Blackpool .....Just like the old days. - Page 2

flashy · 10-08-2009, 13:56

they do charge a fiver to get into the Pleasure beach now but you do get a couple of things for this charge, you get to go on the monorail and go around the maze and i think there is also something else you get free when you pay the entrance fee, its not like Southport where you got naff all for your entry fee

Doug · 10-08-2009, 14:26

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Originally Posted by grannyclaret

We went to the Air Show today,The Red Arrows were brilliant as always,,,,We only went as far as Bispham but it was heaving there too...lovely weather too

Did you see a good looking bloke in a nurses uniform?

cashman · 10-08-2009, 14:30

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Originally Posted by flashy

they do charge a fiver to get into the Pleasure beach now but you do get a couple of things for this charge, you get to go on the monorail and go around the maze and i think there is also something else you get free when you pay the entrance fee, its not like Southport where you got naff all for your entry fee

thats ok fer those that want to do these things shaz, mostly owd gits like me, just wanna have a walk around n a look, calling fer a brew n butty.

Doug · 10-08-2009, 14:37

We went up to the cliffs at Bispham, quite a few people up there as well drifting back and forth. I can’t understand how some people could walk away when the Arrows are up.

The weather was really good for a change, (its ****ing down today). With the Sun and the sea breeze I managed to get my face sunburnt which is still stinging particularly where I burnt my lip which as now split.

The display was short of a few RAF aircraft this year; it just shows how committed we are overseas. But what was there was excellent, Pride and Tears at the Lanc and her play mates and to see a Vulcan in the air again is fantastic.

cashman · 10-08-2009, 15:06

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Originally Posted by cashman

thats ok fer those that want to do these things shaz, mostly owd gits like me, just wanna have a walk around n a look, calling fer a brew n butty.

forgot to add usually have a couple of quid on slots or stalls also, so they lost that as well.

Barrie Yates · 10-08-2009, 15:31

Bought our first house there in '77 while still in the RAF - fantastic place to live. Left in
'03 when it was probably at it's lowest ebb. Town full of yobs, Hen and Stag parties staggering around before lunch time it really had become the pits. Went back for a few days just a few eeks ago - what a change I saw, most of it for the best - but the bomb site that was Yates's Wine Lodge and on the other corner from the Fleece and the new architecture on Birley St?, That saddened me. The other thing I missed were the fish & chip shops -Where have they all gone?
But nice to see it picking up again.

cashman · 10-08-2009, 15:56

lived there myself fer a few years, left 97, has certainly improved since then.

cherokee · 10-08-2009, 20:10

It is improving all the time. Certainly come along way since when we first moved here some years back.

I think for those that havent been in a while then its def worth a visit if only to see the Prom changes. Think Birley st and up by the winter gardens will be good when completed too.

The street lighting is quite impressive at night too in town.

Still got the hen and stags but no where near as bad as used to be since cameras went up through town . also heavily policed at weekends now.

IMO All changes for the better,

accyman · 12-08-2009, 23:17

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glad its pickin up, we stayed twice this year n really enjoyed it.

don't think it will ever be like the owd "Wakes Weeks" mel, cos no-one hardly could afford to go abroad then.

think a minus is the fact they now charge to go on pleasure beach, think will prevent families wi kids goin to a degree, twas the death knell fer southport when they did it wi pleasureland.

jesus christ they charge just for walking into the dump now

i know you have to pay to get into alton towers but it has a much better class of rides for starters and a lot cleaner infact beter value for money all round

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Buy a Pleasure Beach Pass for only £5 per person
Entitles you to enjoy the ambience of the park, ride on the Pleasure Beach Express, Chinese Puzzle Maze, South Beach Show and our new Spectacular Dancing Water Show

wow £5 to get a nostril full of fecis a walk around a decrepid maze and an oprtunity to watch a show you probably have no interest in anyway

great value NOT

they do a great job giving the promonade a face lift then teh pleasure beech puts people especialy families of going

greedy grabbing sods

flashy · 13-08-2009, 07:01

apparently when the woman who owns the 'pleasure beach' inhertied it, it was in her dads will that she couldnt sell it, so she changed the name to get around that from 'Blackpool Pleasure Beach' to 'Pleasure Beach Blackpool' now she can sell it whenever she wants

Restless · 13-08-2009, 07:31

mum had a trolley with the stuff for the day to have a good time in blackpool. Dinner, Drinks, Towels ETC they wouldnt let her on the pleasure beach... Think they thought she was a terrorist or something

accyman · 13-08-2009, 14:35

them metal detectors dont work and are practicaly useless

i walk through them every time without emptying my pockets and i have my cash, keys and mobile phone in my pockets simply because i cant be bothered tipping it all out for them

unless you walk through with a rocket launcher strapped to your shoulder i cant see teh security getting a hint yor up to no good lol