Now this is freaky...not only was the palace torn down the year i was born...but you only went and loaded it up on my exact birthday...thanks for loading
Regarding the murder of the little girl, she was called Mandy who was about five or six years old. Her parents kept a stall in the indoor market hall, next door to the stall that my father owned. I remember it well. The murderer was eventually caught and it turned out to be a night porter who was employed at the Palace Hotel. I lived in Southport from 1951 - 1963 and I was about fourteen years old at the time this murder happened. So sad to see the Palace being demolished, it was such a grand hotel during the fifties when I remembered it.
I remember that hotel very well, when l lived in Southport In1960 when my sister got married I was bridesmaid the wedding reception was there & also my cousin got married there too in1966 those were the days yes a lot of entertainment such as dances where held there but alas, atrocities happened later on and that's why it became haunted hence demolition
Despite me being a millenial I am very interested in the history and buildings in my local area and i am gutted that i never had a chance to see this magnificent building.
To debunk local rumours, there is no evidence that the hotel was built the wrong way round and the architect definitely did not commit suicide by jumping off the roof. William Mangnall actually died of consumption at Lord Street, Southport, Lord Street in 1868, two years after the hotel was opened and he was accredited with the design of many other splendid buildings throughout Greater Manchester but also one other in Southport the Victoria Hotel which was built directly opposite the pier. With such vast experience he would not have built a building which faced the wrong way. To allow further accreditation to William Mangnall, notice the balconies pictured at the front elevation (if you look at a historic picture of the construction) which are facing to the south east. This is how he may have considered maximising exposure to the light and warmth of the sun all the year round.
Not sure if you guys gives a shit but if you're stoned like me atm then you can stream pretty much all of the new series on InstaFlixxer. I've been streaming with my gf for the last few months =)
cant believe what I am seeing I am from Southport but now living in Spain and remember the Palace Hotel. i was 7 years old when It was demolished but remember walking past the hotel as my mum told me the story of the ghost that lived there. My mum actually bought a set of wooden coat hangers from the Palace Hotel. Thanks for uploading this, I cant tell you hoe much i have enjoyed going back to my childhood. Thanks Paul
Can I ask where you got this footage, my grandad recorded this and put the film together from our house across the road. You can see my dad as a boy on the film.
Hi Kurt, Got this many years ago on cd I think from a used record shop on a visit to Southport. It was of particular interest to me as I worked at the Palace in the early ‘60’s. There was nothing on the cd to indicate when it was recorded and by whom, just one of those anonymous discs. I though at the time it would good to put it on line for posterity which is good as the cd disappeared along with the rest of my collection some time ago.
I moved to the area the year after demolition so sadly never saw the building standing. I do remember much talk about it being haunted whilst at school though. Can anyone tell me exactly what the various bits of music used in the video are please ?. I believe the first piece is "The Merry Widow" but I have never heard that exact arrangement before and what is the organ music?. Incidentally, the legendary film producer Tony Tenser who later resided in Southport and made 2 films at the hotel in '68, tried to buy the building with Southport Council for film use to save it from the bulldozer.. I dearly wish he had been successful.......
Wonderful memories of the Palace Hotel met the Walker brothers Bobby Moore and the Manchester Utd football team there in including George Best great treasures of my past.
My father used to tell me stories about how he and some friends got into the site one night as it was being demolished. He said it was very creepy and that there was some odd things happening with the lifts.
This hotel was the location for the 1969 film comedy What's Good for the Goose starring Norman Wisdom and Sally Geeson. This can be found on You Tube and seen in happier times. Interesting footage presumably Super-8 ?
there is sadly a lot of fallacy to what is being spoken true the hotel was haunted but by what or whom no one knows to this day there was the sad murder of the little girl in the early sixties and there was ghostly footsteps of womens shoes walking across the entrance hall. But the Architect did not commit suicide as was stated he died a broken man in rooms of Lord street the fisherman's rest got it name to one particular nautical disaster just of the Birkdale coast those who perished were laid out on the straw of the the then coach house later a off license for the hotel and now in its own right a public house round the bar is or was a brass rail held to the bar with Mermaids one for every fisherman who perished that fateful night. And to set the record straight the Palace was not built the wrong way round the best suites were as always destined to overlook Southport and the cheaper rooms (for valet and ladies maids) were built to face the cold sea.
Well at least the architect has been exonerated nothing worse than a suicide in the family as for the right way round theory I will have to delve into the archives
The comments in this wikipedia blog strikes out all that was said as wrong as I stated the Architect did die of consumption and the hotel was built the correct way round en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkdale_Palace_Hotel just let us all take 5 to remember the much maligned Architect.
I just can't believe that Southport or was It Lancashire Council? Could destroy such a beautiful building. I was born in 1983 and only lived in Birkdale till I was three years old, yet it still breaks my heart to watch this film. Too bad that Tenser guy couldn't save it from demolition. : (
well i just found out about this,very sad as just watch a old film with Norman wisdom in ,filmed around 1969 at this hotel called What's Good For The Goose (1969),some info links dandyinaspic.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/whats-good-for-goose-1969.html and here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Good_for_the_Goose no wonder i could not find this film location in 2018! it must have been film very close to the date before demolition. Glad I spotted this thanks. rob
PETER ANTHONY the disaster you refere to was The Mexico disaster of 9 December 1886. On 9 December 1886 the Mexico, a Hamburg-registered barque bound for Guayaquil from Liverpool went aground near Southport, in a full west north westerly gale. 3 lifeboats went out that night 27 men drowned that,one of them A Rimmer from Marshside Southport and an ancestor who was my grandfathers mothers father
The dead bodies of the lifeboat men were laid out in the coach house. That's the only part of the building which survives, I believe. It is of course a pub, th Fisherman's Rest. Used to be good for going to with mates in the late nineties, and 2000 New Year's Day.
Too many urban myths surrounding this hotel. The hotel was never built the wrong way round. The architect did not commit suicide. My father bought the hotel and had it demolished to make way for new housing. The ghost stories were made up by my father and the demolition contractors in the hope it would frighten children and keep them away.
I believe that The Palace never made much money for any of the owners. I worked there in 1963 and whilst it wasn’t run down, a great deal of money would have been needed to spruce it up without any guarantee of a return on the capital outlay. Sad, but a matter of finance.
Now this is freaky...not only was the palace torn down the year i was born...but you only went and loaded it up on my exact birthday...thanks for loading
Regarding the murder of the little girl, she was called Mandy who was about five or six years old. Her parents kept a stall in the indoor market hall, next door to the stall that my father owned. I remember it well. The murderer was eventually caught and it turned out to be a night porter who was employed at the Palace Hotel. I lived in Southport from 1951 - 1963 and I was about fourteen years old at the time this murder happened.
So sad to see the Palace being demolished, it was such a grand hotel during the fifties when I remembered it.
I remember that hotel very well, when l lived in Southport
In1960 when my sister got married I was bridesmaid the wedding reception was there & also my cousin got married there too in1966 those were the days yes a lot of entertainment such as dances where held there but alas, atrocities happened later on and that's why it became haunted hence demolition
Despite me being a millenial I am very interested in the history and buildings in my local area and i am gutted that i never had a chance to see this magnificent building.
We rented a house a few years back that was built over it , it did not have a nice feeling liveing there
To debunk local rumours, there is no evidence that the hotel was built the wrong way round and the architect definitely did not commit suicide by jumping off the roof. William Mangnall actually died of consumption at Lord Street, Southport, Lord Street in 1868, two years after the hotel was opened and he was accredited with the design of many other splendid buildings throughout Greater Manchester but also one other in Southport the Victoria Hotel which was built directly opposite the pier. With such vast experience he would not have built a building which faced the wrong way. To allow further accreditation to William Mangnall, notice the balconies pictured at the front elevation (if you look at a historic picture of the construction) which are facing to the south east. This is how he may have considered maximising exposure to the light and warmth of the sun all the year round.
Soon after, a spiteful Sefton council became the masters and destroyed many other Southport landmarks or allowed them to fall into ruin.
Not sure if you guys gives a shit but if you're stoned like me atm then you can stream pretty much all of the new series on InstaFlixxer. I've been streaming with my gf for the last few months =)
@Leon Tucker definitely, I have been watching on instaflixxer for years myself =)
cant believe what I am seeing I am from Southport but now living in Spain and remember the Palace Hotel. i was 7 years old when It was demolished but remember walking past the hotel as my mum told me the story of the ghost that lived there. My mum actually bought a set of wooden coat hangers from the Palace Hotel. Thanks for uploading this, I cant tell you hoe much i have enjoyed going back to my childhood. Thanks Paul
I remember that place, seeing it from a distance from the beach as a kid. It fascinated me. A tragedy it was demolished. What a terrible waste.
Can I ask where you got this footage, my grandad recorded this and put the film together from our house across the road. You can see my dad as a boy on the film.
Hi Kurt,
Got this many years ago on cd I think from a used record shop on a visit to Southport. It was of particular interest to me as I worked at the Palace in the early ‘60’s. There was nothing on the cd to indicate when it was recorded and by whom, just one of those anonymous discs. I though at the time it would good to put it on line for posterity which is good as the cd disappeared along with the rest of my collection some time ago.
I moved to the area the year after demolition so sadly never saw the building standing. I do remember much talk about it being haunted whilst at school though.
Can anyone tell me exactly what the various bits of music used in the video are please ?. I believe the first piece is "The Merry Widow" but I have never heard that exact arrangement before and what is the organ music?.
Incidentally, the legendary film producer Tony Tenser who later resided in Southport and made 2 films at the hotel in '68, tried to buy the building with Southport Council for film use to save it from the bulldozer.. I dearly wish he had been successful.......
interesting stuff, incredible building, shame it was demolished
Wonderful memories of the Palace Hotel met the Walker brothers Bobby Moore and the Manchester Utd football team there in including George Best great treasures of my past.
My father used to tell me stories about how he and some friends got into the site one night as it was being demolished. He said it was very creepy and that there was some odd things happening with the lifts.
Sad that it all got pulled down.
This hotel was the location for the 1969 film comedy What's Good for the Goose starring Norman Wisdom and Sally Geeson. This can be found on You Tube and seen in happier times. Interesting footage presumably Super-8 ?
there is sadly a lot of fallacy to what is being spoken true the hotel was haunted but by what or whom no one knows to this day there was the sad murder of the little girl in the early sixties and there was ghostly footsteps of womens shoes walking across the entrance hall. But the Architect did not commit suicide as was stated he died a broken man in rooms of Lord street the fisherman's rest got it name to one particular nautical disaster just of the Birkdale coast those who perished were laid out on the straw of the the then coach house later a off license for the hotel and now in its own right a public house round the bar is or was a brass rail held to the bar with Mermaids one for every fisherman who perished that fateful night. And to set the record straight the Palace was not built the wrong way round the best suites were as always destined to overlook Southport and the cheaper rooms (for valet and ladies maids) were built to face the cold sea.
Well at least the architect has been exonerated nothing worse than a suicide in the family as for the right way round theory I will have to delve into the archives
The comments in this wikipedia blog strikes out all that was said as wrong as I stated the Architect did die of consumption and the hotel was built the correct way round en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkdale_Palace_Hotel just let us all take 5 to remember the much maligned Architect.
Went round here with Blackpool’s south shore rockers ghosthunting
I just can't believe that Southport or was It Lancashire Council? Could destroy such a beautiful building. I was born in 1983 and only lived in Birkdale till I was three years old, yet it still breaks my heart to watch this film. Too bad that Tenser guy couldn't save it from demolition. : (
well i just found out about this,very sad as just watch a old film with Norman wisdom in ,filmed around 1969 at this hotel called What's Good For The Goose (1969),some info links dandyinaspic.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/whats-good-for-goose-1969.html and here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Good_for_the_Goose no wonder i could not find this film location in 2018! it must have been film very close to the date before demolition. Glad I spotted this thanks.
rob
PETER ANTHONY the disaster you refere to was The Mexico disaster of 9 December 1886. On 9 December 1886 the Mexico, a Hamburg-registered barque bound for Guayaquil from Liverpool went aground near Southport, in a full west north westerly gale. 3 lifeboats went out that night 27 men drowned that,one of them A Rimmer from Marshside Southport and an ancestor who was my grandfathers mothers father
The dead bodies of the lifeboat men were laid out in the coach house. That's the only part of the building which survives, I believe. It is of course a pub, th Fisherman's Rest. Used to be good for going to with mates in the late nineties, and 2000 New Year's Day.
Fantastic video! Thank you
Excellent footage.
That is so so sad , tragic in a way.. What was replaced in that spot?.Thank you for sharing this clip
Houses. Boring 1970s houses. Such a shame.
Too many urban myths surrounding this hotel. The hotel was never built the wrong way round. The architect did not commit suicide. My father bought the hotel and had it demolished to make way for new housing. The ghost stories were made up by my father and the demolition contractors in the hope it would frighten children and keep them away.
so much of Southport's history has been destroyed. Thanks to the sefton run council
It's terrible council. No respect for the past whatsoever. That's way Lord Street is in depressing state.
Cannot open this. Please could you repost it as I have been looking for this for many years. Thank you
Could I ask why on earth was such a grand victorian building demolished 😪😪 what was wrong with it 🤔🤔🤔 thanks Paula x
I believe that The Palace never made much money for any of the owners. I worked there in 1963 and whilst it wasn’t run down, a great deal of money would have been needed to spruce it up without any guarantee of a return on the capital outlay. Sad, but a matter of finance.
what a shame!! thx for upload
Wow, Thank You
All that is left is the gate keepers place, turned into a small pub
Kenneth Drewary The Fisherman’s Rest was a pub long before The Palace was demolished.
Very sad.Shame Queen Victoria couldn`t be rescued.
Looks like a horror movie
This the Luigi's mansion type one