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Blackpool has so much to offer, yet on the other hand has still so much to massively improve on and that was the case before all the closures due to COVID. It's really good to hear that they are finally investing in the town. Have a good week! - Nettie.
I have started to binge watch your channel. I love your video style here. The music and the facts on the screen. Would love to see more of this! I am also from overseas living in the UK and I have a whole new respect for Blackpool than before. I sadly had a very uninformed and biased view, that it was tacky all around and that it was only amazing in the old days. It has a lot more charm than I thought. Thank you for educating me.
Great video. I watched the previous one showing Blackpool off in the sun, brought back lots of fab memories and made me feel all warm and fuzzy, then clicked on this one, feel all sad again!
My dad used to work in the police station and I was able to see it a few times in my life through seeing him at work and he showed me parts of it that weren't in use anymore the other year when people started to use the new police station instead. Had such an eerie feel in there haha
I was in Blackpool this week for a gig, which was in the Empress Ballroom in the Winter Gardens, having seen the Spanish Suite, I’m gutted I didn’t get a chance to explore there more. I have to say though, that Blackpool is the dullest and saddest resort I’ve ever been to, not so much for the resort itself, but the dilapidation and general condition of the surrounding areas with so many “guest houses” having been shut down and boarded up etc. I would have loved to have visited Blackpool in its heyday, people of an older generation speak so fondly of it.
The risks you take to keep us entertained @Tim... That's dedication.. Dodgy hotels, rough areas, quality checking all those fish and chips so we don't get food poisoning. Much appreciate!
So haunting and liminal. There’s something about the old 60’s concrete aesthetic in parts of the UK that drive me crazy for some reason. Like looking into some nostalgia I wasn’t a part of or have even experienced. Like Thamesmead and it’s brutalist apartment blocks, I can’t even really describe it but it’s so much more interesting to look at and explore than the cut and paste stores/design you see everywhere now.
I agree , I’m old enough to remember when these brutalist buildings were brand new and interesting and modern . I love them 👍🏻 funny you should mention Thamesmead as I watched a video about it here on YT just the other week .
That's strange! I absolutely hate concrete in construction work. I find it cold and it so easily becomes stained giving the buildings a neglected and derelict appearance.
That was fascinating, thanks Tim. That Police station was HIDEOUS although to be fair nearly all 60's buildings are concrete carbuncles and need demolishing. Love the facade of the Grand Theatre, stunning as is the Winter Gardens. I really enjoyed this one Tim!
My Nan and my Auntie were both hospitalised for over a week after eating at the Winter Gardens (undercooked shepherds pie), upon release from hospital my Auntie died on the flight home after having a massive stroke. I’ve hated the place ever since then, RIP Nan and Auntie Murial
I could be wrong, but I think the architectural design of the old police station is called 'brutalist'. In this case, especially the surrounding walkways too. I know I'm in a minority, but for some reason I actually like it.
The Old Post Office was the Main Telephone Exchange where all the Telephone Operators used to work. My mum worked there in the 1950's and 60's. The building also housed all the electronic switch gear for thousands and thousands of telephone lines
I was in Blackpool on 15/16-06-22 and to my surprise, it appeared as though some of Bonny Street Market was open. I love Blackpool. It has so much to offer🥰
Thanks for another great video. I had an aunty living in Blackpool in the 70's/80's and visited many times but never to the Winter Gardens. Stunning building. Have a good week. Debbie & Patrick
The old post office is still a fully functional telephone exchange. I’m in there most days and all the old desks, furniture and office space are still in place.
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Fantastic Tim , what an outstanding vlog you have put together of The Winter Gardens, it is such a beautiful place and the history behind it is remarkable, your passion and admiration for the winter gardens is truly a breath of fresh air,.as always thank you for sharing ♥️😃👍
The remains of the pedestrian bridge at 01:58 were part of a walkway from the Hounds Hill shopping centre directly to the seaward side of the Promenade. There was no access for prams and pushchairs and it was easier - and quicker- to walk at gound level avoiding all the steps. It was designed in the standard 1970s in the new 'brutalist' style of concrete much loved by council planners at the time (and no one else). The Promenade was much enhanced when the bridge over the road and te tramtracks was was demolished.
This was standard Brutalist ideological fare - only cars and lorries at ground level, all pedestrians and access to buildings at 1st floor level for all new construction. Bristol had similar raised access that was intended to go right across the city including escalator blocks for access. It was never fully realised and all that remains now are a few metres of orphaned terrace that need to be kept to provide access to the few remaining buildings.
WoW! The start of your video, reminds me of the famous music video from the early 1980's by The Specials, called 'Ghost Town'! Thank you for showing us this very emotive video. xxxx
Wow, the Winter Gardens, amazing building! I used to state with relatives in Blackpool back in the 70s and I remember going to the Tower and the Pleasure Beach but not the Winter Gardens. I missed out there clearly. It's all changed so, so much.
I was born in Blackpool and spent the first 26 years of my life there. It’s a town that’s deprived, a fair amount of poverty, but the people are salt of the earth and down to earth. The redevelopment of the town is well over due. Not just the front, but areas like Mereside, Grange Park, Revoe, Marton (Marton lad myself). Hopefully my hometown will start to get back to its former glory
I attended the Rebellion festival last year and not only was a great time had (R fest outside on the prom in glorious weather was just perfect) but I couldn't get over how beautiful the winter gardens are.
Blackpool Winter Gardens is a huge building with loads of venue within it, loads of things go on it it all yr from concerts, competitions and shows 2 mention a few also cafe and a restaurant. One of Mt favourite places there. Thanx for walk 🚶♀️ keep up the good work 🙂
Blackpool is one of them magical places you went to as a kid, and going back as an adult is a complete let-down. Yeah, I've been back for stag do's and all that, had good weekends, but having a wander around where all the fancy old BnB's used to be, but now in so much of a decrepit state it's depressing. Basically, there is no excuse for how it ended up if you ask me, they shoved immigrants in the BnB places, these places took that easy money, but it all got dragged down. For years there was no reinvestment back into the town... The council took the money and ran, probably hoarded in an Icelandic bank account and then lost during the financial crisis, as many councils money did... But noone can tell me that town didnt make money to be reinvested and maintained... Because if they do... I'd call them a liar! I have little to no interest in going back to Blackpool if I'm honest, because everytime I do, it spoils memories I have when my grandparents used to take me.
@@WalkWithMeTim Yeah, I mean, I'm a bit of a bugger for spying stuff, I love old architectural stuff like, a bit like yourself... But my problem is, I have a keen eye... To keen in fact. And it's just not here in the UK, as a comparison, take Paris, it's got the tower and all that, which all looks lovely when lit up on a night. During the day though, it is indeed, a s&*thole. Like, if your standing at the bottom of the Champs-Elysees just down from the cafes and shops and look down towards the ferris wheel in the Place de la Concorde, it's a boulevard (Petit Palace is on the right), it's lined with white flagstones, and obviously over the years, these flagstones have needed to be replaced. Now in such a place, you would "expect" them to be replaced with other similar flagstones, maybe not EXACTLY the same, but, given the location, you'd think they would try... But nope, what have they used... Tarmac, black horrible splodges of tarmac just dotted all the way down. I look and think.... That's terrible! Another one for me is the bins there... OMG... The bins!!! :D While here in the UK we have decent bins, we've tried... Our bins generally have ashtrays in the tops now and a place for gum and they are solid things you cannot see the rubbish in... In Paris, they are just a bit of metal sticking up out of the ground with a bin liners held in place by a metal ring, usually white so you can see all the rubbish and the complementary 1000 butt ends just chucked on the floor next to them because the French do enjoy a smoke it seems, lol! But they just look awful, and again, your standing next to a touristy place, and they just whacked a poor excuse for a bin next to it, and if it's windy and the bag comes away, generally, there is just shite blowing everywhere. I could go on with Paris, but when they call it the City of Romance, lol, tell ya, I'd rather take the other half to Yemen! ;)
I've was there when I was 11,12, 13, 14, always in October. I'm 37 now and looking at this video isn't ehat I remember and it's a damn shame because it was my childhood memories. I'm from Dundee Scotland and never got to go abroad until I met my wife and started exploring the world first off Europe then now and always America been to every major city and going to New York was my dream Las Vegas was my wife's we went to New York at Xmas and best thing ever I felt like I completed something huge in life... that was for my 30th... took my misses to Vegas for hers went to florida inbetween them two years. We try precovid go away 4 times a year. But now... with the prices of everything not sure how we will manage to live that life. Daughter away to be 16 next year and still in mid to late 30s and my father passed and mums in end of life care... barely able.to have a date night now. Life just feels like everything around us is getting more and more depressing and this country is going downhill rapidly. Where will we be in 10-20 years...
@@WalkWithMeTim love your videos and hate at same time... to see childhood memories like this sucks the life outta you. But you give us fantastic content but sad at the same time. I'll.never stop watching
At 1.46 the footbridge alongside T.K.Maxx was part of the C & A store I opened in July 1974. Blackpool was much busier back in the 70/80/90s . The footbridge crossed to the Promenade and the building opposite hadn't been built! Now I'm 79 years old and living in South Wales; it's warmer down here! I'll check if I have some photos from '74
@@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways as it left the UK market in 2000 I'm guessing Tim does. I've still got an oversized green denim shirt I got reduced as a gift by the staff on my 18th birthday in 1994; still wear it with a dress on occasions.
Bonny Street Market is set to reopen at Easter, due to the fact they won’t be starting any work on that side until next year I think it is, the new Multi Storey Car Park is going up first. The bottom of the old police station are some of the courts and offices too
i moved to blackpool august 2021, i live 800 yards away from the tower, blackpool is really bieng overdone and beautiful, everytime i see the tower light up it makes me so happy.
Thanks for the video. Some great footage of the Winter Gardens - what a lovely building - and the shopping precinct. Personally I've always found Blackpool the saddest seaside resort in the world. It always seems to be wet weather there whenever I've seen it, but maybe I'm just spoilt with Greece, Croatia or Portugal. A lot of Blackpool has also been ruined over the years by thoughtless building developers, that gigantic cube and its surroundings are simply awful to look at. Also, it's a shame to see so many buildings with boarded up windows. Why were there hardly any people in the streets? Was it Sunday? I hope this new development changes things for the better.
The elegance of the Winter Gardens, the Colonnades, the Tower. All of these truly beautiful creations are in stark contrast to the tat of nearby modern structures and the vulgarity of associated "entertainments". The Victorians were a classier bunch than us.
Hi Tim nice to see you in blackpool again nice seeing the winter gardens I have never been in the wintergreen before I'll have to go in when I come down next
Lovely video, we love the Winter gardens they are beautiful. The old post office deserves to be saved and regenerated as they too are lovely buildings unlike the old police station which will be better served being demolished!!! as much as there is some very nice modern architecture such as the lights in the shopping area many older buildings were just so much more attractive to look at. sad to see so many closed shops but its the same story up and down the whole of the UK. Was very sad to also see Bonny Street market looking anything but Bonny! we always enjoyed a stroll around that market and i really think a new outdoor old fashioned street market needs to be included in the regeneration if the stall holders are still out there to make use of it?
Well, I was thinking of running a hotel in Blackpool, but watching your videos has really helped me to decide against it. I can't afford to take the risk, and there's so much competition anyway. It's not the right time it seems. Looks like it could be a really fun place, though.
Never thought I'd like Blackpool as I'm a down south snob, but really enjoyed myself. I couldn't believe how big the beach was, love to go again before it gets regenerated.
As a Glaswegian it saddens me to see Blackpool like this. I can remember when Blackpool turned into a mini Glasgow during the last two weeks in July. One thing hasn’t changed is the rain. The north of England like Scotland never recovered from the Thatcher years
Yes lv been a few years ago came across as rundown, cheep , government's have neglected the north, also drove to Whitehaven the poverty was plain to see. But the question is labour had Tony Blair in power for a decade and he gave you nothing. I'm from the South East England, couldn't believe that the Train was running on diesel , something seams broken
They were thriving through the Thatcher years... Most of the places that are run down in the North of England have been Labour run councils for most of their time.
I've just come back from 4 nights in Blackpool and let me tell you, it's still a mini Glasgow in season. My hotel and all the hotels on my street were full of Scots, in fact I'm adamant there were more Scots than locals, it was quality.
@@alistairpatterson429 my son and daughter in law are heading down on Friday for the football they are really looking forward to it weather looking great. Booked into big blue hotel 🌞🌞
About 60 years ago I remember Bonny Street was a fairground.I don't know when it became a market. We stayed in a b&b opposite the Joke shop , Bond Street ? across the now car park, was a train station then.
Tim, very interesting video. Blackpool has an interesting blend of old and new architecture. The Winter Gardens with upmarket bars and restaurants looks fabulous. Thanks for uploading 👍
Fantastic video, makes me want to go again 😀. I was last there around six years ago. I was in the same hotel you mentioned, i was in a window less room next to the kitchen during a week off very strong winds so you can imagine kitchen noise and banging doors all night!!! That was fun... Being from Essex south end on sea has a very similar vibe to Blackpool a lot shutdown shops but no gravy with the chips 🤗.
I used to frequent Blackpool from 2008 moved there in 2010 and left in 2013. Some of the best years of my life. Miss the place had a great time there. Back then the night life was great with Sanuk and Syndicate nightclub" French man's cove and tash.
Excellent Tim You were very fair and showed both sides of things, as best you could. Agree with you that the Winter Gardens and Opera House are incredible, but tiny point is that you actually walked into the Floral Hall after the Morecambe and Wise statue. The Spanish Hall is actually upstairs, above the Spanish galleon room, both of which are amazing, along with a Baronial Hall and a Renaissance Room. All were crested in.the thirties by a film set designer called Andrew Mazzei and despite what they look like they are made of, they are ALL plasterwork. The galleon has a local link, as after the Spanish Armada was beaten, (mostly by our wonderful weather rather than any clever British battle plans), many Spanish swam ashore along our coast and married local girls. I went to school with someone whose great great etc..grandad was an Armardan sailor. In the plasterwork it has 1588 moulded into the wall to show the link. Excellent. Many thanks.
I love the town I live in its beautiful 😍, I've actually danced on the winter Garden stage and ill tell you right now it is nerve racking looking out on all them people 😀
I must be weird. There’s something about the gloominess and desolation I find quite comforting, those now forlorn, deserted burger bars and arcades that are ghosts of happier times. On the whole, I dislike crowds. Having an empty shopping arcade to myself is right up my alley. The melancholy of the whole place makes me quite happy for some reason.
I would like to see even more interiors - the Blackpool Tower Dungeon (!), and the Grand Theatre look amazing. The drop-down comment facts are interesting and add a lot and the weather adds to the atmosphere. Never been to Blackpool but this really makes me want to go. IMHO this is one of your best videos. Greetings from sunny (dry) California.
Poor old Blackpool. Many memories both happy and sad, but haven't been back since we got out of the car in a multi storey car park, and were greeted by two blokes shooting up on the stairwells. We just looked at each other and got back in the car and left.
In 1977, I was the heaviest baby to be born at Victoria Hospital in Blackpool. I weighted in at a stone, which is about 6.4 kilograms. However, we moved away from Blackpool when I was one, and don't think I've been back. Be interesting to see if I'm still the heaviest.
The old Police station is very similar to the one which used to stand next to Wigan and Leigh Court House on Darlington Street, Wigan. Same buff coloured exterior tiles, strange square arches on the ground floor and overall, squat boxy design.
I wanted to take the kid's to Blackpool for the weekend but for the price of a half decent bed and breakfast for 2 night's we could go all inclusive to Spain.
Yo check the travellodge that just opened on Blackpool north, can go sunday- Thursday for 30 quid, pleasure because has 5 quid of each ticket with may500 code at checkout, got a night there and tickets for the pleasure beach plus trains for 80 each, on a Monday so park should be quiet too
Hear this quiet often….Just baffles me , you do know Spain is quiet a long way away ? As in , it requires a plane journey or a Marathin car journey at very least…..So yeah, the maths just don’t add up lol.
@@cageragemalia he's not wrong, if your on peak/ weekend it's over 100 a night to stay in Blackpool. Depending on how far your driving to get there, you could probably get flights for the same price... Poland is a far way away, it would cost me £30 to fly to Krakow. But nearly 100 on trains to London
Blackpool is rather rundown and depressed in a lot of ways but it has some phenomenal venues and public spaces if they could only figure out some way of attracting more people back.
@@WalkWithMeTim I can still remember it to this day, I was convinced I wasnt dreaming it is it still there. There used to be like a satalite dish on either end at the top and you could hear people talking down it
Quite funny. 11011 (as in the shapes on the lamps of the Old Post Office) bring up the Ascii character of an empty box if you do a binary to ascii conversion. Time travellers exist amongst us!
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I used to love Blackpool when I was a kid and early teen, simpler times back then. Cheers for posting.
Blackpool has so much to offer, yet on the other hand has still so much to massively improve on and that was the case before all the closures due to COVID. It's really good to hear that they are finally investing in the town. Have a good week! - Nettie.
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@@WalkWithMeTim I’m confused, the video was about Blackpool 😁
@@WalkWithMeTim 🤣
@@earsandideas7266 it is blackpool
Just found your channel today and been watching for around 2 hours now, if that doesn’t deserve a sub I don’t know what does 😂 loving the content
Wow appreciate that .. thanks
I have started to binge watch your channel. I love your video style here. The music and the facts on the screen. Would love to see more of this! I am also from overseas living in the UK and I have a whole new respect for Blackpool than before. I sadly had a very uninformed and biased view, that it was tacky all around and that it was only amazing in the old days. It has a lot more charm than I thought. Thank you for educating me.
Great video. I watched the previous one showing Blackpool off in the sun, brought back lots of fab memories and made me feel all warm and fuzzy, then clicked on this one, feel all sad again!
My dad used to work in the police station and I was able to see it a few times in my life through seeing him at work and he showed me parts of it that weren't in use anymore the other year when people started to use the new police station instead. Had such an eerie feel in there haha
I know spooky
Blackpools old theatres are beautiful and bring back memories of many shows of times gone by
indeed Rosie
I was in Blackpool this week for a gig, which was in the Empress Ballroom in the Winter Gardens, having seen the Spanish Suite, I’m gutted I didn’t get a chance to explore there more. I have to say though, that Blackpool is the dullest and saddest resort I’ve ever been to, not so much for the resort itself, but the dilapidation and general condition of the surrounding areas with so many “guest houses” having been shut down and boarded up etc. I would have loved to have visited Blackpool in its heyday, people of an older generation speak so fondly of it.
agree I love this place
The risks you take to keep us entertained @Tim... That's dedication.. Dodgy hotels, rough areas, quality checking all those fish and chips so we don't get food poisoning. Much appreciate!
Lol
He didn't even go near a rough area.
Wow! Someone doesn't understand a tongue in cheek comment.
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So haunting and liminal. There’s something about the old 60’s concrete aesthetic in parts of the UK that drive me crazy for some reason. Like looking into some nostalgia I wasn’t a part of or have even experienced. Like Thamesmead and it’s brutalist apartment blocks, I can’t even really describe it but it’s so much more interesting to look at and explore than the cut and paste stores/design you see everywhere now.
I agree , I’m old enough to remember when these brutalist buildings were brand new and interesting and modern . I love them 👍🏻 funny you should mention Thamesmead as I watched a video about it here on YT just the other week .
@@thornbird6768 Jago Hazard possibly?
Where do you live Dan?
They would be interesting if anybody cleaned the gunk off the concrete structures..
That's strange! I absolutely hate concrete in construction work. I find it cold and it so easily becomes stained giving the buildings a neglected and derelict appearance.
That was fascinating, thanks Tim. That Police station was HIDEOUS although to be fair nearly all 60's buildings are concrete carbuncles and need demolishing. Love the facade of the Grand Theatre, stunning as is the Winter Gardens. I really enjoyed this one Tim!
Thanks jeff
Lol they turned ours into a Hotel in wigan 😯
My Nan and my Auntie were both hospitalised for over a week after eating at the Winter Gardens (undercooked shepherds pie), upon release from hospital my Auntie died on the flight home after having a massive stroke.
I’ve hated the place ever since then, RIP Nan and Auntie Murial
I could be wrong, but I think the architectural design of the old police station is called 'brutalist'. In this case, especially the surrounding walkways too. I know I'm in a minority, but for some reason I actually like it.
@@sputumtube I agree, it’s very much a period design and once you learn about it, it becomes rather tasteful… Each to their own though!
A very nice production Tim, loved the drop down facts and particularly liked the camera movement, it really feels feels like I am walking with you
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The Old Post Office was the Main Telephone Exchange where all the Telephone Operators used to work. My mum worked there in the 1950's and 60's. The building also housed all the electronic switch gear for thousands and thousands of telephone lines
oh wow! thanks Russ
Enjoyed walking with you, from the comfort of my seat, to one of our favourite places. Always enjoy Blackpool
Glad you enjoyed it
All the times I’ve been to Blackpool, I’ve never gone into the Winter Gardens. Cheers for the tour, Tim ❤️👍🏻
You are welcome brian
I was in Blackpool on 15/16-06-22 and to my surprise, it appeared as though some of Bonny Street Market was open.
I love Blackpool. It has so much to offer🥰
agree
Thanks for another great video. I had an aunty living in Blackpool in the 70's/80's and visited many times but never to the Winter Gardens. Stunning building. Have a good week. Debbie & Patrick
Glad you enjoyed it Debbie & Patrick
The old post office is still a fully functional telephone exchange. I’m in there most days and all the old desks, furniture and office space are still in place.
Good to see a video presented with such enthusiasm!
Each video just gets better. Keep up the great work of chronicling this sceptred isle
Thanks
Edited to include
I live 2 minutes from the sea in Clacton, I STILL come to Blackpool for my holidays!
I have mentioned on someone else’s video, it’s worth parking up at your hotel and buying a weekly travel pass for just £14.00
Buses and trams are so frequent and take you virtually door to door.
They’re even disabled accessible, wheelchairs and small disabled scooters are allowed on them too!
Roll on May when I next visit my favourite holiday destination!
I stay at a centrally situated hotel in Reads Avenue, for just £25 pppn B&B!
Thanks David Murphy, see you for a short break in May and a week in October!
Counting the days…
hope you have a good time
Fantastic Tim , what an outstanding vlog you have put together of The Winter Gardens, it is such a beautiful place and the history behind it is remarkable, your passion and admiration for the winter gardens is truly a breath of fresh air,.as always thank you for sharing ♥️😃👍
Glad you enjoyed it Stephen
The remains of the pedestrian bridge at 01:58 were part of a walkway from the Hounds Hill shopping centre directly to the seaward side of the Promenade. There was no access for prams and pushchairs and it was easier - and quicker- to walk at gound level avoiding all the steps. It was designed in the standard 1970s in the new 'brutalist' style of concrete much loved by council planners at the time (and no one else). The Promenade was much enhanced when the bridge over the road and te tramtracks was was demolished.
thanks for the info
That bridge was also the access to The Palace night club. The scene of my social embarrassment as a teenager in the late 80s
This was standard Brutalist ideological fare - only cars and lorries at ground level, all pedestrians and access to buildings at 1st floor level for all new construction. Bristol had similar raised access that was intended to go right across the city including escalator blocks for access. It was never fully realised and all that remains now are a few metres of orphaned terrace that need to be kept to provide access to the few remaining buildings.
WoW! The start of your video, reminds me of the famous music video from the early 1980's by The Specials, called 'Ghost Town'! Thank you for showing us this very emotive video. xxxx
thanks!
Wow, the Winter Gardens, amazing building! I used to state with relatives in Blackpool back in the 70s and I remember going to the Tower and the Pleasure Beach but not the Winter Gardens. I missed out there clearly. It's all changed so, so much.
Its a beautiful building
There used to be a restaurant in there in the 1980s. My grandparents used to take me.
this was a wonderful video, it's great when you stumble upon channels like this. earned a sub no doubt about it!
Wow , thanks
I was born in Blackpool and spent the first 26 years of my life there. It’s a town that’s deprived, a fair amount of poverty, but the people are salt of the earth and down to earth.
The redevelopment of the town is well over due. Not just the front, but areas like Mereside, Grange Park, Revoe, Marton (Marton lad myself). Hopefully my hometown will start to get back to its former glory
yes agree
Marton lad here too.
@@Smudgie used to live on vicarage lane near the little Asda (former Kwik Save)
@@tangerinemisfit I lived just off Common Edge Road, not far from the Highfield pub. Nearly 40 years ago now though.
I’m sure Boris Johnson will come good on his promise to “level up” such deprived areas. He’s an honest man.
I attended the Rebellion festival last year and not only was a great time had (R fest outside on the prom in glorious weather was just perfect) but I couldn't get over how beautiful the winter gardens are.
Blackpool Winter Gardens is a huge building with loads of venue within it, loads of things go on it it all yr from concerts, competitions and shows 2 mention a few also cafe and a restaurant. One of Mt favourite places there. Thanx for walk 🚶♀️ keep up the good work 🙂
Thanks for the info!
I was recommended your channel last night and now I must watch all your videos, brilliant and so insightful 😁🏴
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@@WalkWithMeTim of course! 😁
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Blackpool is one of them magical places you went to as a kid, and going back as an adult is a complete let-down. Yeah, I've been back for stag do's and all that, had good weekends, but having a wander around where all the fancy old BnB's used to be, but now in so much of a decrepit state it's depressing.
Basically, there is no excuse for how it ended up if you ask me, they shoved immigrants in the BnB places, these places took that easy money, but it all got dragged down. For years there was no reinvestment back into the town... The council took the money and ran, probably hoarded in an Icelandic bank account and then lost during the financial crisis, as many councils money did... But noone can tell me that town didnt make money to be reinvested and maintained... Because if they do... I'd call them a liar!
I have little to no interest in going back to Blackpool if I'm honest, because everytime I do, it spoils memories I have when my grandparents used to take me.
thats a shame but understand where you are coming from
@@WalkWithMeTim Yeah, I mean, I'm a bit of a bugger for spying stuff, I love old architectural stuff like, a bit like yourself... But my problem is, I have a keen eye... To keen in fact. And it's just not here in the UK, as a comparison, take Paris, it's got the tower and all that, which all looks lovely when lit up on a night. During the day though, it is indeed, a s&*thole. Like, if your standing at the bottom of the Champs-Elysees just down from the cafes and shops and look down towards the ferris wheel in the Place de la Concorde, it's a boulevard (Petit Palace is on the right), it's lined with white flagstones, and obviously over the years, these flagstones have needed to be replaced. Now in such a place, you would "expect" them to be replaced with other similar flagstones, maybe not EXACTLY the same, but, given the location, you'd think they would try... But nope, what have they used... Tarmac, black horrible splodges of tarmac just dotted all the way down. I look and think.... That's terrible!
Another one for me is the bins there... OMG... The bins!!! :D While here in the UK we have decent bins, we've tried... Our bins generally have ashtrays in the tops now and a place for gum and they are solid things you cannot see the rubbish in... In Paris, they are just a bit of metal sticking up out of the ground with a bin liners held in place by a metal ring, usually white so you can see all the rubbish and the complementary 1000 butt ends just chucked on the floor next to them because the French do enjoy a smoke it seems, lol! But they just look awful, and again, your standing next to a touristy place, and they just whacked a poor excuse for a bin next to it, and if it's windy and the bag comes away, generally, there is just shite blowing everywhere. I could go on with Paris, but when they call it the City of Romance, lol, tell ya, I'd rather take the other half to Yemen! ;)
I've was there when I was 11,12, 13, 14, always in October. I'm 37 now and looking at this video isn't ehat I remember and it's a damn shame because it was my childhood memories. I'm from Dundee Scotland and never got to go abroad until I met my wife and started exploring the world first off Europe then now and always America been to every major city and going to New York was my dream Las Vegas was my wife's we went to New York at Xmas and best thing ever I felt like I completed something huge in life... that was for my 30th... took my misses to Vegas for hers went to florida inbetween them two years. We try precovid go away 4 times a year. But now... with the prices of everything not sure how we will manage to live that life. Daughter away to be 16 next year and still in mid to late 30s and my father passed and mums in end of life care... barely able.to have a date night now. Life just feels like everything around us is getting more and more depressing and this country is going downhill rapidly. Where will we be in 10-20 years...
@@WalkWithMeTim love your videos and hate at same time... to see childhood memories like this sucks the life outta you. But you give us fantastic content but sad at the same time. I'll.never stop watching
At 1.46 the footbridge alongside T.K.Maxx was part of the C & A store I opened in July 1974. Blackpool was much busier back in the 70/80/90s . The footbridge crossed to the Promenade and the building opposite hadn't been built! Now I'm 79 years old and living in South Wales; it's warmer down here! I'll check if I have some photos from '74
you say that but after lockdown visitors went up like 200%
Do you remember C & A or was it before your time!
@@TheMichaelWilcock2016Railways as it left the UK market in 2000 I'm guessing Tim does. I've still got an oversized green denim shirt I got reduced as a gift by the staff on my 18th birthday in 1994; still wear it with a dress on occasions.
Brilliant Vlog Tim. You're one of my favourite vloggers....such clever filming and music accumpliment.
Thanks Sandra
@@WalkWithMeTim be
Bonny Street Market is set to reopen at Easter, due to the fact they won’t be starting any work on that side until next year I think it is, the new Multi Storey Car Park is going up first. The bottom of the old police station are some of the courts and offices too
might reopen but I dont think many stall holders will be there
Good video Tim,always went to Blackpool as a kid and loved it.I’ve been a couple of times with my family and got to say I’m still fond of the place.👍
Absolutely
i moved to blackpool august 2021, i live 800 yards away from the tower, blackpool is really bieng overdone and beautiful, everytime i see the tower light up it makes me so happy.
same here!
Hi Tim. Really interesting seeing the other side of Blackpool. Parts you would not normally see.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very good, I visited Blackpool in 2017 and wandered about not once looking at it in the way you have.
Thanks Matt
It's so eerie and fascinating at the same time! Great video btw dude I enjoy your content 😊👌
Thanks appreciate that
Thanks for the video. Some great footage of the Winter Gardens - what a lovely building - and the shopping precinct.
Personally I've always found Blackpool the saddest seaside resort in the world. It always seems to be wet weather there whenever I've seen it, but maybe I'm just spoilt with Greece, Croatia or Portugal. A lot of Blackpool has also been ruined over the years by thoughtless building developers, that gigantic cube and its surroundings are simply awful to look at. Also, it's a shame to see so many buildings with boarded up windows.
Why were there hardly any people in the streets? Was it Sunday?
I hope this new development changes things for the better.
Nope midweek
You’ve not seen some of the European lowland resorts.
Try going on a sunny day you might find it's less wet.
@@scoppio07 🤣🤣🤣
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The elegance of the Winter Gardens, the Colonnades, the Tower. All of these truly beautiful creations are in stark contrast to the tat of nearby modern structures and the vulgarity of associated "entertainments". The Victorians were a classier bunch than us.
Incredibly well presented video with fantastic Blackpool history, Well Done sir really enjoyed that.
Many thanks! Sean hope you subscribed!
Thanks Tim for another wonderful walk . 👏🏻
My pleasure
Hello from Canada. Enjoyed the tour. I wish all the best for the people and city of Blackpool.
hello Mb
Hi Tim nice to see you in blackpool again nice seeing the winter gardens I have never been in the wintergreen before I'll have to go in when I come down next
You should fiona
An interesting view of Blackpool, in fact a visual work of art, Tim. Thank you. 🙂
U are so welcome
Great Vid Tim it’s great to see another part of Blackpool
Thanks ross
Lovely video, we love the Winter gardens they are beautiful. The old post office deserves to be saved and regenerated as they too are lovely buildings unlike the old police station which will be better served being demolished!!! as much as there is some very nice modern architecture such as the lights in the shopping area many older buildings were just so much more attractive to look at. sad to see so many closed shops but its the same story up and down the whole of the UK. Was very sad to also see Bonny Street market looking anything but Bonny! we always enjoyed a stroll around that market and i really think a new outdoor old fashioned street market needs to be included in the regeneration if the stall holders are still out there to make use of it?
Good idea .. maybe they will
Love Blackpool every year since I was young nearly time to get packed see you September not long now 💚🤣
Well done Tim on another great video. I will try and catch you live again soon!
If anybody ever goes to Blackpool then try the Pastels burger place. It’s in camera at 09:16
It’s amazing.
Thanks for the tip
Really enjoying the cinematography and narration, keep up the good work 👍
thanks
Well, I was thinking of running a hotel in Blackpool, but watching your videos has really helped me to decide against it. I can't afford to take the risk, and there's so much competition anyway. It's not the right time it seems. Looks like it could be a really fun place, though.
Never thought I'd like Blackpool as I'm a down south snob, but really enjoyed myself. I couldn't believe how big the beach was, love to go again before it gets regenerated.
As a Glaswegian it saddens me to see Blackpool like this. I can remember when Blackpool turned into a mini Glasgow during the last two weeks in July. One thing hasn’t changed is the rain. The north of England like Scotland never recovered from the Thatcher years
Still does in season.
Yes lv been a few years ago came across as rundown, cheep , government's have neglected the north, also drove to Whitehaven the poverty was plain to see.
But the question is labour had Tony Blair in power for a decade and he gave you nothing.
I'm from the South East England, couldn't believe that the Train was running on diesel , something seams broken
They were thriving through the Thatcher years... Most of the places that are run down in the North of England have been Labour run councils for most of their time.
I've just come back from 4 nights in Blackpool and let me tell you, it's still a mini Glasgow in season. My hotel and all the hotels on my street were full of Scots, in fact I'm adamant there were more Scots than locals, it was quality.
@@alistairpatterson429 my son and daughter in law are heading down on Friday for the football they are really looking forward to it weather looking great. Booked into big blue hotel 🌞🌞
About 60 years ago I remember Bonny Street was a fairground.I don't know when it became a market. We stayed in a b&b opposite the Joke shop , Bond Street ? across the now car park, was a train station then.
I know how time has passed
The Morecambe and Wise statue is wonderful. Being in Australia, I never knew they got their own statue. Nice gesture, Blackpool. ❤️🧡💙
Morecambe
@@WalkWithMeTim Corrected. I thought I’d got that wrong. Oops.
There is a Eric Morecombe statue also. That is in Morecombe
@@CPTM1 That one's a bit gay though!🤣🤣
Tim, very interesting video. Blackpool has an interesting blend of old and new architecture. The Winter Gardens with upmarket bars and restaurants looks fabulous. Thanks for uploading 👍
You are welcome hope you have subscribed
Your vids just keep getting better and better mate, brilliant 👍👍👍you should have your own T V channel Tim, nice one.
Thanks 👍
I have always enjoyed my time in Blackpool. Love from Glasgow 🇬🇧
thanks Stephen
It is the capital of Scotland
Finally someone who uses high-end music in their videos 💪
Yay
Fantastic video, makes me want to go again 😀.
I was last there around six years ago. I was in the same hotel you mentioned, i was in a window less room next to the kitchen during a week off very strong winds so you can imagine kitchen noise and banging doors all night!!! That was fun...
Being from Essex south end on sea has a very similar vibe to Blackpool a lot shutdown shops but no gravy with the chips 🤗.
no gravy and chips
In my 51 years on this earth and countless times I've been to Blackpool I've never been in the Winter Gardens...its on my to do list now.
Defo
Great video Tim Blackpool never fails to fascinate.
agree
Great Blackpool Tour that's my main holiday for the year and other holiday's during the year
Happy holidays!
I used to frequent Blackpool from 2008 moved there in 2010 and left in 2013. Some of the best years of my life. Miss the place had a great time there. Back then the night life was great with Sanuk and Syndicate nightclub" French man's cove and tash.
love Blackpool
As a kid I remember all the big names playing Blackpool Winter Gardens. Great it still looks so well.
yes its a great place
Winter gardens looks absolutely beautiful.
100% with you on the market, we went for the day back in September and the market wasn't what it used to be when we were kids.
it used to be a great place
Thanks for fab informative video. My wife loves Blackpool. She says the allowing Bonny street to stay open for this season before closing.
Yes till sep
Fascinating - thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fabulous video Tim, Thank You! ❤️
Thanks Yvonne
Excellent Tim
You were very fair and showed both sides of things, as best you could.
Agree with you that the Winter Gardens and Opera House are incredible, but tiny point is that you actually walked into the Floral Hall after the Morecambe and Wise statue.
The Spanish Hall is actually upstairs, above the Spanish galleon room, both of which are amazing, along with a Baronial Hall and a Renaissance Room. All were crested in.the thirties by a film set designer called Andrew Mazzei and despite what they look like they are made of, they are ALL plasterwork.
The galleon has a local link, as after the Spanish Armada was beaten, (mostly by our wonderful weather rather than any clever British battle plans), many Spanish swam ashore along our coast and married local girls.
I went to school with someone whose great great etc..grandad was an Armardan sailor.
In the plasterwork it has 1588 moulded into the wall to show the link.
Excellent.
Many thanks.
wow very kind of you to say thanks for watching
@@WalkWithMeTim You are most welcome
Good video, really enjoyed it. Quality footage to’ what camera do you use?
Thanks
Great video Tim 👍👍
Thanks 😃
I love the town I live in its beautiful 😍, I've actually danced on the winter Garden stage and ill tell you right now it is nerve racking looking out on all them people 😀
I enjoyed your video thanks Tim greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thanks Ian
Beautiful building 😍😍😍🏫
Agree
Thanks Tim for another really enjoyable video
thanks Simon
The original police station, and court house, was on Abingdon street where the Abingdon Street market is now.
:-)
Another interesting video of another place I am familiar with ! Do you only do seaside towns Tim?
no I have done some city and done a lot in London check out the playlists
Will watch later,thanks Tim,hope alls well with you and your family 👪
Thanks 👍
How different it looks in the rain !! Such a shame the Bonny St Market is gone ! places like that give British seaside towns a retro charm .
I must be weird. There’s something about the gloominess and desolation I find quite comforting, those now forlorn, deserted burger bars and arcades that are ghosts of happier times. On the whole, I dislike crowds. Having an empty shopping arcade to myself is right up my alley. The melancholy of the whole place makes me quite happy for some reason.
Me too. I prefer the gloom of it all.
Awesome video... I dont think ive been in the winter gardens since the 80s
Would love to see a Morecambe video
Coming Wednesday
@@WalkWithMeTim ha brilliant
I would like to see even more interiors - the Blackpool Tower Dungeon (!), and the Grand Theatre look amazing. The drop-down comment facts are interesting and add a lot and the weather adds to the atmosphere. Never been to Blackpool but this really makes me want to go. IMHO this is one of your best videos. Greetings from sunny (dry) California.
hey CA
Poor old Blackpool. Many memories both happy and sad, but haven't been back since we got out of the car in a multi storey car park, and were greeted by two blokes shooting up on the stairwells. We just looked at each other and got back in the car and left.
Omg
Looks a pure shite hole now....looks finished as a tourist resort....
In 1977, I was the heaviest baby to be born at Victoria Hospital in Blackpool. I weighted in at a stone, which is about 6.4 kilograms. However, we moved away from Blackpool when I was one, and don't think I've been back. Be interesting to see if I'm still the heaviest.
lol
8:51 Would highly recommend any one to visit the place in the back there called PASTELS really awesome food!
😉
Bonnie Street market was open on Friday when I went.
I love the banner notes you have on this video! ❤
First job i had after leaving the Army in 86 was as a bouncer in Dixies Disco and Maggie Mays on Central Pier, best time of my life...
Market was open and very busy when I went in June, sadly it's last year😓
The old Police station is very similar to the one which used to stand next to Wigan and Leigh Court House on Darlington Street, Wigan. Same buff coloured exterior tiles, strange square arches on the ground floor and overall, squat boxy design.
I wanted to take the kid's to Blackpool for the weekend but for the price of a half decent bed and breakfast for 2 night's we could go all inclusive to Spain.
Yo check the travellodge that just opened on Blackpool north, can go sunday- Thursday for 30 quid, pleasure because has 5 quid of each ticket with may500 code at checkout, got a night there and tickets for the pleasure beach plus trains for 80 each, on a Monday so park should be quiet too
Hear this quiet often….Just baffles me , you do know Spain is quiet a long way away ? As in , it requires a plane journey or a Marathin car journey at very least…..So yeah, the maths just don’t add up lol.
@@cageragemalia he's not wrong, if your on peak/ weekend it's over 100 a night to stay in Blackpool. Depending on how far your driving to get there, you could probably get flights for the same price... Poland is a far way away, it would cost me £30 to fly to Krakow. But nearly 100 on trains to London
@@cageragemalia £34 7 day return to Malaga, cheaper than an uber down Blackpool front.
@@troyfmradio66 so a 7 day holiday to Malaga including flights and all inclusive hotel for £34 pp yeah ?
Blackpool is rather rundown and depressed in a lot of ways but it has some phenomenal venues and public spaces if they could only figure out some way of attracting more people back.
Like I said in the video
I remember spending many a happy childhood in the jungle jims like play area in the winter gardens, where it was all high up
Yes me too
@@WalkWithMeTim I can still remember it to this day, I was convinced I wasnt dreaming it is it still there. There used to be like a satalite dish on either end at the top and you could hear people talking down it
lol
Jungle Jim’s was in the Tower.
Love The Winter Gardens, I've been a few times for the Darts 🎯
Lol
Quite funny. 11011 (as in the shapes on the lamps of the Old Post Office) bring up the Ascii character of an empty box if you do a binary to ascii conversion. Time travellers exist amongst us!