“Commencing at the Sea opposite the centre of West-street, thence along and including the south side of West-street, the south side of Birley-street to Abingdon-street, thence along and including the west side of Abingdon-street to Church-street, thence along and including the south side of Church-street to Lower King-street, thence along and including the west side of Lower King-street to Adelaide-street, thence along and including the north side of Adelaide-street, the north side of Adelaide-place, across the Promenade to the Sea.
BRUNSWICK WARD.
“Commencing at the Sea opposite the centre of Adelaide-place, thence along and including the south side of Adelaide-place, the south side of Adelaide-street to Lower King-street, thence along and including the east side of Lower King-street to Church-street, thence along and including the south side of Church-street, the south side of Raikes Hill, the south side of Raikes-road, the south side of Layton-road, the south side of Dykes-lane to the existing township boundary, thence along the same boundary beyond the Whinney Heys, around the Belle Vue Gardens, southward of Raikes Hall Gardens to the centre of Revoe-road, thence along and including the north side of Revoe-road, the north side of Chapel-street, across the Promenade to the Sea.
FOXHALL WARD.
“Commencing at the Sea opposite to the end of Chapel-street, thence along and including the south side of Chapel-street, the south side of Revoe-road to the existing township boundary, thence south-westerly, and thence south-easterly along the same boundary to the centre of Cow Gap-lane, thence west along and including the north side of Cow Gap-lane to Lytham-road, thence along and including the east side of Lytham-road to Alexandra-road, thence along and including the north side of Alexandra-road, across the Promenade to the Sea.
WATERLOO WARD.
“Commencing at the Sea opposite the centre of Alexandra-road, thence along and including the south side of Alexandra-road to Lytham-road, thence along and including the west side of Lytham-road to Cow Gap-lane, thence eastward, along and including the south side of Cow Gap-lane to the existing township boundary, thence south-easterly, along the same boundary on the easterly side of Hawes Side-road, the north side of Layton-lane, across the Blackpool and Lytham Railway to the Sea at Star Hills.”
The election of councillors took place at the date specified in the charter, under the superintendence of Mr. William Porter, of Fleetwood and Blackpool, who had been nominated by the authorities of the town as returning officer. On the 19th of April the gentlemen elected assembled in the old board-room and appointed aldermen and a mayor from amongst themselves, the vacancies thus created being supplied by another appeal to the burgesses of those wards whose representatives had been elevated to the aldermanic bench. The first completed town council of Blackpool consisted of—
| Alderman | William Henry Cocker (the mayor) | Bank Hey | Ward. | |
| ” | Thomas McNaughtan, M.D. | Claremont | ” | |
| ” | Thomas Lambert Masheter | Talbot | ” | |
| ” | John Hardman | Foxhall | ” | |
| ” | Francis Parnell | Waterloo | ” | |
| ” | J. E. B. Cocker | Brunswick | ” | |
| Councillor | John Braithwaite | ⎫ | Claremont | ” |
| ” | William Bailey | ⎬ | ||
| ” | Leslie Jones, M.D. | ⎭ | ||
| ” | T. Challinor | ⎫ | Talbot | ” |
| ” | R. Marshall | ⎬ | ||
| ” | John Fisher | ⎭ | ||
| ” | John Coulson | ⎫ | Bank Hey | ” |
| ” | George Ormrod | ⎬ | ||
| ” | Henry Fisher | ⎭ | ||
| ” | George Bonny | ⎫ | Brunswick | ” |
| ” | Robert Mather | ⎬ | ||
| ” | John William Mycock | ⎭ | ||
| ” | James Blundell Fisher | ⎫ | Foxhall | ” |
| ” | Alfred Anderson | ⎬ | ||
| ” | Robert Bickerstaffe, jun. | ⎭ | ||
| ” | Francis Parnell | ⎫ | Waterloo | ” |
| ” | Richard Gorst | ⎬ | ||
| ” | Lawrence Hall | ⎭ | ||
| William Mawdsley Charnley, esq., solicitor, town-clerk. | ||||