BLACKPOOL: It Got Worse the Longer I Stayed

[@Randi-Rabbit]

Used to go here once a year for my "Holiday" with my parents (We grew up on a council estate in Salford, Eccles in the 80s) Was a highlight for me as a kid, loved it, don't care what it is now, will always be a place I hold endearment for, no matter how nasty it is.

[@M......0161]

Respect

[@feraiivie]

Like going to Butlins for the week tbh

[@ThomasShelby-to7oy]

Yeah no matter how much of a hole it becomes, it will always have that nostalgia about it, same with Rhyl. Not St Ives but the happy memories remain.

[@M......0161]

@ThomasShelby-to7oy totally agree ..Towyn is for Me I love the place Am of there for a week in August can't wait 🙌

[@Ruffmushbadboy]

My nan owned a hotel near the pleasure beach and Visiting her was a highlight of my childhood rip Nan

[@charliebowman2891]

It's people who are the problem, not places. Poor does not need to equal low or no standards whatsoever.

[@top5tings]

The problem escalates when everyone flees and all that's left is dreggs of society the UK in the last 25 years has been brit selling up and moving abroad or the countryside

[@TKro21]

The threat of being sent to Blackpool could end illegal migration

[@benh5093]

The illegals have got it pretty good there- I walked into one of the hotels looking to book a room.when I got accidentally locked out of mine. Decent enough hotel but the inhabitants were rough as assholes.

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

lol!

[@M......0161]

😂😂😂😂

[@josephthompson1318]

Had few become BLP is a, unitary authorty, & quickly banned any more

[@user-fg5fh9ps5u]

Stop it the town is having a £150 million upgrade

[@hilarylillie5369]

Shocked how run down Blackpool is 😢 I remember being taken here as a child in the early 60s. Traditionally it was where everyone went for the Wakes Weeks, the annual holidays taken in the Lancashire mill towns.

[@NECinho]

Out of interest why did you stop going?

[@Ian-gw2vx]

Have you ever seen the film "Hindle Wakes" ? A great social snapshot of Blackpool back in it's halcyon days

[@hilarylillie5369]

​@@NECinhomy mother came from Lancashire but moved down south when she got married, then we moved to Argentina so did not go back after that. 😀

[@jamesbrothers7017]

The wakes film is on you tube x

[@NECinho]

@@hilarylillie5369 OK, interesting. Thanks for your response. Do you live in the part of Patagonia where they speak Welsh?

[@sanfordcurtis8242]

It’s like Las Vegas meets Chernobyl

[@AlwaysHereToHelp_]

So it’s like New Vegas then 😂

[@tonyrobinson362]

More like Chernobyl.

[@richardjames3356]

Fellow expats laugh when I say Las Vegas is Blackpool in the desert (there are some seriously shitty parts of LV as well)

[@jerryoshea3116]

​@@richardjames3356Did u live there?

[@benh5093]

@@thelleftaremad7556there's plenty of places to gamble like slots etc but I can only think of one big casino on the strip. Lol.

[@helentucker6407]

Poor old Blackpool. Beautiful winter Gardens

[@pistophercrul3743]

this guy is evil

[@user-jj4br9cf1h]

Nowt wrong with it and most of the people Veitch was calling would be people on a Holiday Break probably from work. Of course Veitch could change his mind on this one as he does with other Topics.

[@Granty_lad55]

Such a shame it was never beautiful but it was nice. So sad to see your home town get treated like crap , used as a dumping ground for cities and immigrants. Together with mismanagement of funds by the council.

[@nickmansfield2528]

Charles, a woman killed herself yesterday here in Wilmslow. She threw herself off the bridge on to the A34 bypass. Not that unheard of you might think… but the crazy thing about this, is her husband was with her in the car… she was driving over the bridge, and out of nowhere she pulled the car over, and jumped off into traffic. Can you imagine how he ever gets over witnessing that? I didn’t witness the jump, but I witnessed him crying in distress being comforted by a woman. I live very close by. I say this to you, because I know you’ve been to Wilmslow quite recently. And we really need to do something about mental health crisis. And what the crisis is: is people who are a little bit sad, and think they are entitled to happiness, when they don’t have it, the tell everyone they have MH issues, and take up valuable resources. So people like this woman, clearly with REAL mental health issues, have to wait 8 weeks to see a mental health professional! That is what the crisis is. And I hope you will try and bring awareness to this issue Sir Charles!

[@DavidRollo-hy9jy]

No way did you write that in 2mins 😂

[@sorearm]

Was this the manchester road that was closed the other day

[@Swiss6Made]

I’m was in the traffic and could see people on the bridge. As a young man I finished with a GF whilst driving and she got out while was doing 40 she survived- mate was in the back. People just snap

[@JA96]

I was on the bypass round the corner at the time yesterday. Couldn’t believe it.

[@ZachAsaD]

Also, the NHS has been decimated over the years and with the health tourism and demand for the NHS getting greater there’s no hope

[@Ruffmushbadboy]

My nan owned a hotel near the pleasure beach and Visiting her was a highlight of my childhood rip Nan

[@pistophercrul3743]

this guy is evil spread the love and realise

[@stuartb4525]

Saw Chubby Brown in the Winter Gardens a few times. Hes good and the place inside is good.

[@deanishere7237]

chubby only ever got paid if he sold a certain amount of tickets... probably why he doesn't bother anymore !!!

[@josephthompson1318]

It's much bigger now, the 1st event on 1st weekend in Feb of a Rock Festival through to Christmas. Longest season by moths

[@Joseppiii-kp6es]

Apart from being on every month at north pier ?

[@pistophercrul3743]

this guy is evil

[@pammackenzie8917]

He is a massive piss taker he is a disgrace

[@triplesod3760]

I went to Manchester City centre recently. Not been there since the 1990s. It was horrible.

[@user-io2et5bv2s]

Agreed…den of iniquity. Cesspit of violence and debauchery.

[@lee4171]

Yep, a major shithole. Like most of our cities.

[@kelvinmeneely3116]

@@user-io2et5bv2s Why? Please explain?

[@FishTillYouDrop]

Manchester is a real hole. At least Blackpool has a beech. 🏖.

[@user-io2et5bv2s]

@@FishTillYouDrop It has a beach so they can drain the sh1t into it….Manchester canals can’t cope with the amount there, hence why it is so prevalent on the streets.

[@jwrobin21]

Blackpool (well named) is the sort of place you visit once or twice a year to remind yourself why you do not visit.

[@user-io2et5bv2s]

A year? I visited once in 1979 and again in 1993….thats enough for me.

[@richardjones8699]

Unfortunately, everywhere has got massively worse. It's not just Blackpool.

[@user-io2et5bv2s]

@@richardjones8699 Agreed…try Great Yarmouth. 😱

[@markisaac7970]

Mate! 4 days a year, I stay in Blackpool. Rebellion punk festival, in Winter Gardens! It gets full of colourful mohicans, skinheads, boots and braces, with the whole of Blackpool invaded by punk rockers, making me look forward to this year!!

[@user-bf6hd6hu1m]

Like I said, white trash town.

[@stevedawg9588]

A derelict former holiday town, you couldn't pay me enough to suffer a week in that hole

[@blackbob3358]

Ya watched it though, 9588 ? Beat it, you're a serial offender.

[@69Phuket]

Drive thru only. When lights on.

[@stevedawg9588]

@@blackbob3358 You beat it, you're a serial knobhead

[@stevedawg9588]

@@blackbob3358 I watch all of Charlie's vids, you got a problem with that?????? BUTT OUT

[@velvetinedrapes4359]

@@stevedawg9588 lmao you're a right mong

[@simondavids9438]

Very grim indeed .Watch a walk on the wild side ,he does all of Blackpool.

[@pistophercrul3743]

this guy is evil

[@richardjones8699]

And Visit Fylde Coast

[@Ian-gw2vx]

My first experience of Blackpool was a very rainy summer day trip in 1974. So excited as the Dr Who exhibition had recently opened earlier that year. To come face to face with the monsters and Daleks you had been terrified by on tv was both fascinating and darn scary. You could walk into the pleasure beach free and pay per ride which was pence. The funhouse was fantastic albeit the scary laughing clown. The song "Beach Baby" was in the charts then and always reminds me of this visit whenever I hear it, which of course is rare now. It was much more a family resort back then with lots of elderly folk who came out of the war dressed in flat caps, raincoats, headscarves' and tweed jackets. Last time I went was 1994 and it had already got pretty seedy by then. I might drive up again this year and document it for old times sake.

[@valetillidie6884]

I remember as a Child running out of that Dr who exhibition with my dad in pursuit ...I remember the dalek suddenly coming to life saying exterminate..I shit my pants as a 6 year old 🤣🤣🤣

[@dr.lexwinter8604]

My wife is American. I am absolutely 100% taking her to Blackpool tower and convincing her it's the Eifel Tower in Paris. I almost had her going on drop bears from Australia where I was born. I'm pretty confident I can do this!

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Some yanks asked us where the beach was in malaga so we directed them north over a rather Large hill ...

[@nigelcarren]

To convince her you are TRULY in Paris, you will need to visit the approach to the tower the night before and deposit at least two 25kg bags of Dog S### on the pavement! Best wishes from France mon ami! ❤️🐌😂

[@ALLISEEIS6S]

Miss Blackpool of the 90s/00s

[@AdamMarkAteMyHamster]

I miss England of the 90s

[@pjoseph5950]

Definitely

[@Damien616]

Was she sexy?

[@MarkPiccolo]

​@AdamMarkAteMySandwich me too the 1990 was awesome in Blackpool

[@ccg1404]

Miss Blackpool now wears a burkha!

[@tonylewis472]

Hi Charles i hope your well, i've been watching your videos now for about 2 years, and have always thoroughly enjoyed them, so just wanted to say thanks very much for the hours of fun and enjoyment you've given me, and also to say you have loads of nerve in the way you deal with the confrontations that you have to suffer, and yet you still keep going, anyway keep em coming all the best Tony.

[@goldenserenity2385]

Blackpool is great. I like that it hasn’t upgraded. It still retains that genuine nostalgia

[@jessicarabbit1138]

You can find the same in every town. Good bad and ugly.

[@BlueHToys]

Winter gardens was opened in 1878 and has different themed rooms. It also at one point had a ferris wheel.

[@pistophercrul3743]

this guy is evil spread the love and realise

[@johnboyginger]

The ultimate definition of ‘bleak’.

[@marionedunford4417]

I live in Blackpool, it's not all like this, there's some lovely parts, it's not a city it's a town, that warehouse you talked of is the old post-office, try going to the beautiful Stanley park,

[@pistophercrul3743]

this guy is evil

[@marionedunford4417]

Painted a dreadful picture of blackpool, there's a lot of lovely places in Blackpool town

[@leedavies1475]

The guy is a scum bag

[@nemesisc8341]

It’s a dump and the people are like the hills have eyes

[@OneLove101.]

I think Blackpool always looks nicer when it’s sunny! 🌞 🎪 🏖️

[@SamFernley]

My dear friend loved Blackpool, Northern Soul nights, passed away a year ago from MND. I miss him a lot. Dave Hodkinson, Northwich, RIP

[@aimeenotley970]

There’s a guy called Tony Taylor that appeals parking tickets and he pretty much always wins! Search him up. He’s appealed and won mine!

[@ianlivsey7200]

I used to love this place. Now, I'd rather walk round Morecambe with a nail in my shoe on a wet Wednesday night than go there. The good news is though Charlie, if it got worse the longer you stayed, I suppose it must be improving now you've left. Lol.

[@thedad7313]

It’s a mess. Everything is rundown, dirty, dilapidated, closed, or falling down. It’s heyday way a long, long time ago.

[@giovannigiorgio3727]

You are talking about Britain right? 😏

[@thedad7313]

@@giovannigiorgio3727 seems I am, yes. Sad times

[@lesliehayton2929]

Looks like a holiday - from , Wakefield , or keighley !

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

@@giovannigiorgio3727 indeed he is, i live in a so called 'nice' place and i would go there happily for a break lol.

[@ThomasShelby-to7oy]

England in a nutshell. Shit tip. Mass deportations needed

[@tobsta30]

The Winter gardens looks great. Shame it's in Blackpool.

[@FadGadget1]

Run by a Labour Council. Says it all.

[@oscarpepper3483]

Aye I’m sure that’s the only contributing factor into its decline

[@richardjones8699]

The Labour Council has ensured huge sums are being invested in regenerating the town. Unfortunately, they've had to combat years of decline under a Tory Council - just like the Country. If you neglect something for years it can't be instantly turned around.

[@biker-jy9rv]

When labour gets in, the UK will become a paradise just like their councils... It'll be great.😮😮

[@joebacchetti5890]

[@oscarpepper3483]

@@biker-jy9rv this is everyone’s issue neither labour or the conservatives will ever help this county the system is rotten to its core

[@breakit46]

I saw the Grumbleweeds on the pier, I was a young boy, they put the lights out and they came through the audience in skeleton suits with torches, I wet my pants, honestly, I pissed em, too much for a young boy to take in.

[@pistophercrul3743]

this guy is evil spread the love and realise

[@breakit46]

@@pistophercrul3743 you put 2 spaces between the love. Apt

[@kelpiemad100]

OMG I could cry I used to live there during the summer season. I was in a show. I loved the place. It’s disgusting what it’s like now. 😮😡

[@blackbob3358]

A jock in Blackpool in the holidays ? Mi timbers are well and truly shivered. Ya alright, Charlie.

[@Northstar-Media]

There's a lot to hate in the world, but there is beauty if you look a little deeper. 🏵✨️

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

true, we must have balance but we shouldn't have let it get this bad!

[@sashaboo72]

The beauty is the 🌊 sea

[@peterlarkin762]

I hope those monks found a hotdog stand and were made one with everything. Better have the right amount of cash though, because change must come from within.

[@markrainford1219]

😂

[@user-bp4df7rw7l]

I went swimming as a kid at Blackers in the 70s doing front crawl grabbed a solid human turd never been in the sea since !!!

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

Good times😂

[@enochianmagic]

😅😅😅

[@enochianmagic]

That Musta been crap

[@user-bf6hd6hu1m]

Yeah, it's a shit hole alright.

[@MontgomeryPisswhistle]

How sad. Emblematic of the decay of our country. I have great memories of holidays in Blackpool as a child. I knew I recognised Winter Gardens - it used to be Professor Peabody's Playplace and despite its kiddly-fiddly-esque name, was an amazing place for kids but would never be allowed today due to health & safety

[@jamesavery2]

That's where I had my first tattoo , I was drunk as a skunk , but had a good weekend with all my workmates . The year was 1981 😅

[@sunnyjim1355]

There's a huge multi-story carpark smack in the middle of Blackpool centre, really not far from where they illegally parked - so if they can't be bothered to use it - TOUGH!

[@andreastevenson6634]

I danced Blackpool in 2019, and my partner and I both agreed that Blackpool is where customer service goes to die. Just dazzlingly bad hotel and restaurant service.

[@lemdixon01]

Those God awful war of the world street lamps round the corner from Church Street. When I lived back in Clevelys for a few years, I think I went into Blackpool town centre once just to catch the train. It still can be nice to walk along the promenade though.

[@andrewbowen6875]

I never liked Blackpool even as a toddler and had to be carried out of the circus screaming the place down due to the clowns.

[@helentucker6407]

Lol, I cried my eyes out on the donkeys 😊

[@andrewbowen6875]

No doubt sensitive to that nefarious forced enjoyment in Blackpool. I remember my mom punching some Mickey Mouse on the pleasure beach after running up scaring her lol

[@ccg1404]

Coulrophobia is real. I suggest you apply for a disabled parking badge.

[@andrewbowen6875]

@ccg1404 lol I’ve been trying to tell folks I’m in the oppressed minority category for years. Funny how my grandpa loved all the kiss me quick hats ect

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

Do you still hear the clowns at night Clarissa?

[@jerrywallop5647]

Blackpool is brilliant for 4 hours once every couple of years……it’s an amazing institution……big part of my upbringing…..

[@fionaboss1512]

Not been for years last time i went some guy tried to break in to my room in the night, the chef was in the next room and chased him down the street with just a towel round his waist, he caught him and handed him to the police. He came back to tell me it was safe now. My daughter was shaking and worried he would come back so i sat up most of the night reassuring her she was safe. I checked out in the morning and never went back to Blackpool.

[@stevenmclucas1894]

😳🙈

[@nigelfarage69]

I like to visit Blackpool now and then. It always reminds me to stay sober and earn money.

[@goodyeoman4534]

Glimpses of the pleasant country this used to be before the gates were open to the hordes.

[@Damien616]

@@thelleftaremad7556 Careful now, it's a crime oop norf...

[@kevinwest942]

Cheap vacations abroad decimated that town… not immigrants you clown.

[@davidspion9548]

The state of Blackpool has nothing to do with immigration. It's all on the British and the failing British government. This is what the British have done to Britain. Scapegoating immigrants simply takes the focus off the real culprits, who are homegrown.

[@Damien616]

@@davidspion9548 Meanwhile, lets check in on the immigrant towns and cities, in the UK and third world...ahh, such paradises and Utopias!!! In your head...

[@davidspion9548]

@@Damien616 What on earth are you on about? Facts are, Blackpool being a mess is all in the British, not immigrants. It's about time we took responsibility for the mess we've made of big swathes of our own country.

[@tomcollins4617]

I can remember as a child , that would have been a fantastic place to visit,

[@glennoc8585]

I went there in the 70s as a young lad with my cousin and grandparents and had a lovely time. Stayed at a nice hotel on the promenade and remember going on the haunted train and funfair. We saw a circus show on the pier if my memory serves me well. Sad to see its gone downhill

[@philipjones9458]

That couple didn't look disabled to me. If the badge holder isn't with car the badge gets withdrawn, quite rightly.

[@ninajanecooper]

Most disabilities and illnesses are invisible to the casual observer.

[@OneLove101.]

@@ninajanecooperExactly!! I have been challenged so many times. Especially from elderly gentleman, who feel entitled to open my passenger door to berate me, telling me I should t be parked in the space. When the reality is, I’m on palliative care with life support. Maybe at first glance, sitting in my car I look “fine” but once I’ve shown them the proof they ask for, they usually skulk off. 🥴

[@siedliko]

He did listen, 60 frames per second. Let's go.

[@dazzieboi5430]

That AB video was just creepy when the wo MAN officer started his search

[@metannica1]

I was born and raised next to Blackpool (St Annes-on-Sea) and I'm appalled at how disgusting Blackpool is now. I remember being in a school choir, which took part in the police concert, at the Winter Gardens. I also used to go to dinners there, with my parents. So, it's nice to see they've kept that building looking good. But how can the council justify spending somewhere around £80million, on the seafront, whilst the rest of the town goes to ruin?

[@TheSadButMadLad]

20:50 They're all parked. The seagulls can create a huge amount of mess in just minutes. 🤣

[@MasterBlaster3545]

No signs of disability there. Nearly every time I see somebody get out of a car with disabled badges, they are fully abled in my eyes. Maybe they drive for somebody but that does not mean they can use it when that person is not around. Hope it was a nice fine. Why should others be made to park elsewhere or pay for parking when others are abusing the system?

[@feraiivie]

@@MasterBlaster3545this hurts a bit to read. My mum had a blue badge and has lung cancer … not very “visible” but thank God you’re not the one who issues them

[@solitudeguard5688]

@@feraiivie?

[@ninajanecooper]

@@MasterBlaster3545 Not all disabilities and illnesses are visible to the casual observer. You can’t ‘see’ cancer, heart problems, or pain. Please stop judging.

[@JA96]

Would love you to join us in Alderley Edge one Saturday! 🙌🏼 Plenty to film on the bypass and village, all sorts happens Charles 🤣

[@senianns9522]

Even the Tower looks 'rusted out'! With the salt sea air hitting it all the time it certainly needs a lick of paint!

[@RitchieRosson]

Loving the new camera footage Charlie.

[@RitchieRosson]

Very steady as you work. But does it film kicks well? Is there a setting for that?

[@Malegys]

Blackpool, "The Margate of the North"

[@PhilipWilkinson-fn9dd]

Love it Charlie cheered me up make me laugh in positive way cheers ❤

[@DMC888]

20 million visitors last year. It’s not all bad.

[@uk-martin4905]

I'm sorry....that's nonsense. In the early 1990s when I lived there, it claimed to have 17m visitors but even that was considered optimistic by residents. There re no cowds there anymore. Those days have gone. The town has become an embarassment. Tragic.

[@DMC888]

@@uk-martin4905 maybe you need to see it for yourself. This weekend it was heaving despite the not so good weather. The pubs were full, town car parks full and hundreds of people arriving at Blackpool North station when I left. They’re hosting the UK coach rally this weekend with over 50 coaches lined up on the front by the tower. Just one of many events.

[@davidsimpson2685]

What happened years ago was people who were on the dole for life went to Blackpool for a day out. And then in their wisdom though why do we come and live in Blackpool and be on the dole and life will be wonderful ever day just like our day out.

[@spiceheads-media]

Great video man, I was out too today and missed you by seconds after filming the Hare Krishna's lol Steve@Spiceheads

[@quillclock]

my therapist: clean shaven Mario isn't real . . . 9:03

[@CharlesVeitch]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nickshields7258]

A bit snobbish with your attitude and totally disagree with you basically having a go at the homeless calling them thieves and druggies,their is a lot of genuine homeless people on the streets of Blackpool,maybe you should concentrate on the illegal immigrants who are taking up the hotels in Blackpool like the Metropole and looking at what Blackpool council aren't doing for the town.

[@mjh5437]

Most genuine homeless are thieves and druggies too,I couldn`t care less...They`re just lazy scroungers and bums.

[@69Phuket]

13:40 Never been inside there...Wow! Thanks!

[@jamiebrooks3864]

Its famous for different kind of rock in 2024

[@stevenmclucas1894]

😂

[@Boudi-ca]

Have Blackpool council just given up? Look at the rubbish everywhere. At least get a road sweeper out ffs.

[@mattbridges322]

To those who always slag Blackpool off. Simply stay away and don't ever come or come back simples. BTID ❤

[@toucan221]

Thanks for the tour of the Winter Gardens, I will have get there and see that for myself.

[@jackwatsonepic626]

Yeah, that's what I always do Charlie , park about a mile away from any restrictions and get a taxi in or a bus even. It runs a lot of cheaper trust me🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Damien616]

You need a bus or taxi to go one mile?

[@jackwatsonepic626]

@Damien616 when I was younger I could run it but now, I can't even barely walk it . And 1 day the same thing will happen to you And how do I know this because I was young and fit like in the 80s And when older gentlemen were trying to explain to me what it was gonna be like when I got in my 60s I laugh at them 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

[@Damien616]

@@jackwatsonepic626 I'm a grandfather, go easy on me. I'm just aging well 😁

[@jackwatsonepic626]

@Damien616 Put it this way when I was 49 I used to regularly go to a gym.At 52 had to pack it in because I couldn't hack it no more at 55 I could barely lift myself up the stairs and now at 62 I am goosed That's why I have to get buses and taxis. I can't walk too far. And it has nothing to do with drugs. Or steroids.

[@paulinedraper980]

​@@jackwatsonepic626 Im same age and practically disabled ( used to go hill walking not so long ago) I believe I'm vaccine damaged since Covid. All my health problems are since the jabs. Like a fool I had three of them

[@Wishful-Thinking]

The best thing is people are slating Blackpool like the rest of the UK is some kind of Utopia. 😂Ok there are some nice places to visit in the UK if you really look hard enough but overall percentage wise the UK has been allowed to become a complete s******e. So slate Blackpool if you must but I’d strongly advise you to open your eyes and look around where you live whilst you’re doing it. 🤔

[@TallSilentGuy]

If it weren't for the fact that it's by the sea I wouldn't even give Blackpool the time of day.

[@dawnwalker4965]

Many a great weekend spent there,when the lights are on,good fun.xx

[@anne-mariethompson4365]

I see people all the time saying how wonderful a holiday in Blackpool is. There is no way, after this video, I would ever subject myself or my children to this place! Unbelievable! Looking forward to being in Tenerife in 2 days 😍

[@Ringringringringbananaphone]

Some people getting very territorial and offended on blackpools behalf in the comments. I don’t understand why people defend these derelict towns where the people are all jobless losers. Same when they defend crackheads too.. they’re violent and would probably mug them given half a chance, yet ppl in the comments will defend them as if their lives depend on it hahaha

[@kenirving5240]

Disabled my arse. Granny, let me use your badge today,…

[@cloggso]

Not all disabilities are visible son bear that in mind in case it happens to you!!!

[@gaza721]

Don't judge a book by its cover, epilepsy is a hidden disability

[@karlc9773]

That's what I thought, it's disgusting behaviour

[@oldskoolordie]

Not all disabled people are nice.

[@karlc9773]

@gaza721 I agree not all disabilities are visible, but you don't get a badge for epilepsy and we all know parking badges are well abused, my dad got one when he had cancer, some the people using them there's no way it was there's

[@postcardsfromprotest]

It's a real shame to see the decline. 40 years ago, I'd go there as a kid and it still had plenty of life in it but as you say, cheap package holidays have taken away it's core economy, which was leisure and holidays. Now it serves mostly hen parties and stag nights and it's really hard for a lot of smaller hotels to make ends meet. Lot's of genuine poverty and social issues there which doesn't help, but that is pretty much the same in a lot of Northern towns and cities, long forgotten and abandoned by government policy and investment. Blaming decline on drug addicts is daft though. There has been a complete failure to properly resource specialist treatment for people who faill into that abyss, along with a failure to deal with the criminal gangs supplying them, and that problem exists in a lot of places. Blaming councils, who have lost 60% of central government funding under the Tories over the last 14 years is also disingenuous. Councils are legally required to provide certain services, which includes adult social care, a cost that is forcing most councils to borrow to pay for it. Most councils have had to cut youth provision completely because of those cuts, as all available funding is needed for those legally required services. Only a change of government prepared to properly fund what is needed to tackle these issues will change anything, and that will never be the Tories or right wing libertarians, who think food banks are great.

[@enochianmagic]

What i really find interesting is that the decline of blackened Blackpool can not be blamed on immigration. Not one diversity is our strength comment!

[@Loveallthingsporschejaguar]

I can only dream of living somewhere so beautiful.

[@tonymason8481]

Was in Blackpool on Friday was shocked at the slum like conditions that was clearly evident through the town, it seems Blackpool has been abandoned to the slum landlord/ hoteliers, even on the golden mile it looked grubby and uncared for ! Surely the town council has a lot to answer for these authorities cannot keep harping back to the pandemic for an excuse to do nothing, Blackpool for years has been a favourite destination of ours Now just like a lot of the hotels is seems to be a uncared for crumbling botched up dump so so sad Blackpool Authorities hang your heads in shame !!!

[@user-qf7jr4pk4u]

I love Blackpool, I go to this really good hotel

[@stuartb4525]

Hardly a decent hotel or guest house in Blackpool. I've been loads a time, and most of them are stinking.

[@mikehipperson]

I went to a hotel in Blackpool a couple of times. The last time it went bust then some scrotes burnt it down about a year ago! Did everyone a favour.

[@reggie933]

I know that hotel. Wink wink

[@Barth78]

Knocking shops

[@ALLISEEIS6S]

Orite Richard the III​@@stuartb4525

[@MalaysiaPhilip]

Last thing I would have expected to see in Blackpool was an advert for LBC.

[@derek-press]

one of them hotels on Lonsdale Road,don't know which one, it was back in 1985,there was 30 or so of us Mancunians and we all crashed out in two rooms we had booked,this was of course after we had done the pub crawl on my brothers stag night ,two rooms booked, 30 or so lads,I think 30 of us made it back there and we just slept anywhere in the rooms,bed .bath ,floor whatever, I and a great mate Tony, were the first ones up in the morning (it was practically morning anyway)and we found a Greasy Spoon nearby and had a great full English,got back and the rest were all sort of waking up and we told them where we had been and the lot of them went off round there,that was a good mornings earnings for that cafe

[@user-eg8pv2om7j]

Blackpool ; An entire town helping police with their enquiries.

[@unies176]

I remember visiting Blackpool out shopping arcades seafront with the wife and kids occasionally in early 90s and 2000s.. It's a total eyesore and a disgrace for the Blackpo9l residents in 2024..

[@wellybobs4403]

I was born bread and buttered in Blackpool. It was in fast decline at the end of the 60s. The best parts still remain like, Stanley Park, The tower and ballroom. The Grand theatre. As a kid I used to walk along the prom to read all the saucy postcards!

[@masterknife8423]

What was the town like in the 90s? With the Tower turning 100 and the opening of the Big One thirty years ago I thought the place wouldn't look as run down as it has been these past 20 years

[@Mrchipsv2]

Blackpool is disgusting place, one of the most dangerous place to live in the UK. It's a dump

[@Damien616]

@@user-yr7re9oe4s By the looks of it, judging from the video, you lot did it well enough yourself...

[@AdamMarkAteMyHamster]

​@user-yr7re9oe4s people can say what they want 😂 who are you to think no one should say anything you don't like. Fanny

[@Mrchipsv2]

@@user-yr7re9oe4s I'm not the one shitting on it you are, you live there so you stop shitting 👍🏻Blackpool is the most dangerous major town in Lancashire, and is the second most dangerous overall out of Lancashire's 236 towns, villages, and cities.

[@Damien616]

@@user-yr7re9oe4s From a great height, too?

[@Damien616]

@@user-yr7re9oe4s Did you wipe afterwards?

[@Itzjustmexx]

Blackpool. Is the best I live here and it's amazing in the summer

[@peterroyce3487]

Always keep an eye out for you in manchester charlie. And on the day we leave blackpool, you are there. Feels like youre avoiding us 😂😂😂😂

[@peterolley7159]

Course he’s avoiding it ever since he ran into that building like little girl from matey with the bike seat 😂he knows he’s crossed the line this time that geezer isn’t going to leave that trust me he will feel silly without revenge

[@Adventureswithvinnie]

My mate ( young blood ) lives in Blackpool does a lot of music relating to cancer, and other charity’s really generally decent

[@hassyg4083]

The white English people really ruined Blackpool but we aren't allowed to say that. Sunak will fix Blackpool before Ukraine

[@Damien616]

Was your tongue planted firmly in cheek there or did you say that without a trace of irony?

[@johnmccann9945]

Why do you go out off your way to find people with drink and drug issues you don't know how they ended up that way in the first place nor do you care once again an easy target for your money shot your such a wanker I'm livid cause I didn't know you were in the town today I would have sent you back to manchester with a very sore pair of bollox something that's long overdue leave vonerable people alone ab is a proper auditer unlike you you have nothing in common and never will take a leaf out of his book and show human beings respect

[@MC-emmcee]

Blackpool is ugly, dirty, tacky and totally run down. OK, so most large seaside towns, these days, are run down but Blackpool is the pits.

[@fjtpersian6566]

Except Brighton and Bournemouth.

[@user-do4oz2gx5g]

I was a. Big shabbier than last time Charlie but I still like the old dump.The Winter Garden's was a sight for sore eyes absolutely beautiful¡!!

[@roamerofthenight]

Joke shop is closed down due to compulsory purchase

[@FirstnameLastname-yx8cy]

The only reason you should go to blackpool is for the pleasure beach, the beach, the rides at the piers and the indoor shopping centre

[@enochianmagic]

Dont know about the shopping centre. I liked the circus in the tower, nostalgic memories of the donkey rides on the beach, and the zoo's great!!

[@markrainford1219]

Lot of good memories of Blackpool. Noticed how much you smiled too Charlie.

[@deccodinero]

great vid as always !

[@CursaMario5721]

9:05 Mario: Wahoo

[@G4RY1159]

Once a great Holiday Town that provided many great memories for a lot of us, Now - Today a rundown overpriced filthy Toilet

[@johnmelling9950]

I used to love Blackpool in the 80s and 90s. I still hold fond memories of visiting there growing up but in all honesty its now an awful dump. I still go there for a few drives up and down the promenade during the summer but i have no interest in walking the streets.

[@X-GamerPro-HD]

10:22 for those who don’t know this building set on fire. It was a hair salon….so something caught a flame 11:13 uses to be royal male factory

[@patthewoodboy]

my home town was in decline for years under a labour council , now its been conservative run and the improvements are obvious

[@BrianHinchcliffe-xk4cd]

We went in December for an extended family weekend, after insistence from a 50 yr old daughter who loved it when she was last there as a 9 year old. The "holiday villa" we booked turned out to be an HMO that had lost its certificate. It was filthy, holes in walls, broken furniture, smashed doors, disgusting kitchen, with week-old hash browns still under the grill! The rest of Blackpool was to the same standard. Even the sea is officially unfit to bathe due to sewage.The worse thing is that it is NOT cheap. Over-pricing on everything including parking. A hateful ruin of a town.