Blackpool.

[TWR]

Have you been there? do you think the changes are good for the place? ( I was there yesterday, (they have made the front realy good) whats your views?

[Kramer21]

Horrible disgusting place filled with freaks and weirdos. I like to call it the "Armpit" of britain and believe me i will never set foot there again

[mrs.chappie]

Happy days Stewey. :o)

Puss, that Christmas hat.....is it late from last year, or early for this year? :o)

I last went to Blackpool when I was about 16 (40+ years ago). Got lost, couldn't find the coach to take me home and had to stay the night in a B & B. No mobile phones in those days, my mum was going frantic with worry.

I remember lots of flashing lights and it being quite noisy. I would have probably enjoyed it, had it not been for the trauma of being lost in a strange place.

[DJHawkes]

this is my mum's first visit to blackpool, well her mum was 5 months pregnant actually lol we've been going there for 5 generations and despite it all my kids and grandkids love it.
http://i42.tinypic.com/14js31u.jpg

[DJHawkes]

that's 1928 BTW

[boxtops]

I haven't been there for about 20 years - the B&B where we stayed had peas in the mattresses :-(

[Kramer21]

"this is my mum's first visit to blackpool, well her mum was 5 months pregnant actually lol we've been going there for 5 generations and despite it all my kids and grandkids love it.
http://i42.tinypic.com/14js31u.jpg"

A lovely blast from the blast djhawkes though the horsecart operators face says it all

[DJHawkes]

he probably couldn't understand their accent, they were from Hebden Bridge

[mrs.chappie]

You can see his face? All I can see is a flat cap and coat. I really must get the resolution settings on my monitor sorted.

[boxtops]

I can see A face, but he appears to be from another continent, I'm sure it must be shadow :-)

[DJHawkes]

I've zoomed in on the original and it is shadow and a healthy working outdoors suntan i reckon, my great aunt eva, b1914 seated on the left, celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary in blackpool in a huge red brick posh hotel right on the prom in 1961 , have a colour picture of me and my sister riding donkeys on the beach during the day, my mum lost her engagement ring at that party as she took it off in the ladies to wash her hands.

[stewey]

I zoomed and brightened my original also, and it's some older person sitting on a deck chair in front of the pram. I guess the Kodak Brownie didn't have much depth of field:) Imagine taking a pram through all that sand?

[Dee Sa]

I have been twice and both times the place stunk of chips.

[tiggerblue10]

I went there once when I was 12. All I remember was a big gorilla hanging on to the tower.