To think Blackpool is a bit shit

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Just came back from Blackpool and it was utter shit. Why haven't the council there made improvements and made it a decent place to visit?

There is hardly anywhere halfway reasonable to eat, it looks completely broken and unloved. There is just so much potential for development and it could be the "Orlando" of England. Instead, it's just shite.

I've come away thinking I don't need to take my children to Africa to appreciate what they've got: just take them to Blackpool.

On a good note, the beach is very nice. Shame about the drunks weeing all over the stairs to the beach and leaving beer cans everywhere. I saw broken Britain in Blackpool and I shall never go back again.

I loved Blackpool as I get nostalgic, many trips there as a kid for last weekend of the lights.

Re-lived this a few years back with my own kids, siblings and their kids. Pulled up outside hotel around 6pm to a woman stood in the street, one hand holding phone to ear, other pulling knickers down - she then proceeded to piss full throttle whilst stood, and talking on the phone like it was a Normal thing you do. I think I kerbed the car

The hotel was awful, couldn't even take a shower. Baby wipes all the way. Nowhere decent to eat.

We still go once a year, but keep it to a day trip. Agree pleasure beach is good and sandcastle is brilliant.

Nothing I don't already know Honda

Did anyone ever go to the Galleon?

Fake fish tanks.

Amazing

I went there once but I was very pissed.

Yes, Zowies! Used to be Paddington's???

Me and me lovely sister used to go to the Palace every Saturday in our sunglasses, not drink an ounce of booze and just work the floor. Dancing to Jackie Graham and Jason Donovan...even met the Grange Hill Just Say No group there!

I am also Miss Wet Tshirt 1988 at the Hitman and Her. That takes pride of place on my social worker CV.

Loved the Galleon, coolest place ever. Spent many a Saturday night in there. Such a shame it was flattened. There are some photos on FB of it just before it was demolished, they are really eerie, fishtanks all broken etc. End of an era when that went... sob.

That's some accolade Honda. I'm impressed!

Honda Jizz . I am glad some one mentioned pete and michela from the palace in 1988.

Bloody hell at Uncle Brian's - the visitor book is priceless.

Galleon was indie music and live bands, but we used to go because it had a late licence and no entrance fee. So shallow....

My most disturbing memory was Addison's and they had a male stripper on...he put whipped cream all over his genitals and encouraged a girl to lick it off. She did. We were so scared he would come over to us and do something similar. That was too much, even as Balckpool girls.

One thing I do feel though is how safe it all was, back in the day. We used to walk home alone at 2am without an ounce of fear, snogging boys in alleys as we went. There was no trouble. No major drunkeness.

I go on the fb page, in fact I won Sea life tickets last week, bloody chuffed I was!

Well my DC love the place and if they had it their way we would go there for our main holiday every year. I have wonderful memories of visiting Blackpool as a child but unfortunately like other parts of the country the town has deteriorated rapidly. I much prefer St Annes, (especially the St Ives Hotel) which gives us the option of popping into Blackpool and leaving minus £150 spent on the Pleasure Beach and Waxworks.

Must admit having watch 999 Emergency I'm horrified by what goes on in the resort at night.

I grew up in Blackpool, I remember the Lobster Pot disco, Man Fridays, Golden Wheels roller disco, the Oyster Catcher (became the West Coast Rock Cafe) the Blue Room, Scrooges, and many more. I left when I was 21 (am 40 now). I still keep in touch with family, and am amazed at how many of my old school friends still live there. When I was originally thinking of moving away, my friends all tried to put me off, saying "why do you want to leave? What can anywhere else offer that Blackpool can't?" They are still waiting for me to come back with my tail inbetween my legs, nearly 20 years later.

Thanks Aquamildred! I haven't visited that page, but will look out for it (although not on FB).

My lovely best friend who is in Marton has just had her first child so I will be over there loads during the summer. It would be brilliant to meet new people.

We love Blackpool very sheltered life

We go in September every year

Straight from school on Friday, sandcastle for a few hours then watch the fireworks
Stay at the premier inn near the football ground then spend Saturday in the pleasure beach

First year dd2 was tall enough I took her on the grand national. We sat right in the front and she had her arms in the air the whole time. The group of teenage boys sat behind us gave her 'massive respect' and were high fiving her as they got off -she was only 7 and it made her day

I'd be up for a meet up.

Yabu tocompare to Africa

If i race up the m6 i can get to Blackpool in a hour to watch the sunset over the sea which can be great but i never get out of the car these days because it is so rough ." SUCH A SHAME " because as a kid it was so exciting to watch the illumnations and go on the pleasure beach even the IMPERIAL/HILTON HOTEL ARE POOR HOTELS NOW.

Oh reallynothappy, maybe we skated past each other at Golden Wheels? Oh, Man Fridays! How could I ever, ever forget that. That was indeed a right of passage.

I'm not in Blackpool anymore but my best friends are, and I do get nostalgic when I visit...which is many times a month. I was happy there.

Africa is warmer. At least.

We went last summer on the way home north on holiday with DH and DD. It was bloody appalling and we couldn't leave soon enough. Horrible place.

Tanfastic, maybe we can grab Catgirl and have a wee meet?

And all very handy for a viewing of the Mold Cape.

I used to alternate Saturdays between Golden Wheels ( skating really badly whilst hyped up on additives from lots of slush puppies), and the Fun House on the Pleasure Beach ( taking a layer of skin off my shins and elbows on all the death trap rides).