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  2. File:Blackpool , Promenade A584 - geograph.org.uk - 4205715.jpg

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  3. Golden Mile (Blackpool) - Wikipedia

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    One of the Golden Mile's key features until the 1960s would become sideshows. [3] In 1889 The Gazette wrote: “If the front land is covered with howling cheap-jacks, swindling catchpenny trickeries etc., while the shops behind are let for two-headed giantesses, fat women, penny-in-the-slot indecencies etc., then what a disreputable pandemonium will Central Beach eventually become!” [1]

  4. North Pier, Blackpool - Wikipedia

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    North Pier is the most northerly of the three coastal piers in Blackpool, England.Built in the 1860s, it is also the oldest and longest of the three. Although originally intended only as a promenade, competition forced the pier to widen its attractions to include theatres and bars.

  5. Central Pier, Blackpool - Wikipedia

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    Central Pier, Blackpool (Feb. 2006) (South Pier is in distance) The pier is central in that it is located between the other two, but it was close to the site of the now-defunct Blackpool Central railway station about 550 yards south of Blackpool Tower. Since the coastline is very straight and flat, the pier simply extends at right angles to the ...

  6. Blackpool - Wikipedia

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    South Shore (renamed Lytham Road 1903, closed 1916) Blackpool once had two railway terminals with a total of over 30 platforms, mainly used by excursion traffic in the summer. Blackpool Central, close to Blackpool Tower, was closed in 1964, while Blackpool North was largely demolished and rebuilt as a smaller facility. The route of the former ...

  7. South Pier, Blackpool - Wikipedia

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    The Blackpool South Shore Pier & Pavilion Co. Ltd. was registered in November 1890 and work began to build the pier in 1892. It was constructed, at a total cost of £50,000, using a different method than that used for North and Central piers, the Worthington Screwpile System, by the company owned by Alderman James Heyes, a twice major of Blackpool.

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  9. South Shore, Blackpool - Wikipedia

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    Blackpool Pleasure Beach and illuminations on South Promenade Several major tourist attractions can be found in South Shore including Blackpool Pleasure Beach , which was founded in 1896 in an area populated by Romani Gypsies , [ 60 ] including members of the Boswell family , [ 61 ] one of England's largest and most important Gypsy families ...