1907-1909
Baines History, directory and gazetteer of the county palatine of Lancaster - Vol. 1 (1824), Vol. 2 (1825)
The Blackpool Times: Fylde Yearbook - 1898 and 1900-1934.
Pigot's Commercial Directory for Cumberland, Lancashire and Westmorland - 1828-29
Kelly's Directory of Lancashire - 1924
North Western Counties of England Directory - 1932, 1961-62
Blackburn, Burnley, Preston Barrow and District (including Blackpool) Trade Directory - 1937-38
Preston , Blackpool and District Directory and Buyer's Guide - 1938
Directories can be found on the Library's online catalogue.
Lytham St Anne's, 1970 -
Fylde District, 1982/83 -
None. The main collection of rate books for the county is held at the Lancashire Record Office.
9. Census enumerators' returns
Copies of census enumerators' returns are available on microfilm for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1881 for villages and towns of the Fylde District. A detailed list of coverage is available. The census returns for 1891 and 1901 are on microfiche. Some indices are provided by the Lancashire Family History Society.
All our libraries provide free access to the Ancestry website which gives access to Census Records for England, Wales and Scotland (1841-1901).
Parish Registers held on microfiche: we hold copies of some of the original registers for Fylde and parts of Wyre dating up to 1900 held in the Lancashire Record Office. An index is available.
Various Lancashire Parish Register Society volumes for Fylde and Wyre.
The 1992 edition of the International Genealogical Index (IGI) is available on microfiche for Lancashire. The complete IGI is also available on line at www.familysearch.org.
The main collection of parish records for the county is held at the Lancashire Record Office.
Blackpool and Fleetwood Gazette and St Annes and Fylde News 1882-1890
Lytham and Kirkham Times 1870-1888 (Title changed to Lytham Times in 1888)
Lytham St Anne's Express 1926 - . Not indexed. Microfilmed.
Lytham St Anne's Standard Nov. 1922 – 1930. Microfilmed.
Lytham Sun Apr-Dec, 1887. Microfilmed.
Lytham Times 1888-1927 (1898 not available)
St Anne's on Sea Express and District Advertiser 1904 - 1926. Not indexed. Microfilmed. (Title changed to Lytham St Anne's Express in 1926.)
Lancashire Lantern includes an index to stories from local newspapers covering several areas of the county. We have now started to index the Lytham St Annes newspapers.
HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. Transactions. Partial coverage. (Housed at Lytham Library.)
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. Transactions, vol.1- , 1883 - . Almost complete. (Housed at Lytham Library.)
The library holds a set of 6" to 1 mile and 2½" to 1 mile Ordnance Survey maps of the area of the Fylde area; the earliest sheet held is dated 1847.
A complete set of current O.S. sheets at 1:50,000 is held.
Other maps include William Yates's map of Lancashire (1796), some plans of the Clifton Estate and a complete set of Goad plans from 1970 to date for Lytham and St. Annes.
14. Council minutes and minutes of official bodies
LYTHAM ST ANNES URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Minutes, 1906 - 1973/74.
FYLDE BOROUGH COUNCIL. Minutes, 1974 - . (If these minutes are required, please give one day's notice.)
A collection of over 1,300 photographs and postcards is held at St Anne's Library covering all areas of the Fylde. All are indexed and photocopied for easy viewing. We are in the process of digitising these images and the Library Service is making them available on our Image Archive which includes photographs from the county's various library collections; this is available as part of Lancashire Lantern.
16. Sound and video recordings
None.
An extensive collection of documentary and pamphlet material is held at St. Anne's library. It is all indexed and all available for browsing/photocopying. The material covers both coastal and inland Fylde areas.
The main repository of archives for the county is held at the Lancashire Record Office.
None.
The IGI (International Genealogical Index) for Lancashire is held on microfiche.
Microfilm/fiche reader/printer, microfiche reader, photocopier.
21. Books useful as introductory reading
A good online source for the Lytham Area is the independently produced Lytham Online at http://www.lytham-online.co.u k . This is full of historical detail and images relating to the area around Lytham and St. Annes-on-Sea.
ASHTON, E. Lytham. Mather Bros., 1946.
BOWMAN, J. History of Lytham Charities: the remarkable story of a small bequest. Spring Bros., 1907.
BOWMAN, J. The Rise and development of Lytham St. Annes and the Fylde Coast towns. Lytham St. Annes Corporation, 1929.
BROWN, Kath. Lytham and St Annes; the reluctant resorts. Lancashire County Books, 1992.
CLARKE, T.A. Lytham - a short history. Lytham Times, n.d.
The CLIFTON papers, edited by Roland Cunliffe SHAW. Preston: Guardian Press, 1935.
COLLINS, Herbert C. Lancashire plain and seaboard. London: Dent, 1953.
A CURSORY description of Lytham and its adjacencies. Preston : A. Walker, 1813.
DAVIES, R.K. Companion to the Fylde. Birkenhead: Countrywise, 1982.
EYRE, K. Fylde Folk: Moss or Sand. 3rd. ed. The Author, 1971.
EYRE, K. Lytham St. Annes in old picture postcards. Zaltbommel (The Netherlands): European Collection of postcards, 1983.
EYRE, K.. 'Sand Grown' the Lytham St Anne's Story. 2nd. ed. Lytham: The Author, 1972.
FISHWICK , Henry. The History of the parish of Lytham. Manchester: The Chetham Society, 1907.
HALEY, R.A. Lytham St. Annes: a pictorial history. Chichester, Phillimore, 1995.
HARRISON, G. Rage of Sand. London: Benn, 1971.
HOOPER, Robin. "The Past and Present of Fylde Borough" in The Fylde Story. Glasgow & Assoc., 1988.
KENNEDY, John. The Clifton chronicle. Carnegie, 1990.
MOOREHOUSE, Sydney. Holiday Lancashire. London: Robert Hale, 1955.
PARRY, Keith. The Resorts of the Lancashire coast. David and Charles, 1983.
PORTER, J. History of the Fylde of Lancashire. Fleetwood: The Author, 1876, reprinted S.R. Pub., 1968.
RAMSBOTTOM, Martin. Looking around Lytham. Kirkham: Hedgehog Historical Publications, 1995.
ROTHWELL, Catherine. Lytham St. Annes in old photographs. Alan Sutton, 1993.
ROTHWELL, Catherine. Lytham St Annes in times past. Countryside Publications, 1978.
SHAKESHAFT, Peter. St Anne's on the Sea: a history. Carnegie Publishing, 2008
TAYLOR , J.H. In the days of my youth. Lytham St. Annes Express, 1932.
Victoria History of the County of Lancaster. London : Dawson, 1912 [1966 Reprint].
WALTON, John K. Wonderlands by the waves – a history of the seaside resorts of Lancashire. Preston: Lancashire County Books, 1992.
WHITTLE, Peter. Marina, or an historical and descriptive account of Blackpool, Lytham and Southport. Preston: P. Whittle, 1799.
WRIGHT, G.L. The History of 'The Lytham Charities'subsequently called 'The Lytham Schools Foundation'. Guardian Press, 1950.
22. Other Family History Sources
The Ancestry website, which includes Census Records for England Wales, Scotland the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands from 1841-1901, is freely available on public computers in all Lancashire Libraries and at Lancashire Record Office. Birth, Death and Marriage records and other Family History sources are also available through Ancestry.
The International Genealogical Index or Computer File Index of the Genealogical Society of Utah can be consulted on microfiche. This is also available on their Family Search website at www.familysearch.com.
The Library’s Online Reference Library www.lancashire.gov.uk/onrl also includes links to many other sources useful for Family and Community History.