The next door is the home of the RNLI lifeboat, one of several rescue facilities around Hawken Bay.
Uniquely Fleetwood is still the only town in the UK to have three lighthouses to help ships navigate up the river wire.
Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood hired the architect, Decimus Burton, and it was he who not only created
the Ferris Lighthouse and the Lower Lighthouse, but also in 1844, the most elegant street in the town, Queen's Terrace.
Opposite Queen's Terrace used to be an extremely busy railway station, bringing thousands of people from all over the UK to holiday in the island ban.
Sadly, it's now long gone, but the railway certainly made a major contribution to the town's prosperity,
bringing people from far and wide to catch boats to go to Scotland.
And the promenade is the northeastern hotel, where travellers from London would spend the night before boarding a steamer to travel to our drossin on the river Clyde in Scotland.
Travelling in the opposite direction in 1847 was a very pregnant Queen Victoria, and after a rough sea journey down from Scotland,
she boarded the train with the now immortal words, we are not amused.
Nearby is the delightful Fleetwood Museum in the old customs house.
The helpful volunteers showed me around this small but perfectly formed microcosm of the heritage of Fleetwood.
From its old catch rigged wooden deep sea trawler housed in a special building to the rear.
Through its computerised exhibits, rooftop camera, views of Morgan Bay, drawings, reconstructions and displays, right to its clinically clean coffee bar and shop,
it's a place anyone interested in the heritage of Fleetwood must visit.
The main street is Lord Street, yet another Hesketh Fleetwood decimus Burton creation, and each first Sunday in July, Tram Sunday takes place.
This is the largest free transport festival in the Northwest, and run by volunteers who give up their spare time to ensure its success.
However, at times it has struggled to survive, but after several decades, it is still attracting thousands of people, and I hope the future now looks secure.
Up to the late sixties Fleetwood was once very popular as a tourist attraction, with its seafront, beach and pier.
Sadly, there was one fire too many on the pier, and it's now gone to that scrap heap in the sky.
Close by the historic North Houston Hotel are two rather evocative memorials.
One, Welcome Home, by Nita Lalad, is really beautiful, and is a tribute to the families of Fleetwood fishermen.
It's on the spot where the wives and families wave goodbye to their menfolk, or used to wait to catch the first glimpse of the returning trawlers.
And this one, the real price of fish is the lives of men.
He's dedicated to those fishermen who had been lost at sea, and missed 42 trawlers, which were lost between 1913 and 1939.
