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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