the Blackpool most people don't see!
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- čas přidán 11. 02. 2024
- I walk the back streets of Blackpool on a busy weekend, from checking out the abandoned hotels to the pubs and nightlife most people avoid on their visit to this bizzare seaside town!
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What is like at Night then there?
@@darren253 too scared to check it out 🤣
The biggest problem in Blackpool is that they are thriving on a tower that was built in 1891 the council are bloody useless all they care about is the prom half of the hotels are not viable anymore so want turning in to reasonable housing knock all the crap buildings down or make the owners smartened them up it's a crying shame Central drive in the eighties was a lovely place now look at it
are you for real last season 2023 blackpool attracted the most visitors for a number of years its been top uk attraction since records began maybe next time you visit try actually spending some cash in some of the numerous attractions such as the tower. sealife centre, waxworks. pleasure beach. or the new museum and cinema opening in 2024 . instead of walking around back streets trying to find empty buildings i live in and love blackpool always something to do even when the season isnt on its not blackpool thats bizzare its you hanging around looking through windows i for one will be keeping my curtains shut tightly at night
@@darren253 its great darren plenty to do
Heartbreaking. I lived in Blackpool from 1960 to 1975 and it was Paradise. The local MPs and councillors should be locked up!
Alot of people say that. Shame
@@ScavendonI'd say immigration
@@Scavendon 👀🤣
@@Scavendon how exactly is it the fault of the “population”? Can you elaborate..
@@jordan3522 Pretty simple really, The immigration in this country has went through the roof and is an utter disgrace, Look at what these people are doing to our towns and cities... absolutely wrecking the place, Along side greedy councils who are shutting down our high streets, charging over the odds for rents.... Too many people in such a small country 🙂
Fackin hell thats grim, even the seagulls have fucked off.
Didn't notice that 🤣
Hey, our seagulls can fly with one wing. They learnt how to do that so they could carry a Kebab under the other.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Poor mans las vegas
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Betting shops are always thriving is poverty strickened areas. They feed off the desperate and vulnerable.
True!
poverty stricken people are more likely to be impulsive, on drugs, lack of brain power due to poor nutrition etc... and they get desperate, which is why betting shops are in these areas.
I hardly ever see any punters in them. Surely the day-to-day overheads of rent, rates, salaries, heating, lighting and cleansing must dwarf the revenues.
Are these betting shops just money laundering, if not locally then at boardroom level?
Gouls
No one forces people into them
when you are sat on a chair at a one armed bandit.. you are totally addicted
Blackpool is now usually visited for stag & hen parties. But drugs are absolutely rife in Blackpool now it used to be a really family oriented holiday place
Yeh, gone of the family holidays
@@honestplacesgood for crack business jog on
if u think drugs is bad in blackpool, you haven't witnessed birmingham, my god it's million times worse, i nearly got mugged last year christmas, now i make sure never to go out after dark, brum is just a crime ridden drug ridden complete shite hole,
it's not a place where u wanna raise your kids, trust me
@@sleeping_sheep_slayer_9000
Ye ever see Leon Edwards knockin' abou'?
Hey guy, how you doing.my suspension is up for a day or two.Drugs are rife wherever you go in this country.they can't keep saying it's illegal.tons of illegal drugs are consumed on a daily basis and you can't bring that into the country without official collusion. And it's ok for MPs to get caught using drugs but our kids go to jail for it
Lived there for 3 years and could t wait to leave. It’s a complete shithole.
....not even enjoy the dingy pubs? 🤣
Were did u go😂
@@Uk_bigboss11 anywhere is better than shitpool 🤣
I'm trying to move out cannot wait to leave this jail cell town
Shit pool and Glasgow think I go for Blackpool and I'm from Glasgow
Blackpool, the place that makes Magaluf look upmarket and family friendly.
Need to go back to magaluf!
@@honestplaces lot of improvement work happening in Magaluf, they are trying to move away from the reputation they have had.
@@NeilD163 good. Spain has benidorm for that!
If you want a shag, then shaguluf does what it says on the tin, with nice weather and nice streets
Great videos mate, well done. Subbed today and viewed a few of your videos, including my home town Dewsbury, Glad I live a couple of miles away from the centre!!
The betting shops are always open due to the sheer amount of money they make from all the people who love a bet, plus all the addicts who spend the majority of their day in them
That makes sense 🤣
Yes...that the only activity at the Amusements joint was 40+ers at the slots is sadly telling.
probs there mon-sun from opening time!@@pablodelsegundo9502
I use to work for ‘At The Races’ TV Channel and so our biggest clients were all the betting shops, passing of horse racing as a sport rather than just a tool for the gambling industry.
Years later I’m doing voluntary work for a charity and our collection boxes are always being nicked from betting shops despite being chained down.
Stealing the charity boxes!....crazy!
@@terrygoldsmith335
i think a lot of older people visit for a week just to get a break away from where they live, maybe just walking around the town every day brings back good memories for them
Well said.
The old dears should know better.
They won't find a good knees up in Blackpool anymore !!
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More likely they visit the place to assure themselves their own circumstances aren't as bad as they first feared.
Same way as watching the miseries on Eastenders makes you realise maybe your own life isn't as depressing as the characters on that godforsaken programme
@@andrewphippsphillips1455 Eastender still going? Not watched tell lie vision in years. It maybe that some feel better for visiting bad places, whilst others live in bad places in the first place, made so by them, so no change there then, at one with the surroundings
Some elderly couples like to go and watch shows at the Winter Gardens and dance at the Tower Ballroom, where they may have met in their youth.
I remember going to Blackpool with you yonks back with Kate & Charlotte, was a class day! Glad to see you doing well mate, loving the content!
Cheers pal. Appreciate it 👍
blackpool has always been the top tourist attraction in the uk and always will be reason being even during off season always plenty to do attractions apart from the pleasure beach are open all year round at weekends . the winter gardens and grand theatre mostly still have something going on all times of year . great transport links both nationally and local all year round and in a survey a couple of years ago was voted as having the cleanest air in the uk also in the top 5 for unpolluted worth a visit even better to live in need i say more .
best seaside resort in the uk love it ❤💯
Think you need locking up.....never read such a load of tosh.....you need your eyes testing and head examined
I remember the 60s, 70s, early 80s, heartbreaking now..
Think its time is up
A lot of money is being put into blackpool if you could be bothered to do any research!
@@willowvc1910 too much effort
Used to go there in the 80' with parents everything was thriving,now it looks dead,I'm guessing to drugs and crime idk
There is a lovely bar on the North pier
I can’t believe how downhill Blackpool has gone over the years. Such a shame 🤦🏼♀️
Dunno if it can recover
All that profit from tourists over the years has been creamed off, hardly any gets put back in to at least maintain the place, like most seaside towns are going, outsider owners just milk them to death, then leave.
It's not all like that.I walk all around the resort from the Airport to North some nice residential properties in lots of areas.Some very good priced properties to buy.
Yes there are out of 'town' good areas, but the hustle and bustle areas have been neglected from sheer profiteering in the past, it should not have be allowed to happen, but that's weak councils for you.@@elizaphe58
It's the same everywhere in the UK, there is an agenda going on here.
You got over half a million views massive pal glad to see it surely you get something for that amount i hope you blow up pal but stay humble like you are 😊 its great to see
Thanks for making and sharing this. You definitely summarised the vibe.
Was there for the Airshow in 23. Went on train, it was packed with pissheads already half cut, effing and blinding in front of families with young kids. I used to love going to Blackpool, now it's just a litter strewn open toilet full of idiots from out of town on the lash. Feel sorry for the people who have to live with it, such a shame, hope it can recover and get back to something like it used to be.
Morning Roger to be fair ive been going over 30 years and its always been a shithole full of drunken pissheads and whoars.
Never gonna happen fella. Those people are long gone and we are left with the scum of society. Sad indeed. 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🫵🏽
This is Engerland 🏴 🚽 🗑️
Even Thatcher didnt kill our country as badly as that..........
What is happening in England?
So sad to see the UK like this 😢
The same in alot of town unfortunatly
If it's any comfort, we have a LOT of the same in the US. Look up Gary, Indiana; or if you're feeling like serious poverty porn, Kensington Philadelphia.
@@pablodelsegundo9502 Kensington's issues aren't really down to poverty are they? Many of the homeless there are from other places and go there as it's one big drugs playground with plenty of free handouts. There's no disputing it's worse there than anywhere in UK but it seems more by design than simple poverty.
@@mickymouze1224Unfortunately where America goes, we tend to follow. Give it time, but many places in the UK are prime candidates 😬
The UK isn't all bad we are a beautiful country,I'm sick of people putting it down,some people only try to find the negatives,that's part of the problem! I think they like to have a moan instead of doing something useful
Funny thing is 75% of people slating Blackpool will be there this summer enjoying themselves. There are rough parts to the majority of towns stop being so negative about the place
so true its a great place to live😉
Will they bollix.
Well, I for one will not be one of the 75% going back this year or any year in the near future as I posted earlier it's a Shit hole and a drug haven, it wants a thorough clear out and rebuild.
Some might, but you've pulled that 75% ratio out of your arse. Don't make up statistics to support your argument, you'll just undermine it.
Depends where you live. If you live in the northwest then most likely. People from down south arnt going to Blackpool they have nicer sea side resorts there. Black is okay I think it's the only sea side resort that has 3 peirse however you spell it
Can't believe how much blackpool changed love to go back at some point great video thanx for sharing xx
there were 3 thousand "hotels" in Blackpool so its not surprising that quite a lot are closed besides the ones that close in winter
3 thousand cess pits 😅😅
211 hotels, of which 7 are chain hotels. are you counting B&Bs and AirBnBs?
My god it's changed so much, i remember going to blackpool wi my family in the 80s and it was brilliant, it's almost like a ghost town now, great video btw
Yeh it's had it's day i think!...and thank you
In wintertime it is like a ghost town, picks up after, but not as good as it used to be, even the lights are cheap and nasty, unlike what they used to be, and why do away with the former lights for what now is presented as Blackpool illuminations?
Ah..its become run down over the years then...Sad.
This video is not a true reflection of all that Blackpool offers. You could tell from his comments and areas he was visiting (in February for goodness sake) that he was trashing the town. I expect we could go to many English towns in the depth of winter and see some manky sites.
I find it annoying that people in the comments say I went 50 years ago, I won't be going again and they probably won't juding by this vloggers biased view.
I live and work in Blackpool and his comments are way off reality. We do have issues and we don't deny it but we still welcomed 20 million visitors in 2023!
This guy walks down one of the shittiest streets in Blackpool and makes equally shitty comments. I wonder if this is to put people off. I could show you a thousand streets in our town where people take pride in the homes.
@@janetagbugblah8127 Glad to hear someone supporting Blackpool, and agree with you. The worst time is January through to the likes of the end of April, I have found.
Blackpool is still my favourite seaside place to visit. They should go to Rhyl, complete with a suite of armour, for the evenings, as the place is rotten, absolutely rotten, everything on top of itself, and you feel you are walking through chaos
A thought you said split a g…. As in gram 🤣🤣🤣🤣 good content ma man 👊🏻👌🏻
It’s crazy you go through Lytham it’s so posh then you get to Blackpool I remember when I was younger it was thriving I don’t live too far away shame will be there soon staying in South shore when we go Lytham festival. Thanks for the video 💙
We spent a week there in 2017. Apart from the tower and the tram we thought the best thing there was the M55.
Yeh. Coming out of the place 😅😅😅
@@spillidge45😂😂😂😂😂
The tired old joke was badly told.
My mum ran a guest house in Blackpool in the 90's. I spent my teens and early 20's there. it was an amazing time. It was always absolutely rammed and none of the decay you see here. It's so sad to see what it became.
Yeh....about the time it started going downhill then!
Had many great weekends in the 90s, the place was always buzzing.
It's society my friend, people just don't give a f**k anymore, they're more interested in social media and selfies and getting off their heads on booze and drugs than to actually stop and look around them and see where they are living is a complete dump!!
But hey that's what the Government wants them to do.
The advent of cheap flights put an end to seaside towns
It started going down in the late 80s, but it was still nice in the 90s, by the millennium it was in freefall
And the ONLY strategy the Council can come up with is - more parking restrictions, and increased parking charges....🤕🤕🤕
True
That’s the plan- restrict parking-restrict customers- run the place down
The amount of people on P. I. P. wandering around this toilet of a town is mind blowing.. I've never seen as many fleece wolf patterned items of clothing in my life.. If there is anyone out there holding on to childhood memories of Blackpool.. Nostalgic and fun memories.. Keep them there because this town is nothing short of a toilet, morning, noon and definitely night
Don't be too harsh, there's a great pub there selling explosive diarrhoea on draught and medallions of shit in a urine sauce for lunch!
This made me laugh. I have a wolf fleece 😂 thought it was trendy but I live in London
Went there for a midweek break last year and all i could see was a Sh1t hole, the sea front smells like raw sewerage and the back streets smelt like a cannabis farm, Beirut has nothing on this place. The one good thing that Blackpool has to offer after one visit in years is that it will save me some money, i wont be going back.
Sounds about the typical Blackpool experience that 🤣
Raw
Beirut has better weather, so Blackpool beats that? 😂😂
Lol roar sewage!!!
Have you ever been to Beirut? I have it’s amazing! A really classy place! Amazing clubs, restaurants and bars…..it’s where the whole of the Middle East goes to party!
I'd pay good money to see Jacob Rees Mogg follow you around the side streets of Blackpool 😂
Who is that? 🤣
@@honestplacessome southern mp
@@Hazeman8383
I bet his local town doesn't look as bad as this shithole. where are all the "Northern" MPs ?.
Good to see the labor heartlands doing so well 😂
@@daneelolivaw602 lock em in the cupboards in the the commons mate
I spent the first 7 years of my life in Blackpool, born there, i remember going down the sea front holding my nanas hand ❤, it was a lot different back then, it was a good place,its a drastic shame what has happened to Blackpool, great video mate i really enjoyed it❤ 🇬🇧
I lived in Blackpool 1981 1984 I lived in 16 York street Dalebrook hotel next to the jaggy thistle, I worked for crewe John's delivering beers,wines and spirits to all the small hotel's and guest houses plus the clubs like trades club, British legion Tory club etc. The night lige was Dixie land show bar central pier sands shades I drunk in the lifeboat pub great memories and I am Scottish and I had great English friends good guys they looked after me great life I was 16 left at 19, loved the place ❤
Sounds like your time there was not too bad!
@@honestplaces loved it also stayed kirby road, hornby road coronation street chelford road Yorkshire street we moved a lot buying and selling I know every street in Blackpool was down a year back at the Blackpool vrs Rangers game
Last time I was in Blackpool was 94. That's when the stag and hen parties started going there and were probably a major factor of it going downhill. You could see they were just there to get drunk and wreck the place. A family ain't going to go to Blackpool when they can go to Spain for the same money and avoid all the swearing and pissheads.
Depends where you go in Spain. But Benidorm is a complete dump now. Full of drunks causing trouble and booze. All inclusive hotel food is cheap sloppy crap now as hotels cut costs. Bars and cafes are closing because the EU banned Brits staying more than 90 days and Brits aren’t allowed to work in Spain, so they left their apartments and caravans and went home. Nobody to support the bars & cafes off season and can’t employ Brits. So they close down. Benidorm is becoming just like Blackpool, crime, street scams etc. But to be fair Blackpool offered more than Benidorm, there were decent shows, wax works, museums, the tower, tower ball room. Decent tasty hotel food. Not like the trash served up in all inclusive hotels. Benidorm offers far less, yes it’s sunny but very few water sports like you’d expect in a Mediterranean resort, only places to get drunk. Soon you’ll need Etias visas to visit Spain, proof of finances, return ticket etc all coming soon so more queues and stress in airports and no doubt fewer and fewer Brits will go to Benidorm. Id avoid holidays in EU countries now for those reasons. Maybe with that Blackpool will make a comeback.
@@ELPaso1990TX Europe hates Britain. That much is bloody obvious.
Civil ceremony parties more like
@@ELPaso1990TX What planet are you on? Blackpool is a hellscape. Even Benidorm is superior to Blackpool, anywhere in Spain is. I’d personally opt for Almería or Cadiz. Anywhere is Spain can produce superior food to Blackpool food 🤢. More culture, more interesting things to see and do, cheaper ale and better weather. Blackpool is *not* making a comeback.
@@unusedsub3003 oh yes I agree there are some beautiful parts of Spain especially Seville, Granada and Spanish food is much better than Blackpool food. I was really referring to the very poor quality food found in all inc hotels in Benidorm which is more like slop. All inc food was nice about 20 years ago, but having been to Benidorm recently it was very disappointing and other guests agreed it’s gone down hill rapidly. Benidorm I found to be very rough more like a council estate with palm trees. Vomit and urine stains on the pavement, swearing, drunken violence, muggings etc. I agree however Benidorm is not the real Spain and it’s very unfair to judge Spain on what people see in Benidorm. You really can’t compare the two places, Spain and Benidorm.
I was in Blackpool last year and I had a crack head ranting and raving at me because I refused to buy him a pizza. The pizza shop I was in had to bribe him to go to the other end of the shop and leave customers alone. I think they knew I was seconds away from breaking his nose.
been there probably flames
@@dropthebomb6636 Pizza shop was called Fireaway on the end of Pleasant Street, just up the road from Blackpool North station. It looked new like it hadn't been open long. A nice place and the owners were great. I think they lose a lot of customers though due to the drugged up psychos going in there hassling people for freebies and money.
Crackheads dont want pizza mate
Sad seeing blackpool, post covid.
I was only there 1 time for a week vacation with my niece, while i was home visiting family in glasgow, Scotland from Detroit, Michigan, US.
It's such a shame.
When we were there, stayed in one of the hotels on the waterfront, all inclusive .
Best times of our life's, we loved it.
Keep the videos rolling,
You've got a new sub watching from Detroit, Michigan.
Native from glasgow..❤
Before I came to live in Blackpool years ago I picked up a young hitch hiking student returning to Blackpool. He said I cannot wait to leave again. I've only come to see my Mum. I asked why the rush to leave. He replied unless you have money there is nothing for young people to do apart from be a nuisance to every one else and get yourself into trouble. That's why I left. That comment spoke and still speaks volumes having lived here myself now for many years.
I was in Blackpool last weekend, stayed in a Travelodge by the the football ground. Even on the front the buildings looked tatty but the streets were some of the cleanest I've seen. All the locals we met seemed freindly, Me and me mates are not into sports bars so we didn't have a lot of choice pub wise, but we did find a couple that had a nice freindly atmosphere. I've been in far worse places. Rhyl in North Wales used to be pretty grim, haven't been there for a while, so maybe its improved but somehow I doubt it. Great video by the way.
Best places to go for civilised drinks are the Winter Gardens and the Tower.
Rhyl is known as Scouse on Sea.
@@markcf83 So what's Liverpool called as it's also, you know, on sea?
I know this travelodge your talking about one of better modern ones in a relatively okay area near to the football stadium but also if you venture on to Lytham Road South shire near St Peters Church huge poverty there and fairly scary om a nighttime although saying that its like ibsaid same all over England now its to me been mostly caused by right wing tory capital system and ideology same as usa and also modern day femism and breakdown of relationships and respect and drugs and greed and lies and absolute corruption from the top down of so called uk society
For example as i write this the freak who was unelected as prime minister is now planning to blame disabled for all there crimes and lies and illegal wars he knows he can get tax cuts by axing there pittance and throwing thse people on to streets this like everything else will be conditioned and then accepted even by tory party B new tory new dull starmer later thus year amd then like everything else Iraq and Afghanistan and all other lies it will all be forgotten and everyone will move on to latest episode of coronation Street and East enders I'm being sarcastic but there is a huge truth to what I'm saying there is a new disease in England and Western countries uk and usa and places like this its called apathy and corruption and lack of care and respect and love
Also the women in England are now in my opinion taking over more than men they often talk about there rights and harassment etc but often I've now noticed quality of English ladies wven when attractive in appearance has dropped compared to European women and none eu women same probably as well for women in terms of there choices but often I'm not thr only one now to say this there all robots all arrogant and narcissistic and totally often self consumed and don't smile or act like there doing you q favour even if they do speak to you etc
Many covered in tattoos from head to toe and in abusive relationships and wearing chsv clothes and slippers on streets and pajamas down streets take drugs and smoke those vapes don't often even look where there going and have little to no manners
I last visited Blackpool about 5 years ago and was shocked. The promenade was heaving with tourists but they were constantly pestered by "traders" selling flashing toys, balloons, hats, cheap rubbish toys. Then the horse and carriage riders were charging up and down the road. We saw horses slipping, falling banging into other carriages, cars doing emergency stops due to reckless disregard for the highway code by the carriage operators. It was pandemonium. Then we decided to buy passes for Tusauds, the tower, dungeon, pleasure beach and sea life. And it was extortionate. Ended up not going to Tusauds, dungeon or sealife. Couldn't afford it. We could've gone to Spain for less money, same chaotic atmosphere but with better weather.
Yup.....you can probs put up all of that if the weather is really nice! 🤣
£33 for 3 events (Tower *Sealife *tusauds) how much would you rather it be? Start collecting the sun you might get a better deal for £9.99🙄
In another country the pestering traders would be called 'hawkers.' Same thing by the sound of it..😂
Yep seems very reasonable to me seeing as i bought a foot long ham sandwich in subways other day that cost £7.20@@jadewoodhouse47
@@Daddylongneck371 that's what I mean 🤣🤣 people want kids u18 to be free these days 🤣 edit: I live in blackpool and never once seen a horse slip or fall or crash into others shame these videos of blackpool are just showing the rough parts like every town and city has... show some of the nice stuff in blackpool and stop leaving a sour taste on everyone mouth...the edit isn't directed at you don't worry 😅 bufordTJustice304
Great videos. Burger for £1 was featured on ‘Rate my Take away.
It seemed to be rated fairly well.
Yeh it supposed to be half decent!
Nice video. I was last in Blackpool in 2011, and I quite enjoyed it. It's a shame to see it's gone downhill since then. Is the Coral Island Arcade still open?
I picked my young son up from a kids' party somewhere a couple of blocks back from the Promenade and right outside the venue was a scrawny old bloke locked in a contorted posture to a traffic pole like a dried up prune, two of those community wombles scratching their heads, wondering what to do. Not nice for a kiddy to see. Blackpool has always been a dump, it's just a bigger dump now.
🤣🤣🤣 jeeez. Typical weekend that!
Blocks ????😂😂
Community Wombles 😂 apt 👏🏻
you will soon be old
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Jesus mate I lived there 96 to 99 God how its changed I in fact used to work Yates South Shore. Anyway new subscriber... Keep up the good work.
Bug change since those times mate! Cheers pal. Appreciate it
About 20 years ago one bank holiday all the b and bs were full me and my mate managed to get one small spare room in a pub. It was 10 pounds each for the night and the bed was a sheet of hardboard with a bare mattress balanced on top of four catering sized baked bean tins. Had a great weekend even managed to coax a couple of Barnsley birds back to our boudoir for a night of romance and one of them pissed the bed. Only in Blackpool can you get that for such a reasonable price. 😆
🤣🤣🤣 typical Blackpool night out that
Who in their right mind wud stay somewhere for a tenner?! Gross!!
Well your mother and father obviousley did when they conceived you@@lolabelle4959
your mother was in the room with us@@lolabelle4959
When its a choice between that or the car what you do you miserable twat ???@@lolabelle4959
Thats mad, the vibe at the end with the quiet streets but inside the pubs are busy, seems everyone in Blackpool is inside the pub!!
Last time I had a holiday in Blackpool was in the 1980s. It was nowhere near that bad, but it looks like things have really gone downhill since. I remember Yates and also the Fun House, but I gather it burned down in 1991. I can't say I'll be going back to Blackpool in a hurry.
Less family go now that's the thing. Not much catered for kids as much as it was
England used to be a proud county, everything tidy. We noticed the rot setting in during the early 2000's when we visited on holidays. 😢
Too many non-English are ruining it and turning the UK into exactly like the country where they came from. They dump furniture in the street and dump rubbish in lay-bys. No respect for this country.
Your 100% correct-- agree with ya 🤝
@@jameshickey1294mass migration
Yep they treat Britain like there home country
Agreed on tidyness, people just don't respect the place and chuck litter all about.
Places like Blackpool were doomed when you could book a week in sunny Spain or Turkey for a few hundred quid.
I was 23 yo when I went to Blackpool for the first time and 25 when I went the last time! I lived in Huddersfield at the time and it was an easy day out. So glad we never left the promenade. What an absolute disgrace of a town Blackpool is!
😂 hudders
Been going there the last 12 years first weekend in October some parts have gone down hill like lot of seaside resorts we always have a great time the people of Blackpool always make you feel welcome looking forward to going back
That £1 burger fella buggers off to America for a few months during Blackpools winter months!... Can't be doing too bad can he!?
No wonder he was shut!.....must fly out them burgers!!!
He works 12 hour days deserves a break
He's all over You Tube. Makes money from the slot machines in his 'restaurant'.
Who the hell would eat a £1 burger - I don't even want to know what is in it
@Catamarang-lo8re The same people who want to go to Blackpool 😂
Blackpool used to be great, was there in 1975 Sep weekend, used to be the place to go for all of Scotland I think, to see the lights, I remember " Yates Wine Lodge" It was a classy joint always busy.
My 4th birthday in 23rd September. Feel on the September weekend. Went to Blackpool for it. We had a great time with my husband and daughter and other family members. Went back down a couple of years later. We could not believe the state of the place. We could not wait to get back into our car and get back hame.
40th not 4th lol
Thanks for showing us around, I was last in Blackpool in 2003 on holiday there from Perth Australia (visiting relatives in Liverpool) went to Blackpool for the illuminations, saw the Movie Apollo 13 in the one of the cinema's to pass time waiting for darkness to fall.. did the amusement arcades and Madam Tussades.. I see it looks much different now.. but at least i still have me memories.. (for now) :) Cheers.
Hello honest places new subscriber to your channel. I absolutely love the UK East Anglia Blackpool I’m fascinated by those areas never been there myself. I am a retired disabled garbage man, living in northern California watch a lot of CZcams love your channel buddy going to catch up on the old videos, and just wanted to say thank you for your hard work and I have a new subscriber, thank you my friend🙏💙💯🇺🇸
Holidayed twice a year as a kid 60-80s. Stopped in Crystal Road. The landlady ruled with a rod of iron. Blackpool was so magical as a kid and always hated going home to Coventry. Live in Dorset now. Talk about chalk and cheese.
Yeh. Dorset from where i've been is half decent
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I live in Coventry now, love dorset
A few years back before the pandemic we were thinking of getting a b n b or even a pub(owned, not lease hold) in Blackpool, but we spent a good few weeks there on reconnaissance from St Anne's end to Fleetwood and dismissed that idea. Looked like we made a good decision.
If you ever want to invest in somewhere then go there for at least a month or two, you get a better feel and picture than profit sheets, reviews etc as all can be manipulated to sell !
Good advice that! Always gotta do yohr research!
Absolute suicide buying a freehold in Blackpool !
@@mooncat.787 Yes, and a lot of other places too.
Used to love going to Blackpool with the lads on the drink, had many a good time in crazy Scott’s kareoke that you walked past. It’s really gone down hill in recent years 😢
It is quite a few years back now, when my wife and I attended the Baptist assembly in Blackpool. We and several other people went out to walk the back streets armed with cake bars and some blank cards.
We were offering cake and an opportunity for people to make a prayer request on a card.
This went well, with more people wanting prayer requests, than cake.
Then we spotted a handbag on the path. We picked it up and it looked like it still had all its contents. So next stop was to find the police station. We asked the people we met, (still handing out cake bars and taking prayer requests) and eventually got there, where we reported finding the bag, and offered cake and received prayer requests.
We were a bit late back as a result of all this, but with a story to tell.
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Sounds great. Would you care to share the story?
@@martinworld7214but what colour was the bag? I don’t really want to know but I thought it may make the story better….
You could at least describe the type of cake you were handing out. Kipling?
The "witty" replies to your brief story, are made by the sort of people, who have made this country go to the dumps.
Not been since 2008, used to like sitting in the pub inside choral island having a few pints and another outside the big bar end of north pier, great atmosphere in the summer if you like that kind of thing.
I did that. People watch at coral island 🤣
Las Vegas of the North, you're having a laugh😂😂
Nearly just as good 🤣
Trash vegas 😂
Have you seen Las Vegas away from the strip?
I have.... nothing compared with the scum hole of Europe....@@briwire138
@@briwire138 i have.....was a kid though, love to go back!
I’ve just found your channel and I just say, fair play to you I’ve seen a couple of videos and I think I’m going to watch a lot more. Keep up the good work man. Ps, just out of interest, what town/city do you hail from and where do you live now?…..
Cheers pal. Just outside huddersfield mate
@@honestplaces Nice one, a very good mate of mine is a Town/Giants fan. I’m a Wigan Warriors fan living in Tipperary, Ireland. 💙❤️🫶👍
Grew up in Manchester and occasionally we'd go for the day or on my dads work trips when he worked at ciba geigy! It was so much fun, so exciting! I would only want to remember it as a child in the 60s/70s. A lot of Britain looks like this now, sad and jaded, poverty and addiction playing a huge part of it. Don't knock it, remember it how it was!
I was there with the wife and kids for a few days in the summer 2019. We enjoyed it but did see some of the back streets, they were an eye opener. Was there with a mate many years ago, had car trouble so stopped off on a Sunday night in February. Went out for food, found a nice Italian then found a busy bar that looked nice. We had one drink then left at the advice of the barman, he said it was really a locals only pub and a pair of Scots might find ourselves in trouble even though we were both over 6ft and well built. We headed back to our hotel, got up the next morning to find all four tyres on the car slashed.
Jesus! That is shocking! Nowt worse than doing someone's car in! Getting kicked out aswel! What a joke!
What an absolute dive.
Wow, you came up with that conclusion based on one man's skewed view of Blackpool?
I remember going to Blackpool on spec one bank holiday in the 70s and there wasn’t a room to be had; we ended up sleeping in the car. How times have changed.
60s and 70s were the golden years. Then gradually everyone started flying to places like Spain and Greece..😂😮
As an Irishman I've always had a notion in the back of my mind to take the short hop across the Irish Sea to visit Blackpool ... I'd no idea that it had got this rundown and won't be visiting now.
Ive had a couple of good times in blackpool back in the 70's/80's but by heck it looks rough now, i remember about 8/10 years ago my old workmates went there for the weekend and the darts tournaments, anyway one night on the lash one of them took a right kicking as he was pissed and trying it on with a local woman, jeez he was in a right mess and ended up in a&e, he was 55 y/o at the time, it happens in spain to, had 2 mates attacked and phone stolen plus cash, be aware,....
Yeh you gotta be aware in certain places. Abroad with typical uk tourist! Few places in the UK where it's best to be in a group
Have you ever considered getting mates that are not morons?
Mates and “ work mates” different things, and I didn’t go on these jollies with them,.
Plenty of betting shops for all the gambling addicts who have been addicted since childhood because of the arcades. Sad times but most seaside towns are like this now. You should do Margate. Cheers
What is margate like?
@@honestplacesIt's nice if you like heroin.
As bad as Blackpool lol@@honestplaces
@@pooooornopigeon 🤣🤣 brilliant lol
The old town is okay but the rest is a shithole especially Cliftonville
Go to the pigeon weekend, We stay in Fleetwood and come in on tne tram. Then go straight back to Fleetwood or Cleveleys.
Blackpool has gone. What caused it.
When I stayed in Blackpool for a week,went to cinema, seen a few shows, watched the Blackpool circus show, few meals out,hotel Tiffany's had different entertainment on, there's a brilliant motown pub on a corner street,
It’s all kicking off in Blackpool !!!
Always is!
Blackpool is an absolute mess, even the Pleasure Beach which is the main draw is outdated and frankly falling apart, even the illuminations are dire compared to back in the day, definitely needs a massive overhaul and large investments for the whole area.
Yeh agree with the pleasure beach....seen way better days. Aint been the lights in years!
And I bet you have never visited the pleasure beach haha
@@Pixieheartxxx well i have been plenty of times. This i a review of the town not the pleasure beach....and it is still closed anyway
Visit Blackpool any evening during the illuminations and you'll see how popular it still is. Still gets very busy so some people must still like it. Who even is this moaning man.
@colleenwright9015 exactly it was absolutely rammed last year lol.
I lived in Blackpool from 1958 until my job moved me away in the late60's.back then it was a wonderful place to live and have many fond memories of the area particularly as a pre teen and teenager. As a resident I rarely went anywhere near the promenade and lived in a residential part of south shore. I am saddened to see what it has now become
The amount of people who are shocked is mental. Our country has been in constant decline, leaving europe has shafted us yet people act all shocked at the state of things as if they didn't have a clue about the curreht downfall of the majority of our towns.
They asked 1000 migrants if they wanted to live there and they refused 😂
If only that were true - the town is packed with them.
I'd rather be in Afghanistan.... no contest.
@@coastliner5848only people like you could blame immigrants for the mess it’s in 😂
It’s crawling with economical migrants. Not safe for anyone especially ladies.
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Same as Gt Yarmouth, looks good on the front but side streets looks like Beirut
Well, i've added that to my filming list 🤣
That’s Walk With Me Tim territory
On a brighter note, it seems not many people who look like they are from Beirut are walking the streets of Blackpool ;)
I went for a day trip in 2022 and 2023 and little children were ordering their parents around right, left and centre, it was like a scene from the film 1984. The stag and hens don't need to go to Blackpool anymore either.
Im kind of charmed by how chavy crackpool is. Something aint right in my head😂.
Same mate 🤣
I was in Blackpool last month for the racing pigeon weekend, it was excellent and we stay in the best b&b in Blackpool.
....what b&b was that?
That's not car, it's a van. You can tell it's a van because it's a van.
Thats a useful tip.
I’ve put all the evidence together and have to agree ITS A VAN
I remember doing a portion of the dry lining on the top floor of the big blue hotel next to the big one. On my dinners i would take short walks around the local area and its shocking how run down it is when you venture behind the main front of blackpool.
A week in good weather, pleasure beach, madam tussuads, coral island, sea life centre, day at the beach, stanley park, zoo, herons reach golf and spa, activities at caravan parks, swimming pool down the front. Activities on the piers, night entertaiment at pleasure beach and or tower. Blackpool tower. Shopping in centre or day trip to clevelys and fleetwood. Lots to do if you stay away from the darkside. Shame lytham road isnt what it used to be though.
Went there 10 years ago and it took me all day to find a clean B- B ended up in an over charged piss infested matress cobwebs , stinking curtains carpet and a kids size luke warm crap breakfast. What a shit-hole . Not to mention the shower - toilet stink pitt.
Yeh alot of the b&b's have seen better days
Don't they have any Holiday inn type places
But apart from that you had a great time!
Too true, what happened to the good old landlady in a Blackpool B&B
Who treated you better than her own family .
😂😂😂😂
Only 4 out of 5 then?
So this is what Hell looks like.........
This is what your country looks like when it has been used by third parties for their best interests and now we are a shell with huge debts whilst being invaded.
We stopped in Blackpool on way back down south from the Lake District for one day/night about 6wks ago. We went in that pub with the karaoke and that woman at the door was smoking there when I went and the woman singing was also singing lol… locked in Groundhog Day that place.
My grans ashes are scattered on the beach as she loved it (back in the day) with where family so we done the pilgrimage but I can’t see me ever going back.
Were did you get your smp done mate looks good
Hairline inc chester
@honestplaces how many sessions and name of artist please
There is a bloke called Mark Evans from Scotland who claims to be a auditor is draging Blackpool down he is very friendly with the police not a good advert for the town.
Don't think blackpool needs an auditor 🤣
Get back to work.
My Nana lived there, and I spent summers in the late 60s and early 70s there. Loved it at the time but fuck, its a depressing place.
Different era back then. Everywhere has changed....but Blackpool seems to be stuck in the past with the magic gone!
I grew up in Blackpool , had both of my children there too and left 20 years ago. I lived in South shore where you started your video and it was an amazing place to live. I'm absolutely disgusted with how this place has been left to decay over the years in fact it's heartbreaking to see such a vibrant town turn into a squalid hole. The council have spent ridiculous amounts of money on the town center promenade and let the rest of the town fall apart. Shame on you , they should be made accountable for this mess . South shore was always a place to go shopping and have fun my children loved living there, now it is a dump buildings left that haven't been touched in over 20 years. So sad 😢
And you based that on 3 minutes of video. I live near the Solaris centre and it is lovely.
Some of those so called abandoned hotels are not actually abandoned. Some are earmarked for demolition as there is a lot of new hotel and residential redevelopment going on.
Bond Street has had it's day just like many out of main town shopping areas. Unfortunately it's the owners of these now vacant, derelict once thriving shops etc. that have abandoned them. It's a mammoth task to even identify who is responsible for these properties let alone insist they sort them out.
Lived there in 1990 on Hornby road blimey it's gone down hill a lot since then, very sad to see 😔
British seaside resort's declined when the easyjet & Ryanair started cheap flights to the continent. It can cheaper to go Amsterdam or Ibiza for a weekend now than it is to stay in the UK
100%
This is what killed the sea side
I went there with family for the Pleaseure Beach last summer! Then 1 hour on the Beach ⛱ and exit. Parked the car next to Blackpool FC. Just walking to and from the car was so sad to see. Ghost town!! 👻 😱
Was it beach weather?
I went to Blackpool for 5 days last year and stayed in the blue hotel near the Pepsi max. I ended up just getting hammered just to pass the time. I still love it though because of memories as a child, I’m 45 this year and it still holds a tiny bit of that childlike wonder.
I went for the weekend last year with the missus & kids & had a lovely time at the water park that’s on the seafront & at the pleasure beach. We’ll be going back for the air show this year.
If you stay on the front you're fine
Blackpool is a seasonal holiday place go back in July, the place comes alive. The back streets in any seaside town look a little dismal in February. As for the boarded up buildings, some no all will have a makeover for the summer.
Hmmmm i went last summer and they were boarded up then. I get the seasonal bit, but still it is a fly tip mess, which would only get worse in the summer. People need to respect the areas, some people are grim
dream on
Yeah right 😂
deluded
The Council have promised to install hatches at regular intervals, so that a boxing glove can come flying out and give people cauliflower ears.
This made me laugh out loud 😂 well done !
I was in Preston the other week on work and actually considered doing the half hour drive along to Blackpool for a mooch. Glad I didn't now 😂
We've been trying to decide on which country to visit for vacation and England has pretty much checked it's own self off the list.😄😄😄
The "As seen on TV" was some low rate fly on the wall programme on Channel 5 called Blackpool Lights like 15 year ago. Heh
100% 🤣
I think it was from a BBC Three tv show called Funland which aired from 23rd of October to 7th of November 2005 lasted 11 episodes had a star studded cast
@@leesnowdon9009 No it's from the fly on the wall documentary series called Blackpool Lights which aired on Channel 5. There are some episodes here on CZcams.
@@ThatLeeNoble thanks for the correction, I remembered that Funland was set in Blackpool as I downloaded it years ago
Sadly the money always stays down South , having said this Bournemouth is a bit of a dump these days with serious drug issues.
Truth
That's not true. York is drowning in tourist money. Blackpool is just a shit hole that's too far gone to save. It would be too expensive to demolish it all and re-build it. Despite what they've tried to do to the seafront it's still a shit hole.
I lived there for 6 months and my mental health really took a dive. I moved back to my Dad's, regrouped and then moved to Spain. Thanks Blackpool for pushing me over the edge.