It was owned by a family i would like to know more about.
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It was Buxton Mill, but I’ve seen it referred to as “The Riverie at Buxton Mill.” I think the hotel was Buxton Mill and “The Riverie” was a nightclub in the hotel. I think I’ve got the right hotel, but I can’t remember what “The Riverie” was.
The “Buxton Mill / Riverie” that David M refers to was (is) in Norwich, not Blackpool. It is an 18th Century building. The 1991 fire nearly destroyed it, but it has since been restored.
There was a major fire in one of Blackpool’s hundreds of hotels in 1988 (nothing that I can find re. hotel fires in 1991). The January 3rd 1988 fire is mentioned as follows in the NY Times archives: –
“Fire swept through the cabaret of the seafront Balmoral Hotel in Blackpool this morning, forcing 102 people from the Balmoral and a neighboring hotel, the Craigy Don, to flee. The police in this resort town on England’s northwest coast said two people ill from smoke inhalation were treated at the scene. The Balmoral’s cabaret was destroyed and 90 percent of the building sustained smoke damage, the spokesman said.”
The only major fire that I’ve found in Blackpool in 1991 was at the Pleasure Beach (amusement park), where the Fun House was destroyed by fire in November 1991.