An Album of Thornton-Cleveleys by Catherine Rothwell F.L.A Page Six

Victoria Road, now the main shopping street of Thornton-Cleveleys, was originally called Ramper Road, this name being derived from ramparts or banks enclosing the marshland. Gravel from the beach was used in the making of the first road which led over Thornton Marsh and was orded by the Marsh Act Award in 1805 Through Trunnah, Fleetwood Hesketh arranged to build the road high in order to stop the tides.		Victoria Road, Cleveleys main shopping street
Victoria Road in Cleveleys looking West		This photo shows Victoria Road looking westward from Nutter Road in 1912. Ramper Road was re-named Victoria Road at the time of the Queens Jubilee. An old resident recalled that in 1909, when rates were less than 5/- in the pound, Victoria Square was offered at 2/6 a square yard. It then contained only a confectioners shop and a tea garden over which towered a pear tree. The same land sold in 1939 for £5 a square yard.
The opening of Shard Bridge in 1864 which was celebrated by a procession of wagonettes and horse drawn vehicles crossing the Wyre by bridge for the first time.		Sixty two trains made daily stops but passenger service was withdrawn on June 1st 1970. Where the Station stood has now become a shopping centre.

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