Acknowledgements

This book would not have been possible without the support of my family and the friendship of all those I have had the privilege of knowing over many years of my life.

Special Thanks

To Bridget Delia Carlyle. An inspiration to us all and without whom, this book would not have been possible. With special love and thanks to my gorgeous wife - for bringing our children Maxine, Diane, David, Lynne and Suzanne into the world, who have all played an invaluable part in creating this book.

To Diane Carlyle, for her patience and encouragement to keep going. Also for her never ending support of typing my 800 hand written pages into her computer and helping with photographs.

To Julia Loddington, for her kind acceptance to proofread my book of life stories and assisting with the book format.

To David Carlyle, for sharing with me his computer knowledge and guiding me in the right direction.

To Lynne and Ryan Kilpatrick, for helping with the copying of my photographs.

To Tim Kilpatrick for helping to arrange the photographs in the book, a painstaking endeavour done extremely thoroughly.

To Suzanne Carlyle, for artwork and design of the front cover for the book.

To Maxine Ramskill, for on many occasions jogging my memories of the when and where of events.

To David and Diane Hall, for all the copies of wonderful Old Bispham photographs and our conversations of our lives growing up in Bispham Village.

To all my fishing pals over my lifetime, without them being involved many of my stories could not have been told.

To Geoff and Sue Mallinson, for photographs and content and only a stone's throw away, for a name to a face of old Bispham folk.

To Pat Brennan and Ingrid Mallinson, for photographs loaned.

To Brenda (my niece) and Peter Taylor, my neighbours, always there for me when I need a helping hand to do a job around the house, best pals.

To good pals Mick and June Edge, for Mick's good memories of our fishing stories and photographs and our many fishing trips together right up to this day.

To Donald J. Sidebottom MBE for 25 wonderful years of doing business together.

To Margaret and Martin Hodgkinson, family friends for many years and Martin always on call for maintenance jobs on our house.

To Paul Wilson, of Studio D, who gave permission for me to use a photo of the old Bispham Destructor.

To Graham D Boyes, credited for the old photo of Ivy Cottage in Bispham Village.

To Mr James Kidson, of Arthur Winter Kidson, Preston, for permission to use the Taylor Reid photos of fabrication work.

To Joy Yates, editor of the Cumberland News, for permission to use old photos and paper cuttings, which I have collected over many years.

To Mr and Mrs Taryn Lamb, for kind permission for me to take photos of 16, Bangor Avenue, Bispham.

To Linda Scott, photographer and reporter for the Cumberland News for kind permission to use some of her photos.

To Nicola Adams, editor of the Blackpool Gazette credited for permission to use old photographs and paper cuttings which I have collected over many years. Special thanks to Helen Nicholas also of the Blackpool Gazette.

To Mrs Margaret Poulter, Chris and Rochelle of Hesketh Press Ltd, for their help and advice and doing the final printing of the book.