Category: Monthly Meetings

Monthly Meeting – Annual Robert Evan Mills Lecture – 17th November 2025

Monday, 17th November, at The Imperial Hotel Blackpool, it’s our November meeting. It will be the annual Robert Evan Mills lecture. This year the lecture is by Bev Carroll and titled. ‘Raikes Hall and the Royal Palace Gardens’.

Starting at 7pm. Non-members are welcome for a small donation £2. Please note the venue.

October Monthly Meeting Short Report

Monday 20th October 2025 at 7pm

There was a good turn out for our October meeting in the Holiday Inn Blackpool. A number of proposals were discussed and agreed before the guest speaker, Alistair Baines presented his talk ‘The Life and Times of a Sandgrown Architect’.

From building Sandcastles at Cleveleys to designing Council buildings, Schools, Colleges, Banks and more. With explanations of features and form. Building works such as the new Stanley Building transformation, Glasdon Innovation Centre and Knott End Golf Clubhouse.

The meeting was held at the Holiday Inn Blackpool on Monday 20th October 2025. Photo of Elaine our Chairman thanking Alistair, standing, for the talk.

News and Remembering

Our newsletter from Elaine

Our next meeting is on Monday 21st July 2025 at 7pm in the Holiday Inn, Talbot Road, Blackpool. The guest speaker is Claire Walmsley-Griffiths a local photographer who you may have seen at events.

Forthcoming Visits

Our next outing is to look around the Backlot Cinema at 11am on August 12th.  Rachel will have the board out for you to put your name down at our meeting next Monday (21st) at 7pm at the usual Holiday Inn.

Next Monday is also your chance to pay your £20 for our coach trip to the two Lancashire Mills on Thursday 4th September.  After next Monday it will be sent out to other organisations to fill up the coach. Seats on the bus will be booked on a first come with the cash basis!

Forthcoming Events

Also, from next Monday onward, tickets will be on sale (again £20) for our Afternoon Tea Awards ceremony in the Winter Gardens’ Spanish Hall on January 22nd 2026 – our 51st anniversary – at 1pm for a 1.30pm meal.  Yes!  I know that sounds a long way away but do you want to pay £20 in the middle of buying Christmas presents?  At the speed this year is going it will soon be Christmas!!!

Remembering Loraine Calvert

Finally, on a sadder note, I do hope that a lot of you make time in your busy schedules to say goodbye to our friend Loraine Calvert.  Loraine (yes, it is one ‘r’) worked so hard for the Blackpool Civic Trust both as a member and a Committee Member for such a long time that she deserves our proper farewell now.  Through ill health, Loraine had been ‘off the radar’ for the past few years but it didn’t mean that she had been forgotten.

The funeral is at St Stephen on the Cliffs at 12 noon this Friday (18th) before being taken to Carleton Crematorium.  The wake is being held at the Norbreck Bowling Club, Clovelly Ave, FY5 1RZ and all are welcome.

If you are coming to the wake, I would be grateful if you would let me know by tomorrow (Tuesday) please as Corrine, Loraine’s daughter, needs numbers for the catering.

Claire Walmsley Griffiths Guest Speaker

If I don’t see you on Friday, I do hope I see as many of you as possible on Monday.  Our speaker is Claire Walmsley, a local performance and heritage space photographer.  I am really looking forward to this as over the past number of years Claire has been there with her camera at so many events that I have attended.  I am sure that this will apply to a lot of you when you see her and I think it will bring back happy memories for many of us.

Blackpool Civic Trust next monthly meeting 21st July 2025. Guest Speaker Claire Walmsley Griffiths
Our next meeting is on Monday 21st July 2025
Blackpool Civic Trust visit to Lightworks, Blackpool Illuminations Depot 11th July 2025