The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Blackpool, Lancashire*

Blackpool, Lancashire Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• warehouse, used to b in the rok gardens
• Sinless, on the main promenade.
• Nick's Garage...... in Norbreck (now re-furbished so doesn't have as much impact as when you had to use the watering can as a toilet.except girls who used the outside vegetable patch amenities.) The best hang out!! but never to return now.sorry you missed it!
• The Tower of course!!!!!!!
• Blackpool Tower
• Was DERBY BATHS. Was the NOrth Pier JETTY Part of a Listed building but the council allowed it to be demolished! The OLD FOXHALL HOTEL they did the same to that.
• the coral island amusments arcade looks pretty cool
• The Grand Theatre.
• The Sea Life Centre on the promenade is fantastic espcelliay on wet days, there are 10 foot shark and lots more to see
• The Tache
• Bloomfield Rd...the museum of English Football
• What's left of the old building above Pricebusters. If you can ignore the tat on the groundfloor the building above and clock tower are top art deco. Same for the old Odeon building.
• The Town Hall.
• Hounds hill undercover carpark, pretty good spot in any weather.
• Coral Island cos what they've done to the front looks really impressive.
• The Beautiful, Frank Matcham designed, Grand Theatre.
• The Grand Theatre is incredibly Edwardian. The Winter Gardens (my dad was resident drummer in the late 50s with the Tommy Jones orchestra).
• The Tower of course
• Town Hall

Demolish It Now Building

• police station bpool
• the whole place its the arsehole of england nuke it now
• The tower! I know to people from the north west it is beautiful(yeah right, kid yourselves) but to the rest of the country, sorry, the world, it is just a joke-a pathetic attempt to copy the eiffel tower(look it up in the history books)Take a picture of both buildings, put them next to each other and compere the two-Blackpool tower isn't so smart now is it? Actually the whole town is sruffy
• All the townie/dance clubs...run them out of town...Hee! Hee!
• Re furnish the Winter Gardens to its former glory. demolish most of Talbot road and make it better.
• Mere Park pub,,,,with the landlady still inside,,drunken slag!
• like you the Sand-Castle, the Zoo
• Houndshill Shopping Centre. It just sucks!
• The bus station and the Palace
• The palace, townhall, police station, hounds hill shopping arcade, that land could be better used for skaters
• Heaven and Hell
• Sandcastle....in fact the whole of the seafront
• The Tory club on Buchanan Street
• Most of the so called golden mile, very tacky.
• The town hall, preferably nuked while all the council members are there, wondering which of our skatespots to ruin next.
• Blackpool college. A huge concrete slab that looks worse than the police station. Every time I go here feeling happy, then when I walk through the door I get depressed, feel sick and become miserable.
• The horrendous Palace buildings.
• Erm...the tower!!!! hehe nah
• The SandCastle
• viking hotel on the prom...what an eyesore
• Bloomfield Rd Football Ground.
• Hounds Hill
• ermmm, most of blackpool really (CJW)

The Best Things

• K.O.D (not that i know wot that means or that its anythin ta do wit me
• Sinless.
• Pontins holiday camp near Lytham-Great childhood memories
• Blackpool is cool, yeah its a bit tacky but all seaside towns are. I was raised here from 2 yrs old and I love it!!!!
• the weather for windsurfing, Kite flying and catching colds good enough to stay off work. the people who live there.
• All the young pussy that comes to town in summer.
• The wonderful CLEAN? SEA and SAND
• go on the pasaje del terror for sure, it is mental!! oh and the horror bar is nifty too. the pepsi max when it first dives into the sea (well it looks that way anyway).
• The bus to St Annes
• Donkeys, the Tower, the Tower circus where the middle fills up with water at the end, the illuminations, the Grand Theatre.
• Well, funniest thing. When you're walking along the prom and some bulky guy trying to con - sorry interest tourists in some crap (let's be honest) comes up to you saying, 'Alright ladies. So where are from then?' the priceless look on their faces when you reply Blackpool. ahhhhh, fun times
• The Tower. I mean it's a horrid colour - but who else has one?!
• Women, beer and the sunshine.
• The people The smell of the sea air skating on the smooth prom when the brass bands play tiddly um pom pom
• friendly skaters
• About as unpretentious and unsophisticated as a town can be. The air. TVR Cars. No poncey, overpriced, London-type restaurants.
• Early spring or late fall after the illuminations. Spring best though when evrything is beeing painted to make ready for the summer. The spring tides when rough. I used to remember the sea spray blowing up to Bankhay St. I am a sandgrownun and look forward to visits. The three piers.
• Party in the Park. Party on the Prom. (happen in August) Lots of entertainment, lots of booze, lots of gang fights (hold on, is that a good thing?).
• Loads of people from all over the country think it's ace, so we should too.
• The Pasaje Del Terror
• getting rid of a headache on the Prom on a windy day. the sunken gardens at night in the summertime.
• stanley park especially around the italian gardens.....sheer beauty and a credit to the people who look after it
• THE NIGHT LIFE
• Plenty to do, sea,shows
• Check out the Pasaje Del Terror on the Pleasure Beach - It's pricey but it will scare the s**t outta you !
• Brown Sea
• Life, active and fun, a great place to see once (CJW)
• Woody lives there!!!!!!!!!! Independent trucks rule: ride the best fuck the rest!
• The best thing about Blackpool is out of Blackpool - Poulton-le-Fylde (just because I live there!). Not only is it the home of the lovely (?) Keith Harris, but Barry Chuckle from the Chuckle Brothers has been seen in the vicinity... impressive or what! It's a great place to go to get away from the tourists. Try Lawdy Miss Clawdys, though it can be a bit townie at the weekends. And Seniors chippie (Newton Drive) is the best in Lancashire, if not the world!
• Stanley Park.
• The smell of sand, beer and chips on a hot August day in South Shore.
• The people - Lancashire folk area a breed apart (I should know, I'm a sandgrown'un).
• Promenade in February; great walks, wild sea.
• It's good for a cheep tacky weekend on the piss.
• Being there in the winter when there aren't any tourists and you have the place to yourself. Blackpool Football Club.
• Hmmm... toughie. But somehow I always enjoy it when I'm back home. The Pepsi Max Big One (rollercoaster) has to be tried.

The Worst Things

• Blackpool is just a glorified dosshole for northern hooligans-it's expensive, it's tacky, its scruffy, people come up to you on the prom and try to rip you off, i.e. 14 year old kids on the prom selling packets of old holburn for £4 constantly looking over their sholders for the pigs If you want to know why most people go abroad for their holidays, take one look at Blackpool and you'll quickly find out why!
• Blackpool opitimises everything that is bad about the English. It's naff, ugly, uncultured and full of thick, ignorant louts and dirty cheap slappers. I don't think I've ever seen so many shell suits, nasty jewelry and smackheads in my entire life. Bomb it!
• Townies and trendies giving grief to people because they cant handle their cider!!!!!! Too much litter!!!
• Day trippers and their summer smells they bring with them.
• The corrupt council who have been taking back-handers of builders for years,,,if i had a machine gun,,,,,
• Kami-KARZI pigeons, Dog S--t all the litter.
• when the tram drivers are on strike,
• The tourists who take over the place and are bloody rude. Is it any wonder we all hate you?
• The bus to Preston
• The bouncers
• All the porno stuff in the tacky shops, drunks and yobs.
• Lager louts starting on people smaller than them, that's only because a person the same size would knock them through a wall.
• Tourists Townies
• Preston is only 18 miles away!!! What a dump
• hasstle
• Blackpool Transport. There's no point in having timetables - they should just replace them with signs that say "Route 14 - Whenever we bloody feel like it". It NEVER snows here. The litter especially during the summer. The Landaus on the promenade holding up the traffic.
• The place is infested with drunks, junkies, thugs and coppers who can't be bothered.
• The dirty sands. Modernized pubs and the Palace. The old palace with its two ballrooms a movie hous and a variety show was great.
• Some holidaymakers are just stupid and they make you laugh. Like walking into roads expecting not to get run over, that sort of thing. Also, too many old people doddering along or trying to run you over in their little electric car things. If its not that then they're trying to push in front of you at the bus stop.
• Junkies and Drunks.
• Stupid locals who hate tourists (why do you think Blackpool was built in the first place).
• KIDS SCREAMING ON TRAMS, TOURISTS - RIP OFF IN SEASON AND TOO MANY BLOODY QUES. THE WEATHER- RAIN AND WIND EVERY BLOODY DAY
• the bloody tourists and the slappers who come up here for the weekend
• Holiday makers, Arcades
• The weather !
• Every bugger wants to take your money, its so damned expenisive, and ignore the street games, they are rigged
• Gullwing and Tracker SUCKS!!!
• The hideous modern architecture of the town centre amusement arcades - turning Woolworths next to the Tower into some tacky bazaar.
• Idiot holidaymakers.
• It's too tacky to live in, it's rough, full of armed police and road blocks when Conservative party conference is on.
• The worst thing I found was when you can't move down town during the season.
• The fact that there are so few real "Sandgrownuns" Come on, hands up all those who were actually born *and* raised in the Pool?
• Bloody tourists...

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