Blackpool

[Caribeing]

I watched Secret Millionaire on Sunday (Channel 4] Gary Eastwood went to Blackpool and the place seemed really desolate and run down! I know it was at the end of the season but the picture portrayed was very uninviting! I remember visiting Blackpool in the seventies and it was "buzzing" What is Blackpool really like now!

[ojread2]

The last time I went to Blackpool was some 10 years ago and it was quite dire when you stood back and looked at the place. However, I love tacky seaside resorts that are typically British so I had a whale of time there

It is apparently about to get a very large sum of money to refurbish itself - good! And bookings for holidays are up on last year according to many landlords of B&B's in the area - many are fully booked for the Easter break and for some weeks after

[DrFilth]

a lot of the jobs are seasonal so visit blackpool in winter and you see a different place. i was in a shop in a side street off the front and the local dj from a pub on the front was trying (begging) the shop owner for some cigs and beer, he offered his cd player as security till his dole money was paid in his bank account.
the shop owner said people only see a happy place in summer but if they lived here it would open their eyes.
junkies begging for money, you name it they have it

[VHG]

Many English seaside resorts are all "gliiter" up front but can be very poor areas with little work, many people from outside coming in looking for work, and it can also attract drug addicts, drunks etc who want to to live there.

Many seaside towns also have an ageing population and the local council can be spending a fortune looking after these older people.

The other problem is that many people now go abroad for their holidays, and the holiday "season" in England can only last a few months (Easter till end of August). The rest of the year their income is very very low.

One other problem is that many of these seaside towns grew up in the Victorian era, and so the whole infrastructure of them (housing, shops, theatres etc) is crumbling

That is why Blackpool was deperate to get that huge Casino a few years ago, to halt its decline and to give it more "all year round" visitor numbers.

[Jenga]

It depends on when you go. If you go during the illuminations between Sept-Beginning November it is packed especially weekends. It is rather rundown and tacky but it has got something about it that makes me go and visit every few years.

[legendis.god]

avoid the bus staion and if you must go there never use the toilets

littered with syringes and swabs its the local shooting gallery for the junkies.

a very dodgy bit.


i like blackpool myself but see that if you stayed there itd be a fine line between love and hate

[pastafreak]

So why oh why are we going there,leg...? ;-((

[monkeyeyes]

As a resident, I'd love to be able to contradict the rather poor reputation that Blackpool currently has, and the comments made.............unfortunately I am unable to do so.

Blackpool keeps being promised funds from various sources for regeneration and reinvention...........this will take time........and time is something which we may not have. The transitional phase will cause more upheaval and inconvenience for visitors and tourists (see current works to the sea-wall and main sewer) and see them deciding to go elsewhere; Blackpool will then have to work twice as hard to get them back.

The old Mecca has just been demolished in order to make way for a new campus of the Fylde College..........and guess what? The money promised for the new build seems to have disappeared.........so another prominent, ugly building site for the Borough Council to explain away.

Works are due to start on the Talbot Road gateway.........this will provide new Civic Buildings for Blackpool. So, no real construction, then......just modern offices for the snoopers and bean-counters.

The Council put all of its energies (and vast amounts of our Council Tax) into securing the 'Super-Casino' and failed.............there was NO Plan B !

[sparkler]

Well I live in Blackpool (although not born here),
It looked like Gary was staying on the outskirts of Grange Park in Layton, which isn't a nice place! But like all area's you have your bad parts, I can sit here and say I don't think most of it is a bad in places but there are a lot of desolate and run down area's! There are however some lovely area's aswell. A TV Show like that is bound to show the worst area's anyway!

[legendis.god]

we will avoid the junkies crackheads and whoars





dunno about monkey eyes or jackiethehatter



we may meet

dunno tho psty i dont really wanna hangout in that part of town



lol : 0)

[Sachs]

Stick to the day time, visit some bars. Buy a bag of chips. Find a good hotel with some good night life. Enjoy Blackpool for what it is, a good laugh!

[legendis.god]

dress up

of course

sachs you gonna come to the meet up??



lol


shes chicken pasty


lol

[Sachs]

Another time may be. I'm so chicken ;0)

[legendis.god]

its may 2010


ffs

get on the exercise bike



go under the knife and you could look as good as collogen noooleen by then

[Sachs]

Laughed out loud!!!!!

[legendis.god]

hey you got a year to look better skip







or




















we could reschedule for 2012????





















lol

[Sachs]

Can a lady say ********?

[sparkler]

pmsl legend! First time I've laughed out loud today

[pastafreak]

Leg!!...we don't CARE what anybody looks llike...we just wanna have some fun. We can do what Sachs said....find a good hotel with some nightlife..lol

and Sparkler-the whole point of the program was that the millionaire was living on Jobseeker's allowance.......so of course he would not be in the more salubrious parts of town.I am sure most viewers would understand that.

[Sachs]

Oh good! I've been censored!!! :0)

[christine847]

Leg............you said May 2010...Im sure Knobby was saying last week june or july?