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The Grundy is an art gallery located in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Its eclectic programme consists of regional historic to recent contemporary art exhibitions. Opened in 1911, it is owned and operated by Blackpool Council. It is a Grade II listed Edwardian building. [1] Together with the adjoining Central library it was listed on 20 ...
Blackpool (UK Parliament constituency) Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad; Blackpool & Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool BC; Blackpool Electric Tramway Company; 1962 Blackpool North by-election; Blackpool shipwrecks; British NorthWest Airlines
Stanley Holloway’s 1932 comic song The Lion and Albert tells the story of a small child being eaten by a lion at Blackpool Zoo and George Formby, one of the town's most successful regular performers in the 1930s and ‘40s, penned songs including Blackpool Prom, Sitting on the Top of Blackpool Tower and With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock ...
Bar 2012 and 2020, “Blackpool week” has been a Strictly staple since, creating some of the show’s most memorable moments, from Danny Mac and Oti Mabuse’s slick Charleston to “Puttin ...
This is a list of people from Blackpool. Blackpool is a seaside town and unitary authority in Lancashire , in the North West England . Academia and research
The Winter Gardens is a large entertainment complex in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, which includes a theatre, ballroom and conference facilities. Opened in 1878, it is a Grade II* listed building, [1] operated by Blackpool Entertainment Company Limited [2] on behalf of Blackpool Council, which purchased the property from Leisure Parcs Ltd as part of a £40 million deal in 2010.
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]
Jean Robinson CBE JP (8 December 1899 – 5 November 1987) was the first female mayor of Blackpool, Lancashire, serving from 1968 to 1969, after having been a member of the town council for 14 years. Born in Ashton-under-Lyne , Robinson's mother died in 1907, and her father left in 1909, leaving the children to look after themselves.