Blackpool Awakes: Lightpool Update

[@Mike-hg1fn]

Blackpool tower must have unknown powers, it always draws attention and sends out peace, I’d like to think that it is a beacon of hope and reward, you just have to respect it.

[@martinwebb1681]

Thanks Stephen. Best time of day early in the morning. I was walking in the local forest with my dog at 7.00am this morning, I love the early morning time.

[@shirleysmith1713]

I do remember when RNLI was near central pier & lost children’s centre too. Do agree with you about noisy motorbikes 😡. Thanks for showing Stephen 👍🏻☀️😀

[@Dave64track]

Thanks for the update showing us what things are like now after the storm. Lots of sand everywhere that's for sure it will take some cleaning up.

[@stevensmith7460]

Evening Stephen, thanks for the update, great idea for the metal detecting, should get a group of you's doing it. It would be great entertainment and a good laugh. Seen that video about north pier, hasn't half changed since then, thanks again, cheers.

[@Peter-i1f]

Evening Stephen there’s something about early morning, it’s unlike any other time of day. It seems to have a calming effect, thank you for getting up early and sharing it with us. Great video……….

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Best time of the day Peter

[@carolmurray5569]

Enjoyed the video Stephen😊😊

[@Peter-i1f]

It’s my favourite time also Stephen

[@RETROGAMER1984]

Love watching ya videos and love seeing the seagulls there my favourite birds

[@Thetraveller752]

Thanks for a great video Stephen, i always feel great after feeling crappy when i see the tower all lit uo, puts a smile on my face. Goid memories coming to Blackpool as a child with the family.. love the lightpool and the progector onto thw tower.......

[@PhilBurns-oc2vg]

I like the way you resurrect old memories about long gone features

[@adelemcclymont6790]

Thank you for sharing Stephen take care of yourself.

[@juliec70]

I was in blackpool yesterday had a lovely day , nice early walk about Stephen ty 😊

[@Gail-o3f]

Nice vidio thanks glad lightpool looking better hope hourse ok out you get home safe 😊

[@janobyrne2424]

Thanks for your informative video Stephen, missed the last one. Think the lights in the marquee were damaged can't see how they weren't with that wind. Laughed when you mentioned the lost children's tent my best mate spent most of her holidays in it! Wouldn't like the leccy bill for the Blackpool Tower.😊😊😊

[@HazelKitching]

Thanks for the video.Never been to Blackpool,so glad that you are okay,never seen so much sand.Hope the council clean it all up and return it to the beach.

[@andrewlester9110]

I was in blackpool sunday 20th to Wednesday and was in the tower on Tuesday and the lightpool display from marquee was in a room next to the entrance to the tower eye.

[@mildredschulz]

Hi Stephen , thank you for your morning walk around. there is still a lot off cleaning up to do all the sand every where. it won't be long before I come to England now. take care and I'll see you n your next video. Mildred. xxx

[@wendyjones2351]

Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as so glad that Blackpool has recovered from the storm the tower looks amazing love the light pool have a great day xx

[@georgesmellie8717]

Thanks again for the update on some of the Lightpool exhibits Stephen I'm looking forward to see the starlings murmurations when I'm in Blackpool in November and I'm hoping to get a calendar at either Chris's or Petes take care

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks George.

[@MaryMartin-k9h]

Thank you Stephen lovely early morning walk about. It’s my favourite time ❤of the

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Glad you enjoyed it Mary.

[@JoanFreeman-c2u]

I remember the lifeboat station and the lost children place, also at the side of the north pier there was a pub called the merry england bar which we used to frequent.

[@K1110.]

Excellent thanks for posting. 👍

[@hazelmanship7516]

Great early morning stroll Stephen,thanks,love your vlogs very informative,take care bye for now 😊x

[@neilwillson4824]

Good video as normal, read something on the visit Blackpool ( lightpool ) the light display in the marquee has been rebuilt on the fifth floor under the tower

[@marycalderbank8998]

Thank you Stephen, just love your videos, so informative, I've have learned so much from your videos, so brave of you to go out in that storm, our intrepid reporter.

[@Gary-h7q9d]

I recently visited Blackpool on the back of your review of the new'ish Holiday Inn. Oddly enough, I ended up in room 401 as well, where you can view the setting sun over the sea, a great view yes :D. And it was a nice room, really quiet as you said. Nice place. I could not find the £1 burger place, as Blackpool has an odd layout, so I ordered the calendar online. But the Lightpool was fun, and there were a lot of people on the promenade, lots of families which was a relief, no beer monsters haha, even up to 8-9pm enjoying the lights and illuminations. Thankfully it has been mild this October at times. I enjoyed it, so thanks for the inspiration and being a pleasant online guide to Blackpool. :)

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks for buying a calendar Gary. Maybe the Holiday Inn will put a blue plaque with my name on room 401 lol 😂

[@Gary-h7q9d]

​@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool You never know haha.

[@streetlife8461]

I think the Holiday Inn should jump on the commercial opportunity that they have there and advertise Room 401 as the Stephen Cheatley - Walk on the Wild Side room, complete with a brass engraved plaque on the door and Stephens photographs and a calendar on the walls ! lol I think it would be fully booked !

[@doomybear7389]

A nice early stroll along the prom and over the dune's of Blackpool Steve, Wind is the element that you can't see or hear it's the objects it passes over that vibrate and makes the noise Silent but Deadly, Prime example, you're in a lift with a mate and you're stood there silent with a big smile on your face and it's your mate banging the door trying to get out making the noise.

[@debshipard1664]

Noisy motor bikes, do my head in. 😂😂😂 Stephen comedy gold once again.

[@user-pw3tr1xg2x]

Thank you for the update Stephen.

[@davidbail944]

Enjoyed the early morning walk 👍

[@ireneroylance9472]

# the calm after the storm..😮

[@ramonwilliams5721]

Thanks for the video, oh I do miss our yearly holidays to Blackpool.Kind regards

[@outlaw4941]

Hi Stephen, just wanted to say thank you and I hope you hit 100k subscribers in future, keep it up 😊

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks. That would be great, as I'd get a plaque.

[@jayneshaw5247]

Great video ❤️👍Enjoyed the morning walk

[@dianemckill5708]

The long rectangular post looks like it's from one of the piers... I hope not... Thanks for another great information video the sea looks beautiful. Hope the horses got home ok.

[@jillscaramuzza8763]

Was in blackpool yesterday for the day

[@stevedevey3147]

Hi Stephen The, Chip Shop you just feartured on here, I went next door the next one called Lillys, the fish was absolutely gorgeous, cooked to order and I walked along Central Beach enjoying it last night

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks. I visited Lily's along with the MacMaster a while back.

[@juliewright-v3v]

thanks Stephen for another great video

[@wendyjesson978]

Great video thanks

[@traceybutler242]

They have moved the light display from the marquee to the fifth floor or the tower, I have been to see it tonight.

[@stefanmaslaczyk1259]

The Metropole is one of Blackpool’s oldest hotels and was originally called Bailey’s Hotel. One of my great grandmothers, Jenny Threlfall, worked there in her youth.

[@martinwalters9876]

Hi Stephen. Flux is now in the Blackpool Tower building 5th floor

[@MichelleMartin-ld6zg]

Hi Stephen happy Wednesday 23rd of October great video 📹 thanks for showing us round blackpool from Michelle in Nottingham 😊😅😂

[@judithwalsh7645]

Has the council not offered you a job yet Stephen. Walkabout Advisor. Good title for you, because they dont know whats really happening in Blackpool like you do.x

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks Judith.

[@bredaquirke7362]

Yes Steve, Flux Extended survived. It is in the Tower building. I've been to see it last night (23 Oct). It's in the bar that hosted the Elmir elephants earlier this summer. It is fantastic. I highly recommend going to see it. I am amazed that it survived a 10m high tide flood at 2am Monday morning as well as the wind, considering how delicate it looks. Spiro is still out of action. Since it's there for the duration of the Illuminations, wouldn't you think it would be more robust and able to stand up to the weather. Hopefully they will be able to repair Spiro. Luckily the baubles survived and my favourite Odyssey. It is Neuron that got badly damaged and have been taken away. The Aqualux Wall is another casualty of the storm. It was ment to be near the Tower building but they decided not to put it up. It was at Bickerstaff Square last year and on the Promenade the year before. A little further on from Somnius, at the North side of the Metropole Hotel, The World In Your Hands exhibit is situated. It also survived the storm. And so did the projection equipment, and everything else in front of the wind break. The Tower Projections and Tower light shows are very good. Blackpool Radio put on a great show last night. The Tower looks fantastic in your video Steve, pity it's not that lovely golden colour in the evenings. Thank you for another great video xxx

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks for all the info 🙏

[@bredaquirke7362]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool you're welcome Steve xxx

[@grahammalia6830]

Thanks for the video Stephen. I have seen the clip about North Pier I think you were referring to, on an old BBC documentary. When he described the front of North Pier as looking like "Newport Pagnell bl**dy services" 😂 How architecture changes over the years fascinates me. Some strange buildings were put up in the 60's and 70's. All the best fella 😎👍

[@TillysWorldd]

Stanley arms was an awesome pub in the 90s

[@johnrobertson8263]

Cheers Mate

[@markstramtrainbuscapades1729]

The North Pier thing was between the actor Colin Wellend and the North Pier Manager, about the modernisation of North Pier, which Wellend was against ("Like Newport bloody Pagnel services!), whilst the Manager enticed people to visit the Merry England bar and admire it's new artificial tree! It features in a compilation made for BBC4s Blackpool night from 2019, this being called "Blackpool On Film"

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks for the info. I might be able to find it now.

[@jayoneill1533]

Here’s an idea for a Walk On The Wild Side contest. Guess the number of chippies within the city limits of Blackpool. The winner receives a £1 burger. 🍔 😊

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

It is a good question.

[@davidhodgson4695]

I agree with you regarding noisy motorbikes and other loud vehicles. I live on the main road and 99% of the vehicles are fine but you get the odd noisy one no considration for the residents.

[@streetlife8461]

Hi Stephen - For whom the bell tolls lol. Those two guys you mentioned at 14.20 - were they wearing bowler hats and one was chubby and the other skinny as it wouldnt have been Laurel and Hardy would it on their UK tour and visit to Blackpool? lol. I Think they may have filmed the bar scene from Trail of the Lonesome Pine in the Bloom Bar and later left a framed photograph in the Albert and the Lion Wetherspoon's? lol 😂❤

[@cherylduval7115]

The shelter skelter fell because the weather n so did the 1 on the central pier

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

Top video sir ….Smithy

[@carbonsiliconnn]

It's a pity Water Wings by Bruce Williams didn't get blown away. Storm Ashley must also be on the payroll. Looked like the hoarding you get round a building site. Who from Blackpool Council commissioned that... and at what cost? Hideous AF!

[@davidclorley2991]

Hi Stephen. Visiting Blackpool for the next few days. If I bump into you would love to say hello. Your videos are great. Keep it up 👍

[@Liverpool-s5n]

By the way if Coyote Ugly Saloon is anything like the one in Liverpool, Bold Street, it has a wide bar for people to get up and dance on, which people do, and very entertaining

[@richardbarber8023]

I remember that market you started at being on fire due to a dodgy cigarette lighter on a stall I went to watch the might Rams (Derby County) take on Blackpool we won 3/1 that must of been a once in blue moon win for Derby lol I remember the old lifeboat house with it ramp in to sea with the d class boat in it that’s showing my age lol 😂

[@FILNAT2011]

Could you do an update around the police station ,law courts area, if the demolition is going ahead. I read the company behind the building works as gone into administration.

[@mikkdc]

The reason the sand piles up near the pier is probably because of the pier building facing directly those on the front, creating a wind tunnel effect. Also, have you heard about the Blackpool Central development!? It might not be going ahead now, so all those businesses and markets they shut down might have done so for nothing! Apparently, the company behind it - Nikal Ltd - is going bust and have to call in the administrators.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Might have to do a video on that.

[@neillewis82]

I'm hoping ro pick a calender up next weekend when we come down

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Great, thanks.

[@John-ue6ok]

GOOD LUCK WITH THE VIDEO IT'S BRILLIANT THANKS FOR THAT I 😅😮😊😅😮😢😮😅😊

[@carradalebear4446]

There's a Plastic Hardman who's as bright as a five watt bulb so definitely won't be part of the illuminations

[@SimonM-63]

Nice one, Stephen. I wonder how the prison toilets faired in the storm, probably sandblasted clean 😂👍

[@Just_Proudy07]

Does the Blackpool council remove sand??? The council in north Wales doesn't remove sand off the prom near where I live and cycling on dry sand dunes on the path is a nightmare 😂😂😂😂😂

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I saw them remove sand from the pavements in Scarborough.

[@zulfqarali905]

Hi Blackpool greatest sons well done you keep it up you are doing a great job and having fun making some brilliant videos superstar Ali Walsall west midlands england junction 10 m6 Walsall churckery up the walsall

[@kennymilsom]

With all that sand around. I wonder how the storm drains are holding up. Might get some flooding if it rains heavy.

[@JacobSedman-wn7ih]

Just an update Stephen I went to lightpool yesterday Thursday an I went in the tower and I found that flux that was in the marquee on the prom it was in a room on the fifth floor but they said yesterday Thursday was the last day of having it because it’s going today Friday because the room is being use for something else today Friday

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@JacobSedman-wn7ih Thanks for the info. I was thinking about going of Friday evening, but I guess I’ve missed it.

[@racheljohnson9687]

You'll have to pop into the tower building & ask them. Be interesting to find out what's happening to it 🤔

[@junelaw4162]

Evenin sad the tent is not going back yea the wind break could be extended not many people about I remember joey blower in there 😊 beer monsters been about 😂 till the next one 😊

[@RichyJVideos]

I'm going to fantasy island skegness fear island Sunday wooo

[@RichyJVideos]

the event is till 3rd November if anyone wants to know

[@topmandog1]

lightpool ends this weekend whats the point

[@sarahillingworth2718]

Met chris higgit the other day, hes a nice bloke 👍

[@barbarafowler6842]

Please subscribe, lets get Stephen to 65k for Christmas, he deserves it

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@barbarafowler6842 Thanks Barbara 🙏

[@emergencyequipmentplcrblx]

Check out the go cart track, its flooded!

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Back to being a boating pool!

[@irenemilligan3794]

Hi thanks for filming. Do you know when Viva is going to sort there live cam ? I love to tune into it.

[@davidhodgson4695]

Hi Stephen, Please may I ask when you 1st took an interest in photography and when you took it up professionally? Thank you

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@davidhodgson4695 Hi David. I first picked up my mum’s Kodak Instamatic when I was about six. I became a professional in 2018, though I was having images published in the years prior to that.

[@rachellevis9909]

😊

[@audreymcleod4076]

Anyone know if there is anything special on in Blackpool, I tried to get a few days away and my top 3 hotels are fully booked, and here I thought it would be quiet at this time of the year ?

[@JacobSedman-wn7ih]

I can’t find anything about it being in the tower anywhere

[@sarahillingworth2718]

Forgive me but i think of Charlie Manson when helter skelter is mentioned lol

[@northofthefylde3863]

flux extended Now it's in the tower on the 5th. That weird light thing you learn about in your video? today

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks. I searched and searched for information on that, but could not find any. How are visitors supposed to know where it is if I can't even find out?

[@bredaquirke7362]

​@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool There was a guy outside the Tower building last night, with Lightpool festival booklets telling people that thr Flux Extended exhibit is inside and two Tower building staff members inside telling us it's onbthe 5th floor. Xxx

[@stephendavenport1414]

Sh*t the bed again? Only reason I'd be up at 7.30 lol

[@jrsc01.]

too many trip-hazards line the prom now...

[@paulmaclachlan6960]

Hi Stephen , will you be paying a visit to Coyote ugly and filming it ?

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Unlikely, but you never know.

[@jamesjohnston9671]

Have you been to the showtime museum yet ?

[@heatherjoy479]

Hear lots off leaves blown in my gardern because off stom Ashley u has had sand is mild down hear my aircons still on cold air

[@DarrenGregg-j3e]

Hows your foot?😊

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@DarrenGregg-j3e The condition still exists.

[@mikey76710]

Stephen quick question is the comedian Jimmy clitheroe on the comedy carpet

[@Cockermadman]

No he's in a cemetry

[@mikey76710]

@@Cockermadman wow funny

[@stevensmith7460]

Got to be, the other reply was funny though, 😂😂

[@mikey76710]

Nearly died laughing

[@Cockermadman]

@@mikey76710 ,clitheroe did 😂

[@sydneyporter6332]

Very good from Stockport

[@MartinOwen-on3io]

Hey stephen why dont you show off your birthday hats what people bought you for your birthday people went out the way to do them for you even with your walk on wildside writing on .only fair you wear them in respect

[@PlasticGirl65]

What they need to do about the sand is make the asylum seekers clear it instead of just doing nothing because they're not allowed to have paid work until their case has been heard. There was a guy standing outside of the tower earlier telling people free light show inside so maybe it's the flux extended.

[@bredaquirke7362]

Yes, it's the Flux Extended on the 5th floor. Well worth going to see xxx

[@jazzjazz4595]

😊