New Offices for Fylde Water Board Dixon Street Blackpool

BLACKPOOL.- The Fylde Water Board recently invited competitive designs for new offices to be erected at the corner of Sefton‑street and Dixon Street, Blackpool, and on Wednesday week they met and adjudicated upon those submitted. The competition was limited to architects having offices within the Fylde Water Board area, and fifteen designs were sent in. After consideration the first prize was awarded the plans forwarded by Messrs H. and W. Wade, 27, Birley‑street, Blackpool, and St. Annes, under the motto of " Fair Trade." The total cost is estimated at £7,500, and the entrance is so arranged that it will be opposite Church‑street, so that the clocktower which will adorn the front will be seen from Church‑street along Temple‑street. It will be a three‑story building, with a basement, and built of brick and yellow‑stone facings. The accommodation will include C on the ground‑floor, chief and assistant collectors', engineer's, drawing, and outside manager's offices, and showroom ; on the first floor there is the board‑room to the front, with an ante‑room, offices for the clerk, superintendent and accountant, and accountant's clerk's, together with the telephone and typewriting rooms. [Building News 13 November 1903 page 653]