Thursday, November 11



Lovely piece in the Independent today bigging-up Blackpool. Last week it was The Times. And a new BBC drama starting tonight called 'Blackpool'. The White Stripes new movie is called 'Under the Blackpool Lights'. The Kings Of Leon will rock the beautiful Empress Ballroom in Blackpool just before christmas and the spellcnuts will eat their turkey dinner this year in the shadow of that tower.
Squeky voiced Emlyn Hughes started his career with The Seasiders.

Blackpool is the most searched-for British town on the internet.

More lottery winners choose Blackpool as their favourite British holiday destination than any other.

Each year, 10.5 million sticks of rock are sold.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach attracts six million visitors a year, making it Britain's top free attraction.

At the Pleasure Beach each season, 47 miles of hot dogs, a million ice-cream cones, 550,000 burgers, 2.5 million portions of chips and 500,000 sticks of candy floss are sold.

Two million postcards are sent from the town every year.

The world's largest mirrorball is here; 47,000 mirrors on a six-ton, 20ft sphere.

Friday is the donkeys' day off.



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The first three pictures are views from my office (we have North and South facing windows). I know these should have been added to a 'post a view from your office window' site that BW mentioned a few weeks ago but I've forgotten it. The next four pictures were taken during our last visit to Blackpool. The hunk in the bottom row is my Dad on his honeymoon and next to him is little old me being blown out of a deckchair, somewhere in Scotland, whilst reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

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