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Blackpool, Big Wheel 1896
Blackpool, Big Wheel 1896 Ref: 38865
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 Blackpool, Winter Gardens 1894 (ref: 33954) |
Chubby at the Winter Gardens
We drove to Blackpool on our way back from Gretna after getting married. Went to see Chubby Brown at the Winter Gardens. Beautiful building, a great night and a lot of laughs. x Posted: 06/11/2008 08:50 by Tracey Barden |
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Year: 1960
My memories of Blackpool
I remember my parents taking us children to see the Blackpool illuminations as a birthday treat, where we would see all kinds of animations along the prominade and all the trams where also lit up, that was some 48yrs ago. I don't know if this still happens, enjoy. Last edited: 29/08/2008 09:34 by Alan Bond |
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 Blackpool, Promenade and Sands c1958 (ref: B116031) |
Days out in Blackpool in the Forties and Fifties
Between the years 1944 and 1956 my family and I lived in Preston, Lancashire and from there it was only a short ride on the train or bus to Blackpool, where we spent many happy days. This photo shows the sands and the wooden steps up to the promenade as I remember them. My mother preferred to go to Lytham, where it was quieter and more select, but there was far more to do at Blackpool, where we spent hours on the sands, paddling in the sea or building sandcastles. When the tide was up we played in the paddling pool or went on one of the three piers. Also there were donkey rides - I remember falling off my donkey! We never went up the tower - I can't think why - that was a treat I saved until I was able to bring my partner from Germany to Blackpool in 1991. However the sands could be treacherous - I remember there was one point where the water came in quickly, arching round through a channel hard by the sea wall and anyone on the sand between the channel and the open sea found themselves cut off by the incoming tide - that happened to me once and I had to run like the wind and splash through the channel to reach the steps up to the promenade. I've been to Blackpool from Preston since living in Frankfurt and I've found that nothing has been done to remedy this situation - the channel is still there, a trap for the unwary. Most people remember the illuminations - I think I saw them only once before we left Preston, because my parents preferred to leave the place before they were switched on, but nowadays when I stay in Preston during October and spend the day in Blackpool, it's the illuminations I come to see. Posted: 04/08/2008 22:29 by Diana Dioszeghy |
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Year: 1950
Visiting Blackpool Illuminations as a child.
Around the year 1950 a coach would take all the children in our road on a trip to see Blackpool Lights. Those days they called the coach a charabanc. Does anybody remember that name? How happy all the children would be going on that trip to Blackpool. I remember very well leaving in the early evening on the coach with our parents so excited. And arriving at Blackpool and riding up the promenade so mesmerized at all the pretty lights and all the differant themes of nursery rhymes. We would have hot baked potatoes on our trip home and always returned with a stick of Blackpool Rock. Happy memories of yesteryear! Last edited: 15/04/2008 08:53 by Brenda Vanderwert |
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 Staining, Thornefield Holiday Camp c1960 (ref: S694001) |
Year: 1960
Little Nellie A memory of Staining, Lancashire Hi anyone remember "Little Nellie" (husband Joe) and their daughter Annie and grand daughter Margaret, from Sultan Street in Accrington. We used to travel down on the same bus with them every Friday night. In those days, we got the bus from the bottom of Water Street/Melbourne Street (now Eastgate). They had a caravan on Thornfield for years and years. When you passed the shop and turned onto the site, their caravan was way down the bottom, tucked in a corner. Little Nellie was extremely small and always seemed to wear mens wide legged trousers, with turn ups! June Last edited: 26/06/2008 21:38 by June Huntingdon |
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