Blackpool

benson

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

erik

benson God, that sounds awful

Unbroken1

Along_the_Wire
Millsy …give over lads, worlds apart!

Along_the_Wire

Unbroken1

But you can roll it in glitter…

Unbroken1

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

…the view from my room at the Kensington, Blackpool

TitianWarrior

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.

Cankles-McJeggings

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.

Christian

Same with morecombe. a seedy version of Blackpool if that is possible

Cankles-McJeggings

Christian

Happy to report I’ve never been.

Hursty

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

Dan

Hursty I covered a job in Weston Super Mare years ago. I stayed in the hotel (Royal Pier Hotel) were the Beatles stayed (bit of a fan). It’s a proper Khazi.

https://beatlesdaily.com/2023/03/23/weston-super-mare-1963-the-beatles/

Cankles-McJeggings

Blackpool was honestly quite pleasant in the 70s. The grandparents used to take us there. Donkey rides up the beach which was clean, tram rides, the lights, fish and chips, the pier, the tower, the fun fair, the arcades, the zoo, the Dr who museum, jumpers for goal posts etc etc
I went early 90s to pick a car up and it was a filthy smelly shithole in a state of disrepair.

Millsy

Never been. Always thought it looked dogshit.

Cankles-McJeggings

Millsy

You were right.

Cankles-McJeggings

I don’t know if it still true but back in the 90s I worked with a guy who grew up there and everyone does their damnedest to get out. So much so at the time it had the largest application for the armed forces out of any town in England.

hugopal

I think I may have posted this before, but Blackpool Tower is the most complained about tourist attraction in the UK and 2nd most complained about in the whole world on Tripadvisor.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/britains-10-overrated-tourist-attractions-lake-windemere-shard/

Cankles-McJeggings

I went to the top when I was little and it was fucking terrifying. Thing was swaying in the wind and proper lack of safety back then. I just remember looking over the edge and my brother doing one of those pushing and then grabbing you malarkey and nearly shat myself. Never really liked heights since.

Along_the_Wire

Cankles-McJeggings LOL

mono-stereo

My gran used to take us to Blackpool when I where a lad. The arcades where ace, as was Jungle Jims.

Seems like that photographer fetishizes poverty. His other “collections” include pictuers of people travelling on busses and East London smackheads.

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