It has its own shops, businesses and schools and lifes goes back more than a century. It’s home to many people and is a key commuter road to the centre of town. These evocative pictures take us on a journey through the years from the 1800s to noughties.
25. Memories of Devonshire Road
Cornthwaites Butchers, Devonshire Road, North Shore | National World
26. Memories of Devonshire Road
The junction of Red Bank Road, Devonshire Road and Bispham Road showing Bispham Library. Bispham Police Station now stands where the cottages left of centre are. The photograph appears to have been taken from the roof of the public toilets, 1950s | National World
28. Memories of Devonshire Road
The childhood home of Lady Mountbatten - The Knowle in Devonshire Road | National World
29. Memories of Devonshire Road
View from the Rock Gardens in Devonshire Road looking east. The tower (top left of centre) is Carleton Crematorium. The flat roofed building beyond the playing field is Arnold School for Girls ( later Greenlands) and the low buildings on the right were the Warbreck Hill government offices.The houses on Bispham Road and the junction with Samlesbury Avenue can also be seen, 1957 | National World
