Interesting things about Blackpool. Number 7.

Irish Sea fog. The warm easter weather last week resulted in a thick pea-souper one morning. This is how the beach looked at 9am and this is how it looked at 11am when the sun rose and burned away the fog stuff. Another interesting thing (not worthy of an entry of it's own though) I noticed last week was this poster advertising Shaun Ryder appearing as a DJ at a top night-spot in town. Same place that had Massive Attack on in November (but we went to see Ken Dodd instead).
I just found this great pic from 1899 and there, in the background, is Roberts Oyster Rooms! (see below). Crikey! that's the Clifton Hotel in the background too (we stayed at the Clifton in 2002, expensive and over-rated).
The Abingdon Street indoor market is great. A hanger type building with a high ceiling and exposed steel work and industrial glass roof. A classic array of stalls selling everything from dog beds to broken biscuits. The bag stall has this classic lamp lighting its wares and these non-factory produced cakes on the cake stall sell like hot cakes (shall I say cakes one more time? cakes).

Cakes.