Blackpool illuminations

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Extended till Jan this season anyone taking a trip up?

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Blackpool Illuminations is the No. 1 free light show in the world; come along and enjoy this cherished family tradition and activities! Find out Switch-On times, history, tram tours and more.
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I am hoping to - outside excursions just for the hell of it have been missed and I think taking these opportunities is the route to maintaining peoples mental health
 
I go every year and grab a chippy tea in Bispham (I'm at an age now where the chippy tea is more fun than the illuminations)......but then I only live a couple of miles away so I could go every night ;-)
 
bluethrunthru said:
I am hoping to - outside excursions just for the hell of it have been missed and I think taking these opportunities is the route to maintaining peoples mental health
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Until you end up sat in a 4 hour traffic jam on the Prom and your mental health is back in the bin, and you wish you were self isolating with Covid ;-)
 
Nick_1985 said:
Until you end up sat in a 4 hour traffic jam on the Prom and your mental health is back in the bin, and you wish you were self isolating with Covid ;-)
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we always parked up and walked the " Golden Mile" - well we did until we stumbled upon the hen party giving blow jobs to the stag party up a side street - kinda hard to explain that to an 8 and 10 year old..... they are too young to really know what is going on but don't believe the " they are re-inflating the guys legs " explanation lol
 
Ahh brings back memories of riding through them on the back of my Dads Panther Redwing 650 which was new at the time, built in Cleckheaton Yorkshire
 
Love blackpool some great memories going to pontins in the 70’s,I can’t believe they’ve spent all that money on doing the prom up and they leave them shithole shops along the front get it sorted.
 
My ex father-in law was a right miserable bastard, he once said to my ex Mrs as a kid - "What do you want to go to Blackpool to see the lights for? They just flash on and off!" He was turning the kitchen light on and off when he said that. He was quite witty though, dry as fuck: )
 
mosssideblue said:
It is now, really gone to ruin, but back in the 70s, was a great place to be.
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Definitely,as a kid i loved our trips there,such a fucking shame.Its not unique though,most seaside towns have gone down the pan and are inhabited mainly by a regressive element of society.

I regularly go to Southport as part of my work and that is awful now,even 10 years ago it was so much better.I will grab a coffee from Costa,but do as little venturing as possible in the depressing shit hole.
 
Used to have great memories there as a kid

depresses me when I go now though

Donuts and a Chippy only redeeming parts of the trip
 
There’s people in Morecambe trying to get the illuminations up and running again. The work they’ve done rebuilding the prom has brought in a lot of people in the summer months but cross the road and it’s the same problem as Blackpool; run down or empty shops and pubs full of chavs. They ripped up the Frontierland many years ago and the the whole space is still sitting empty despite promises of retail parks etc. It’s a real shame because once the summer is over the town just dies again. And don’t even think about venturing into the West End!
 
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