Blackpool horses to have nappies

[MargaretR]

BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Nappy plan for Blackpool horses

What good news, and the contents of the bins can be used on council floral displays.

Now then --why can't dog owners use dog nappies? - (they are manufactured)

Better than a £50 fine

[WillowTheWhisp]

Hmm - can't help wondering how silly these are going to look.

I remember my Dad dashing out with a bucket and shovel when a horse had done it's business in the street. He would put it on the roses!

[entwisi]

Even now if my mum sees a pile of horse muck on teh street near her house she goes home for a bucket!

[Doug]

What a heap of ****e, These’s idiots on Blackpool Borough Council are a complete bunch of ******* who’s consistency in making the people of the borough sick to the back teeth is beyond common understanding. More wasted money, more humiliation. Idiots……

I can’t understand why there should be an issue with the horse muck; during an average week you can find along the sea front from Talbot Road to Foxhall; sand, dog ****e, Human Blood, human excrement, Urine, vomit, used condoms, beer can’s, broken bottles, chip papers and common litter, more vomit, idiots lying in the gutter, poor public planning and hideous buildings. Get a Grip Blackpool. It’s a ****hole and it’s now’t to do with Horse crap……..

[Mick]

Thought you would like to see what they will look like

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Doug

What a heap of ****e, These’s idiots on Blackpool Borough Council are a complete bunch of ******* who’s consistency in making the people of the borough sick to the back teeth is beyond common understanding. More wasted money, more humiliation. Idiots……

I can’t understand why there should be an issue with the horse muck; during an average week you can find along the sea front from Talbot Road to Foxhall; sand, dog ****e, Human Blood, human excrement, Urine, vomit, used condoms, beer can’s, broken bottles, chip papers and common litter, more vomit, idiots lying in the gutter, poor public planning and hideous buildings. Get a Grip Blackpool. It’s a ****hole and it’s now’t to do with Horse crap……..

You are there so I suppose you know best. Removing horse muck from the streets is a small (and the easiest) start in the big clean up which is needed.

[emamum]

that is sooo funny, horse nappies. who has to change the nappies? i know how bad babies nappies can be this must be much worse...

I do think that there should be sanitary towels for dogs... but nappies? lmao....

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by emamum23

that is sooo funny, horse nappies. who has to change the nappies? i know how bad babies nappies can be this must be much worse...

I do think that there should be sanitary towels for dogs... but nappies? lmao....

The horse nappies will be emptied into bins by the driver of the landau (thats what the attached passenger vehicle is called). They can be washed out, as can some of the types produced for dogs. Disposable types are also manufactured (as they are for babies).

Excrement on our streets and public places from animals (and humans) is uncivilised and a risk to public health

[grannyclaret]

So that is where my council tax is going, i would rather them clean the back streets,, ours is disgusting ,we now have got fantom fly tippers outside an empty shop to join the louts who leave beer cans everywhere
ITS THE DIRTY DOG OWNERS WHO SHOULD BE PUT IN NAPPIES,,, not the dogs or the horses

[WillowTheWhisp]

I'm sure it would be easier to shovel it up off the street than have these silly looking nappies.

[MargaretR]

I visited Blackpool very often as a child because my great aunt had a boarding house at Bispham. I remember it in its heyday when the millworkers (my mum and dad both worked in cotton mills) descended on Blackpool en masse at 'wakes weeks'.

It never was what could be described as 'classy' but it wasn't 'tatty', which is how I would describe it now. There always were hats with 'kiss me quick', but no phallic shaped souveniers or blow up dolls on display outside shops.

Every few weeks I travel on the local coast bus which goes through Blackpool, Bispham, Cleveleys, and Fleetwood. I never get off in Blackpool - driving through it and viewing the garish tatty buildings on the 'golden mile', and the seedyness of the shops and properties on the roads away from the front, is enough for me to stay on the bus to towns such as yours, Granny, which do give a better impression- Cleveleys. The works in progress on the promenade there look impressive and should attract more regular visitors (including me) next summer.
Blackpool has not taken the trouble to attract the elderly population, which could be their main source of visitors. Instead it has linked its survival to shabby night clubs attracting stag and hen parties, and to gambling arcades with garish frontages.

The reason I say that 'attract the oldies' is the way to go, is that they are the ones who are able to visit all year round, and are less inclined to pine for the sun of the Med. We oldies just require clean hotels with good basic meals and some nightly entertainment in a place where a leisurely walk on the promenade before breakfast or to watch the sunset on the sea after dinner, will not be spoilt by the night club dross of society.

I appreciate that young families are attracted by the Pleasure Beach. That is well south of the town and any entertainment venues for them could be centred there, leaving the centre and north of the resort to develop a better image to attract the older generation.

I have visited Eastbourne and LLandudno which survive without the 'tat', and are ideal venues for the oldies because of the lack of hills - Blackpool could be the same.

(I would appreciate the feedback of Doug and Granny who live there)

[WillowTheWhisp]

I agree Margaret. Maybe they should clean up some of the lewdness and vulgarity first.

[BERNADETTE]

When I went to Blackpool in June I was quite shocked at how neglected the town appeared. Walking on the front was quite an eye opener with very few shops open and having to walk a fair way to find a decent cafe where we could get something decent to eat. What did occur to me was how somebody who wasn't as mobile would find it difficult to walk as far as we did. Having said that we had a good day out and Ian's sister got to relive her youth.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

I visited Blackpool very often as a child because my great aunt had a boarding house at Bispham. I remember it in its heyday when the millworkers (my mum and dad both worked in cotton mills) descended on Blackpool en masse at 'wakes weeks'.

It never was what could be described as 'classy' but it wasn't 'tatty', which is how I would describe it now. There always were hats with 'kiss me quick', but no phallic shaped souveniers or blow up dolls on display outside shops.

Every few weeks I travel on the local coast bus which goes through Blackpool, Bispham, Cleveleys, and Fleetwood. I never get off in Blackpool - driving through it and viewing the garish tatty buildings on the 'golden mile', and the seedyness of the shops and properties on the roads away from the front, is enough for me to stay on the bus to towns such as yours, Granny, which do give a better impression- Cleveleys. The works in progress on the promenade there look impressive and should attract more regular visitors (including me) next summer.
Blackpool has not taken the trouble to attract the elderly population, which could be their main source of visitors. Instead it has linked its survival to shabby night clubs attracting stag and hen parties, and to gambling arcades with garish frontages.

The reason I say that 'attract the oldies' is the way to go, is that they are the ones who are able to visit all year round, and are less inclined to pine for the sun of the Med. We oldies just require clean hotels with good basic meals and some nightly entertainment in a place where a leisurely walk on the promenade before breakfast or to watch the sunset on the sea after dinner, will not be spoilt by the night club dross of society.

I appreciate that young families are attracted by the Pleasure Beach. That is well south of the town and any entertainment venues for them could be centred there, leaving the centre and north of the resort to develop a better image to attract the older generation.

I have visited Eastbourne and LLandudno which survive without the 'tat', and are ideal venues for the oldies because of the lack of hills - Blackpool could be the same.

(I would appreciate the feedback of Doug and Granny who live there)

Kingston is a tourist town, tourism is our largest moneymaker. And it does seem to attract tourists who like the old buildings, the very clean lakeshore, the museums, Fort Henry (part of a UN world heritage site which includes the Fort, the harbor fortifications, and, of course, the Rideau Canal), the boat tours of the 1000 Islands. There are also fine restaurants (Chez Piggy in particular) and good pubs and clubs. The crowd that comes here does tend to fit your category. Another advantage is that the oldies who come here are usually well-heeled and they spend large. The closest tacky destination is Niagara Falls, and even that is not so bad. We don't have too many horses. There are some guys on Wolfe Island who have carriages for weddings and for the fall hay rides. But when they dump on the street, no one seems to be too offended.

I have to admit that I used to love Blackpool, esp. the donkey rides when I was a kid ... but I do think that a little tackiness goes along with being Blackpool. Altho' it does seem that it has become a tad too seedy.

[Bonnyboy]

I'm going to appear so flippin ignorant here but margaret mentioned "wakes weeks" I've not heard that term before, could someone tell me what they are/were please.