I've had these pictures since our Easter holiday in Blackpool and kept forgetting to post them.
One thing that's always fascinated me is the old-fashioned faded glamour of seaside resorts - call it nostalgia, call it rose-tinted but I love the way places along the coastline have developed for pleasure over time.
If you're ever in Blackpool, make sure you visit the Tower Ballroom, it's free to enter - during the day you can get up close to the glorious artwork and spectacular architecture from the high balconies and in the evening you can share a pot of tea or a pint on the dance floor.
You can't really imagine anything like it being built today!
I'd love to visit Blackpool one day. I've seen the mini-series with David Tennant and it looks so lovely. Love the people dancing in the last photo!
ReplyDeleteSo do I! There were only a few couples dancing and most of the them were older people - it kind of suited the 'faded glamour' theme!
DeleteBlackpool is fabulous, a lot of people think it's terrible and yes, there are bits of it that are run down and left derelict but it's still a nostalgic seaside resort with plenty of good bits :-)
Blackpool is definately very good at one thing - and that's good old fashioned fun :-) x