What's wrong with Blackpool

[Roberto]

I have never been to Blackpool, being a place often mentioned in threads to show that even the ugliest place on earth can be a bit of paradise compared to it, I went through a quick google search


I understand it is a seaside town

it has double deckers and stormy seas, so it must be in Britain

it makes true half Britain's hidden dream of seeing Paris after a tsunami

a place where children can have fun...

...as can adults

it is animal friendly

with a touch of psychedelia

though I admit the transportation system could be improved

surely five pages of google images must represent the truth, so poor Blackpool what has it done to deserve such a bad reputation ?

 

[Tomahawk]

It exists?

 

[maxi77]

From my experience it lacks curry houses, it has far too many stag/hen parties staggering around making a nuisance of themselves, all in all it is not my cup of tea, but then neither is Las Vegas, but both are popular destinations just not for me though I seem to have to go there every few years for family occasions

 

[Stork_III]

Blackpool is fine, its the people who go there you need to avoid.

Smaller picture would improve the thread readability.

 

[Roberto]

Smaller picture would improve the thread readability.

I resized the biggest one, should be ok now ?

 

[King Penguin]

Ha, ha, excellent thread, my friend.....

 

[Stork_III]

I resized the biggest one, should be ok now ?

Yes improves the thread, but not Blackpool.

 

[macd]

Roberto:
it used to be where working-class Brits went to sit on a beach and complain about the weather. Now they go somewhere hot and complain about the food/water/language/service/each other.

Blackpool at least used to have Stanley Matthews. And TVR. It still has crown green bowling.

If you want class, google 'Morecambe'. According to some sources the first British nuclear bomb was tested there and caused almost £3-worth of damage.

 

[Roberto]

If you want class, google 'Morecambe'. According to some sources the first British nuclear bomb was tested there and caused almost £3-worth of damage.

hi Mac


horror story, dancing people have been instantly petrified by the bomb

 

[sailorman]

Blackpool is fine, its the people who go there you need to avoid.

Smaller picture would improve the thread readability.

we have a couple who sail the East Coast, based in SYH, who live in Blackpool
thats how good it is

 

[25931]

Blackpool

Yes it is a seaside town but not suitable for yachts. However it is situated between the marinas at Preston and Fleetwood.(lets keep the thread a bit boaty)
It used to be one of the most progressive towns in Britain - I remember the construction of a muti-storey carpark with groundfloor bus station across the road from a railway station, an underground carpark, an Olympic sized swimming pool- all this in the 1930s. Not to mention a dedicated tramway which goes all the way to Fleetwood marina .

 

[macd]

horror story, dancing people have been instantly petrified by the bomb

Actually I think it was the eponymous Eric who put the bomb story about, bless him.

 

[Poignard]

Blackpool?

It's a grand place, noted for fresh air and fun.

 

[reginaldon]

I first knew Blackpool in the heyday of the Wakes weeks, our town's was the second week in August, when almost everything closed down, led by the cotton mills of course, I had the odd day there in the late thirties, forties & early fifties, no doubt when it was at it's best. In the war trainee Spitfire pilots were screaming across the sands and lifting to clear the piers.
Always had a sneaking regard for Fleetwood, but then I was always interested in boats.

 

[Sgeir]

it is animal friendly

Do you know what they have for lunch?

 

[duncan99210]

As they used to say when I were a lad, Blackpool is a great place for strong ale and week ends.....

 

[colind3782]

I went there once. Nuff said...

 

[Davy_S]

Blackpool has long passed its heyday, it can still be a good place to go for a jolly boys outing, for the day, or stag and hen projectile vomiting competitions.
The streets behind the prom are mostly the dss stomping grounds, most of the small B&Bs took in the dss to make ends meet.
Blackpool can be extremely violent unless you are mob handed, taxi ranks have fights every night. not the place for a couple or families. All the locals are on meow meow, says it all really.

 

[john_morris_uk]

I had to stay in Blackpool for a few days this summer.

I would like to say that it had a certain charm - but I can't. Our son said it had more £1 shops per square metre than anywhere elese he had seen. (Perhaps he has had a sheltered life?)

My best memories of Blackpool revolve around attending National Union of Student Conferences there and meeting female students from other colleges who were also at the conference and that is all I am going to say on that subject...

PS The only time I spoke at an NUS conference I got booed for being far too right wing for most of the delegates who attended in those days.

 

[photodog]

I bet Jimmy Saville loved the place.