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 }
" William Bailey } Claremont "
" Leslie Jones, M.D. }
" T. Challinor }
" R. Marshall } Talbot "
" John Fisher }
" John Coulson }
" George Ormrod } Bank Hey "
" Henry Fisher }
" George Bonny }
" Robert Mather } Brunswick "
" John William Mycock }
" James Blundell Fisher }
" Alfred Anderson } Foxhall "
" Robert Bickerstaffe, jun. }
" Francis Parnell }
" Richard Gorst } Waterloo "
" Lawrence Hall }
William Mawdsley Charnley, esq., solicitor, town-clerk.
From the time when the subject of incorporation was first beginning to dawn upon the inhabitants as something to which the rapid extension and growing importance of their town was
