Breck Road
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Breck Road (formerly Breck Street; colloquially known as The Breck) is a road in
Poulton-le-Fylde Poulton-le-Fylde (), commonly shortened to Poulton, is a market town in Lancashire, England, situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde. In the 2021 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 18,115. There is evidence of human habitatio ...
,
Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...
, England. Originally known as Breck Street, it runs for about from Chapel Street, Ball Street and Vicarage Road in the south to Amounderness Way (the A585) in the north. The road is one-way northbound between its Chapel Street/Ball Street/Vicarage Road junction and Victoria Road, just beyond Poulton-le-Fylde railway station. It is part of the A588, a designation it picks up from Chapel Street. Amounderness Way eastbound inherits the A588 designation. Sources differ as to whether Breck Street was the former name of Breck Road or Station Road. An October 1926 edition of ''
The London Gazette ''The London Gazette'', known generally as ''The Gazette'', is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, i ...
'' lists all three streets.


Notable landmarks

* 31 Breck Road (formerly the home of
George Henry Bernasconi George Henry Bernasconi (c. 1842–1916) was a Birmingham artist, the son of George Vincent Bernasconi, and of the same family as Francis Bernasconi.
) * Poulton-le-Fylde railway station (built in 1896) * Wyre Civic Centre (formerly Cotton Industry Convalescent Home and the Mary MacArthur Home) A Jubilee Arch stood in front of today's Civic Centre until 1980. The Ship Inn once stood at today's 2 Breck Road, a space now occupied by The Cube restaurant. The Ship was popular with Fleetwood seamen, travelling labourers and locals. Storey (2001), p. 96 The Royal Oak Hotel stood at the corner of Breck Road and Station Road between 1842 and 2018, when it was demolished. Across Breck Road stood the Railway & Station Hotel, built in 1838. Breck House, across from today's Breck Lodge, was the home of James Sykes, a wine merchant from Liverpool. It is now a housing estate, while the public swimming pool stands on part of its former gardens. In 1876, a chapel and presbytery, along with "elegant Gothic schools" connected thereto, were mentioned. This is St John's Chapel, at the corner of Moorland Road, which was built in 1813 and is
Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...
. File:Poulton railway station, 2023.jpg, Poulton-le-Fylde railway station File:The Royal Oak, Poulton-le-Fylde - geograph.org.uk - 927016.jpg, The now-demolished Royal Oak Hotel File:Breck Lodge.jpg, Breck Lodge File:Wyre Civic Centre.jpg, Wyre Civic Centre


History

In 1940, during
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, Breck Road was chosen by the
Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
as one of two sites for personnel with minor infectious diseases to regain health. It was named "Emergency Hospital"; the other site was the Convalescent Home at
Lytham Hall Lytham Hall is an 18th-century Georgian country house in Lytham, Lancashire, from the centre of the town, in of wooded parkland. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, the only on ...
.


Public transportation

Breck Road is served by Blackpool Transport's routes 5C, 74 and 75 and Transpora's route 523.


References

{{reflist Poulton-le-Fylde Roads in Lancashire