Suggestions for development of the Fylde History Network are welcome.

Please email mc.storey@virgin.net

For further information please email or phone

PETER SHAKESHAFT 01253 720852 peter.shakeshaft@btinternet.com

CHRISTINE STOREY 01253 885167

updated August 2010

From Pilling to Warton and from Blackpool to Garstang a good deal of research is being done across the Fylde which would be of great interest to all local historians in the area, but currently there is no system for liaising and communicating between the Local History Societies or between Local Historians.

Peter and Maureen Shakeshaft and Christine Storey arranged a meeting to which they invited all like minded local historians in the Fylde in order to consider how links could be forged and the results of research shared.  

Dr Alan Crosby spoke to  over 50 local historians who took up the invitation to attend the inaugural meeting of the Fylde History Network in Staining Village Hall on Saturday January 16th 2010.

But - where are boundaries of the Fylde? Is Over Wyre part of the Fylde? In the Domesday Survey Amounderness stretched as far east as Ribchester.

Dr Alan Crosby, the guest speaker, spoke about the Fylde as a distinct and significant area of Lancashire, from the first use of the name ‘Amounderness’ in the 10th century to the world-wide significance of the rise of Blackpool in the 19th and 20th, addressing both the historic isolation of the area and the links between its local communities. As he spoke he touched on potential topics for research which might appeal to local historians in the Fylde.

Peter Shakeshaft led the discussions which followed, encouraging local historians to consider setting up a Local History Society in their area where none existed.

Refreshments gave people an opportunity for chatting and for browsing the selection of Fylde books, pictures and documents on Bob Dobson’s stall.

Dr Alan Crosby spoke to over 50 local historians at the inaugural meeting of the Fylde History Network

John Speed’s map of 1610

Amounderness in the Domesday Survey

2010