James Baines (draper)

James Baines (6 August 1648 – 9 January 1717) was an English businessman.

Baines was born at Berkenhead Farm in Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire, in 1648.

His shop was located at the corner of today's Blackpool Old Road and Queen's Square, overlooking the town's Market Place.

[3] He bought land in Lancashire on which to have built three schools.

[1] On 9 January 2017, the tricentenary of Baines's death, children from the Marton school buried a time capsule on the approximate location of the first Baines school.

Baines's drapery was located where the white building stands at today's 33 Market Place in Poulton-le-Fylde