Layton cemetery in Blackpool is gigantic. Really REALLY gigantic. It's a beautiful spot on a sunny day and my afternoon stroll among the dead was made even more pleasurable by the nearby Burton's biscuit factory baking their Maryland cookies and filling the air with such a sweet perfume. Among the 'famous' names buried here is Chicago engineer William Strickler who built the Big Dipper at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 1923 (and still thrilling us today) and Dave Morris, the Blackpool comedian who created a BBC radio show in the 1950's set in a fictitious Northern working mens club called 'Club Night' which influenced Peter Kay to create Phoenix Nights.

The very sexy station for the Big Dipper