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The end of days. Oh well, as long as it all stays up there I’m good with it.

…took my lad there for his annual football tournament 3 or 4 times.

UTTER shithole, and the worst hotels I’ve ever had the misfortune of staying in.

There was a ritual of everybody pooling cash, half of it would go on buying all the boys ‘pleasure’ beach passes, the rest of it went into the beer fund for the dads, whose idea of good parenting was simultaneously going on the lash.

The bars were a shocker, like the worst rural nightclubs at peak-time, staggering pissed stag parties and packs of cackling grannies- but in the middle of the fucking day.

    Only ever been once which was when I was a kid. My family hired a minibus & drove up from the south coast and just as we parked up we witnessed a load football fans kicking off. One guy got bottled right in front of us. That’s all I remember from that trip.

    I’ve always find it fascinating that the UK is full of utter shithole towns located at stunning locations.

    Drove through it once on the way back from the Lake District while heading to North Wales as I thought I can’t go past and not see what it’s about, regret that.

    Fucking terrible place.

      Unbroken1
      Think the only thing you missed was that smoking is apparently still obligatory

        erik Much like I once did cycling through Magaluf on my way from Port D’Andratx. Grim. Utterly grim. Smelled of Wayne Lineker.

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            I went to Blackpool a couple of times as a kid, the amusement arcades were a really big deal back then. All the deluxe sit down versions, and just loads of games.
            Last time I went was for the stone roses gig in 1989, had a fantastic time.
            I see no reason to tarnish those memories by visiting the horror show it clearly is.

            Along_the_Wire …the view from my room at the Hilton, Gateshead

            …the view from my room at the Kensington, Blackpool

              Fuck me you want to be glad you didn’t drive another 30 mins down the coast to Rhyll. Drug-fucked scouser overflow that needs leveling at night while they all sleep. Seriously makes Blackpool look livable.
              Blackpool in the 70s was spotlessly clean and a great place to go for days out as kids. Then the impending invasion of drunken Scottish football shirt wearing wankers took over having their 2 week get pissed family holidays there and it slowly just crumbled into a dire shithole.

              Weston Super Mare is of a similar vein but full of brummies

              What I can’t understand is they were never nice seaside areas especially Weston due to the Bristol channel which due to the tide means the water is constantly brown, not particularly pleasing on the eye or for bathing

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