Celebrating Southport
Celebrating Southport The north-west seaside resort of Southport can trace its origins back to 1792 when William Sutton, a pub landlord from Churchtown, built a bathing house in a sparsely populated…
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Celebrating Southport
The north-west seaside resort of Southport can trace its origins back to 1792 when William Sutton, a pub landlord from Churchtown, built a bathing house in a sparsely populated area a few miles down the coast. Within thirty years Southport, as it was renamed, was attracting over twenty thousand visitors annually.In this book, Margaret Brecknell celebrates the town's significant events and achievements, together with its notable local people from across the centuries. Although widely mocked at the time, Sutton realised the potential for a resort close to the newly constructed Leeds & Liverpool Canal.
Among those attracted here were The Greatest Showman P.T. Southport was viewed as more upmarket than its emerging rival, Blackpool. Barnum and the future French Emperor Napoleon III.
Southport later hosted some of the twentieth century's best-known entertainers including Charlie Chaplin,
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