Ashton Marine Park

By Geoff Cunliffe

_{Although we use the name Fairhaven Lake today, it hasn’t always been known as that.}

_{In 1926, Lord Ashton of Lancaster, the man who made a fortune out of linoleum, bought the lake and its surrounding park from the Fairhaven Estate Company for £34,000 and then presented it to the Lytham St.Annes Corporation.}

_{Lord Ashton also gave the park known as Ashton Gardens to the people of the Borough in 1914.  Apparently he was showing how grateful he was for all the pleasure the resort had given him.}

_{From then on, what we now know as Fairhaven Lake became known as the Ashton Marine Park. It was a name which lasted until well into the 1960s at least, and some boat tickets of the day carried that name as well as that of Fairhaven Lake:}