[2] The building was created by Blackpool Borough architect J. C. Robinson, who based his design on his own interpretation of the Mausoleum of Mausolus.

[citation needed] At the north door is a chapel containing Books of Remembrance, which note the names of all those cremated or interred there.

[3] A number of notable people have been buried or cremated at the site.

These include: There are 88 Commonwealth service personnel of the Second World War buried at the cemetery.

[5] The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has erected a white stone memorial near the crematorium listing 51 Commonwealth service personnel cremated here during the Second World War.