I'm feeling all sad for Blackpool. No one, including me, has much nice to say about the place. Has anyone got any nice Blackpool stories to redress the karmic effect we've possibly created?
The Northbound / Southbound M6 sliproads.
Nope.
Went on a stag do there that had all the right ingredients. Fire hazard B&B, unconscious drunken lady weeing on a mates bed, one lad in hospital as a result of a glassing, pick pockets, packs of violent drunken arseholes and it was raining.
The next time I see Blackpool it will hopefully be through a bomb aimers sight.
I know an armed response policeman who is called there occasionally. He finds it incredible that drunken idiots will go out of their way to take on a copper armed with a taser and a baton.
There are regular departures from Blackpool Airport.
Its just far enough away to not be local. The sh1thole.
[url= http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/02/23/reference-wait-92534-22985519/ ]It could have been so much worse than it is![/url]
Apparently there's some good* dogging to be had at South Shore dunes.
*If you like the thought of some chlamydia-infested 50-year-old gap-toothed boarding house owner with a fanny like a bill-poster's bucket.
Saw Roy 'chubby' Brown there years ago - that was a good laugh, but the place is a tacky pit.
Saw Roy 'chubby' Brown there years ago - that was a good laugh, but the place is a tacky pit.
Look some one here views Roy chubby Brown as classy [WTF and FFS] and even they think Blackpool is a tacky pit. That will not be trumped as an answer.
This is supposed to a nice thread.
Nothing further to add. 😐
{Shudder}
The thought of a stag weekend there a few years back almost brings me out in a cold sweat. Horrible place.
We were originally going to go to Hamburg but the father of the groom didn't have a passport as apparently [i]there is nothing worth seeing outside the UK[/i].
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To add a nice point though. I had some cracking chips from one of the chippies.
Where? Never heard of it.
[i]Nice things about Blackpool[/i]
It's in the North?
The beach looks nice, when you've got your back to the seafront and there's nobody on it.
"there is nothing worth seeing outside the UK"
Should fit in well up north then 😐
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Where did I say classy?
Went down to the "Pleasure" beach about 9 years ago. Absolute shithole though that big roller coaster was quite fun.
However I've never seen so many skinhead, Hackett polo shirt wearing fannies in my entire life. Even during the day you felt on edge as though a scrap was about to kick off at any time. The only place I've been that's worse is Whitely Bay 😆
It has a super-quick half marathon course which got me a big PB yesterday!
hmm...
Rollercoaster, Big Dipper, Grand National, Wild Mouse, Zipper Dipper, Steeplechase, Flying Machines, Revolution.
cant think of any other nice things - TVR went not so long ago, that was the only other good thing there.
The Russians had detailed plans to invade England via Blackpool. Seriously. I think that's a good news story for Blackpool. Stalin could easily have improved the place.
As per Uplinks answer, but Eastbound!
Its the only place that under 6's can have fond memories of?
[i]The reason Hitler didn't do the decent thing and order his Luftwaffe to reduce Blackpool to smouldering rubble has now been revealed: The Fuhrer wanted the resort as his "personal playground", as the Daily Mail puts it.[/i]
[url= http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/23/blackpool_plan/ ]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/23/blackpool_plan/[/url]
Stalin could easily have improved the place.
Are you saying a naval bombardment followed up by an opposed landing complete with close air support would have improved Blackpool?
I think you may be onto something there, the IRA bomb in Manchester led to huge improvements to the city.
Pretty much yes sootyandjim. Actually, they'd never have taken Blackpool. The drunks and bouncers would never have let them off the beach head.
That would be an ace film now I think about it.
Right lads, let's get some beers in.
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They had "Showzam" over the last week which was supposed to be rather good. Did anyone go & see it ? I believe it was mostly based around the Winter Gardens which is a fabulous place if you can see beyond the tat & fruit machines.
I feel a seaside renaissance happening.
It's half way round a double century from my house along the transpennine trail. Not that the transpennine trail goes anywhere near Blackpool but like many good things, it peters out about 30 miles away from Blackpool.
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"Stick together fellas, that bloke in the Tartan skirt is looking at us in a funny way."
"If we split up into twos and threes we might get in."
"If you want to go skinny dipping i'll stay here and guard the boots and coats."
As I mentioned in the other post some of the finest wooden roller coasters left anywhere in the world. And if you take a pilgrimage to St. Leonards road in Marton you can see where I was born. And then it's just a short walk to Stanley Park which has a fabulous Art Deco café and you can go for a ride on the boating lake on the same motor boats which seemed clapped out when I first went on them 40 years ago and haven't improved with age.
"Why are we in Paris?"
Because when the High Command went to the Tower Circus Himmler left the camera in the half track.
I used to ride the Manchester to Blackpool run, for charadee.
i used to live 60 miles away, now i live 280 miles away, thats nice!
The nail clippers I found in a guesthouse there 18 years ago are still sharp.
There is a tattooists called 'Painless Keiths' 😆
Blackpool well known for fine dining .... Seniors fish and chips, 5th best chip shop in UK according to the Times
Fast Ted's Italian barbers in South Shore. Did exactly what it said on the tin. Boy was Fast Ted fast. Specialised in rockabilly flat tops. You sat down, told him what you wanted, you could point to George Micheal in Careless Whispers phase barnets in magazines even if you wanted. Don't waste your breath fool. Fast Ted did a rockabilly flat top regardless, which was probably a good thing.
The process. Fast Ted revs up the buzzers, does the back and sides in about 25 seconds. Small afro comb whipped out and used to make sure the sides at the top are straight. Finally the jumanji of the experience. Fast Ted makes sure your head is dead straight. He then gets out a big afro comb with a SPIRITLEVEL incorporated. lines it up on the top of the bonce, zap. Perfect flat top in under 2 mins max. Next.
It's not Morecambe? (Although I haven't been to Blackpool and intend to keep it that way).
One good thing about Blackpool, and I mean only one!! 8)
The Grand theatre...'tis truely lovely!!
didn't that paedo off coronation street get killed there? That's one good thing about blackpool.
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it hardly stood a chance did it, why didn't they just call it Tar Pit or Dirty Hole?
Had the best Rave clubs in the late 80s early 90's.
Shaboo, Oz, Sequins ahh happy times.
Met my wife there, a Blackpool girl.
Stanley Park, one of the finest municipal parks in the country. The council are currently in the process of creating an adrenaline sports park for the kids (and adults who don't know better) including skateboarding, inline skating and BMX.
Ah yes also met my wife there, also a Blackpool girl.
Went on a staggy there maybe 15yrs ago
None of us got in a fight 😯
The giant-glove boxing was ace, hungover on the Sunday morning
My uncle provides most of Blackpool's chip shops with potatoes, so out of a sense of family loyalty I hope loads of people still go.
A trip to see the illuminations is OK - some are pretty amazing, especially those on the tram cars.
Also AdamG / snigletrack formerly of these parts is a resident - enough said 😉
I had my first pizza hut twisted crust pizza there, It was awesome, god I wish they would bring that back!
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Also AdamG / snigletrack formerly of these parts is a resident - enough said
I know Adam quite well, having ridden with him many times. He used to own office and warehouse premises to the south of Blackpool next to the motorway (Marton I think), but he lives somewhere north of Preston in the Ribble Valley.
I believe he's relocated his business to bigger premises closer to his home and closer to the hills for those cheeky afternoon rides. Lucky bugger...
In a world of cookie-cutter high streets and homogenised town centres, Blackpool stands out by so different to anywhere else in world.
For me that difference is worth celebrating!
A busy afternoon at the Pleasure Beach has an atmosphere that (IMHO) is fabulous.
It has one of the world's finest collections of wooden roller coasters, many of which are hugely underestimated.
I've had some utterly wonderful days (and evenings) enjoying the buzz of the place.
Illuminations, the Tower, the lively nightlife.
Isn't it all about perspective?
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Only one good thing about Blackpool and that is the Northern soul weekend at the Tower Ballroom every Year. 😀
Everything else is ****in crap although some of the sights you see on the way back to your hotel at nights can be fun to see. I didn't have my camera last time but below are the types of things that you might come across!
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