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Pages in category "History of Blackpool" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
As the BBC’s dance competition returns to the Tower Ballroom, Isobel Lewis explores the town’s dance history, and how ‘Blackpool Week’ became a ‘Strictly’ institution
Clarksons Travel Group was a pioneering package tour operator in the UK during the 1960s and early 1970s. Its founder, in 1959 as Clarksons Tours, a subsidiary of the long-established City firm of H. Clarkson shipbrokers, was Tom Gullick, a former flag lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
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 ...
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
On 1 March 1974, the ballroom was the venue for the opening concert of Queen's first ever headlining tour of the UK. [9] [10] [11] On 14 and 15 January 2017, the ballroom hosted a two-day tournament to crown the first-ever WWE United Kingdom Champion. [12] On 12 January 2019, it hosted NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool, the first-ever NXT UK TakeOver ...
The first of Blackpool's three piers to be built, it was known as The Blackpool Pier until the construction of Central Pier in 1868. It consists of a 1,405 feet (428 m) wooden deck supported by cast iron screw piles and columns. A jetty was added in 1874. [45] [46] Promenade Shelters, Queen's Promenade
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]