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Walkers Tussauds Photo
Gallery
On our
New Information pages, we
present the story of the fondly-remembered Walkers Tussauds Waxworks
on Royal Princes Parade. Here we present a gallery of photographs
related to the Waxworks and the people behind the popular
attraction. None of these images appear in Pennies by the Sea.
Brian Walker grooming
one of the waxworks exhibits from a stepladder in 1978.
Photograph: Wes Walker
Brian Walker carrying
one of his wax models outside Walkers Tussauds Waxworks.
Photograph: Wes Walker
One of two views of
Brian Walker's grandparents' Autodrome ride in Blackpool in 1946.
This ride operated on Blackpool's Golden Mile over 30 years before
Brian Walker opened the Movie & Television Hall of Fame/Movie & TV
World of Wax there. With a variety of highly popular showpieces, the
Thorntons were prominent showpeople. Click on image for a larger
view.
Photograph: Wes Walker
The Autodrome in this
and the previous photograph was positioned season after season at
the opposite side of the same block on which both Louis Tussauds
stands and on which Brian Walker's exhibition once stood. Brian
Walker closed his Blackpool attraction and pulled out of the resort
in November 1998. Click on image for a larger view. Photograph:
Wes Walker
A shot of walkers
Tussauds founder Brian Walker as an infant, sat on the steps of his
grandparent's living wagon, circa 1955. His son, Wes Walker,
comments: "Not that you'd guess from the workaday sight of the old
lad, but his grandfather Thos Thornton was a very gifted artist in
his own right, doing all of his own fairground artistry and
gold-leaf work on his rigs. I'd say that this was the sole influence
on my father to do all his own creative and construction work."
Click on image for a larger view.
Photograph: Wes Walker
A general shot of the
Thornton's living wagon, in which Brian Walker travelled for much of
his formative years. Click on image for a larger view.
Photograph: Wes Walker
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