Boarded up Blackpool: What's Happening Here?

[@janobyrne2424]

Thanks for your time Stephen, have a pint on me.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@janobyrne2424 Thanks Jan 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@AngelaK-55]

Thanks

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks very much Angela!

[@AngelaK-55]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool your very welcome Stephen

[@rob9994]

Thanks Stephen. I want to give you extra towards the postage for the calendar as I'm outside the UK. Love your content!!

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@rob9994 Thanks so much pal 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@baileysbritain]

All blackpool has to do, forget redevelopment, is bring back how it was, how it used to be, bring back the shows, reopen the bars and clubs, people need enjoyment after a working week. Hotels, B & Bs, lower your prices...the people will flock in..we need it back.

[@DavidKidd-ft4xq]

Great video Stephen keep yourself safe and rest your foot.

[@nigelstringerNVS]

Brilliant video Stephen, always good to see.

[@chrisjohnsonadventures]

Blackpool still my favourite place to go even tho not been for while still love it thanks for the video!

[@RockLineStudios23]

Hi Stephen. Another great video mate. And for that guy knocking the road signs over. “That Blokes A Nutter”! Lol

[@stevensmith7460]

Evening Stephen, so many derelict areas now but it is a bigger town centre than people realise, they are slowly getting things done though, still some nice back street hotels, thanks for the walkabout, cheers mate.

[@johnjordan3768]

Thanks for another great video,Stephen.👌

[@mikebryan7060]

Some lovely looking hotels there . Great vlog Stephen. I love the pace of your videos. Slows me down after a hectic long day at our restaurant and catering business.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@mikebryan7060 Glad you like them Mike.

[@adelemcclymont6790]

Thank you for sharing Stephen x

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

You are so welcome

[@leegorman8322]

Hello Stephen, bit of an idea... Post-Christmas have you thought about doing a storm compilation?🙄🙄 Might be really good viewing. C ya mate

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@leegorman8322 I was thinking of doing some sort of compilation.

[@spodbw1]

I dont care what anyone says, I love Blackpool..

[@LindaHall-z7n]

I do aswell

[@Lee-o8f]

It's character The feral it's up to them prob get knocked over or sent to Ukraine GTA Blackpool Can u do fish and chips Friday Bet u get 100k Dad the dish bigger place opening

[@LD-ge6ge]

I'll second that 100percent 👍😊. I will move there one day. Hopefully 👍💯😁

[@tonywebster8311]

Thank you, my home town it gets a rough ride.

[@joycedixon8746]

Me too

[@mikefisher9895]

Thanks Stephen for a great video 👏 i really enjoyed it time goes so fast couldn't believe it when it finished 😅 can't wait until the next one 👍

[@theabandonedhunter3604]

Great video Sir! Really enjoyed that…. Take care and if you don’t upload again have a great Christmas…. Smithy

[@TheBlackpoolLads]

Hi Steven, what was that lad doing at the start of the video!! Again good walk through, things change so quick, buildings, landscape etc, makes you want to live life to the best you can.. thanks for sharing and taking the time to make another great video.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@TheBlackpoolLads Nutcase lol. Thanks Paul.

[@mildredschulz]

Hi Paul. How are you doing? I hope you are keeping well and not coming up with a cold. Take care and keep warm. All the best. Mildred. xxx

[@juliewright-v3v]

thanks Stephen for another great video

[@JANGLEPOP1]

Always great videos, Stephen. Not just Blackpool, it seems everywhere is suffering as Globalisation takes hold. I fear for our democracy and for our future but at least we have your videos..please don't stop.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks.

[@georgesmellie8717]

Thanks again for another great vlog Stephen i hope you are well

[@hazelmanship7516]

Hi George,hope you're keeping well,hope Linda is ok too and her family. Not too bad here, Ds got bit of a cold again but not poorly, Donna having rough time with her asthma again on 2 nd lot of steroids, but feeling bit better, very worrying. Well take care bye for now 😊xx

[@AdikiaMedia]

Great video Steve 👍

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks pal 👍

[@mildredschulz]

Hi Stephen, thanks for another great interesting video, I was in Blackpool with my brother on Saturday the 30th November it was very busy then too, it was great meeting you and the Blackpool Lads at the opening of Christmas by the sea. A night I will never forget. I came back to Berlin on the 2nd December just before the terrible storm came to the UK. the weather keeps changing. had a few cold days here and now they have forecast 13c here on Wednesday back down to 7c on Thursday. Hope your foot is getting better. Take care and all the best. Mildred xxx

[@baileysbritain]

I love blackpool..blackpool was a really ace place on a Saturday night for us out of town visitors, everyplace was buzzing, used to get a decent 50 pound a night hotel in the town and visit all the bars, start in chaplins, singer in the north pier merrie england and finish in ma Kelly's north or soul suite. Everybody was out in their fineries. Now hotels are so overpriced, pubs/bars are either half empty or shut. Atmosphere has gone, £200 plus cannot be justified for a dead, empty night out in a run down hotel. Ok for a daytrip on a Saturday afternoon but otherwise everything else has been taken away, miss my nights in blackpool. Bring old blackpool back..

[@AngelaK-55]

Thanks Stephen as always a great video and a true gentleman thank you 🙏🎉🎉🎉

[@Nefarious123]

Blackpool Tower would look even better if down the side of the tower it said the word Blackpool in LED lights which could change colours etc

[@YvonneMason-eb7lh]

Love the video Stephen. We also have a lot of Turkish barbers, vape and nail bars - not good is it!! Hope your foot is feeling better and look forward to the next vlog.❤

[@mr.145]

A street in Coventry has 22 Turkish Barbers.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Wowsers.

[@Peter-i1f]

Evening to you Stephen, thank you for another interesting video. it was great to see Christmas by the Sea, was doing so well and hopefully taking lots of money.

[@patriciajervis3909]

Good video many years ago i got engaged and stayed at la tour in albert road and went to the abc❤ those were the days stephen xp

[@garyfaulkner1480]

Hi steve, hope you well pal. Many a happy weekend spent in your hometown mate.❤

[@tonyroberts4742]

Love Blackpool, other towns suffering too. Best of luck.

[@janobyrne2424]

Thanks for the video Stephen. Wouldn't have an electric car if you paid me to, such a hassle. DWP office why is it so big? Wonder if it's an area office. Christmas by the sea is rocking, surprised to see the Star ride in use so quickly after the issue in Birmingham. Please take care crossing the roads it's as if they are heading for you deliberately!😊

[@garethvaughan426]

Great vlog Stephen, appreciate you doing them daily, must be hard work with all the editing 👌👍

[@tinahole2181]

All the best steve for Xmas an new year🎉

[@michaelwhitworth2581]

Love your vids, keep it up☺

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Thanks.

[@Brianschannelwigan-t6y]

Hi Stephen, just watched the video mate 👍, it's now Monday evening the 16th, and we are here 3 nights Staying at the Hilton , going to checkout Christmas by the sea tomorrow , having a very nice time Stephen , bit cold but hey what do we expect in December , going to pick up a calendar tomorrow hopefully from Happy Days Amusement , love all the videos Stephen keep up the great work , Love Blackpool , see you later on the next one .

[@anthonygiglio9860]

Great Video Steve I Enjoyed ItThe Man That Was Knocking Down The Signs zHad Hair Across His Arse😊

[@Flame_boy342]

Bring back the old Blackpool we used to know !!! Secret hand shakes Steven !!!

[@Akstergrind]

Yes. I got married at the old registry office on South King Street and I remember that area around the back of the bus station being quite vibrant, too. There was the Hop Inn and a cool little tiki type bar where we'd go on a Friday night. Years ago there was the Indoor market, the In-Book Exchange and Sandy's Sinfonia record shop, the Wheatsheaf, Grosvenor and Ramsden Arms pubs, the original Flamingo night club and actual houses where people lived. All parts of the real Blackpool...all gone now, replaced by these giant grey, faceless edifices with no life in them... government buildings and hotel chains. They say this is "regeneration" but it's really the town dying, street by street. I'm glad I'm leaving again next year because I can't stand to watch the place disappearing before our eyes.

[@heatherjoy479]

❤blackpool is nice place to visit I to fare away south uk pity about old houses

[@markburns2545]

Yes steve, hope your all good brov...clocked u,going into houndslow, shopping centre, yesterday tea, time, as I came out,....was heading for the crimbo market's....super busy, as always, but good....(nice to see so much tourists, about)...breezy oh my gosh, breezy....massive respect 🙏

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@markburns2545 Well spotted. I rarely go in the Hounds Hill as well.

[@hazelmanship7516]

Evening Stephen,hope you're well, had a decent day today quite mild but colder now. Great vlog as always,stay safe out there. See you soon bye for now 👋😊x

[@georgesmellie8717]

Good evening Hazel i hope you are well it's been raining here most of the day and cold i hope everyone is OK at your end everything fine here I've got some last minute Christmas shopping to do tomorrow and i need to go to the butchers and order my Christmas and New Year Turkey, Steak 🥩 and Steak Pie 🥧 take care and i hope to speak to you soon 🎅

[@georgesmellie8717]

I hope D and Donna get well soon

[@hazelmanship7516]

@@georgesmellie8717 thanks George, it's coming way too quick now, think I've done with the pressies just a couple more to wrap up, picked turkey crown up today, frozen one. Busy day tomorrow, toddlers party,fetched all the food and goodies today, so be a very busy but lovely time, take care bye for now. X

[@mildredschulz]

Hi Hazel. hope you are keeping well. I am doing OK. it was a wet and windy day here today 10c . they forecast 13c here on Wednesday and then it will become colder again. 7c on Thursday and for the rest of the week. will probably be around the same for Christmas. No snow in sight. Take care and all the best. Mildred 🥰🎄⛄👍

[@hazelmanship7516]

​@@mildredschulz hi Mildred, quite mild here today, strange for December,don't want that white stuff though, everything stops here when snow comes, hope you're keeping well and ready for Christmas,it's not long now, hope you have a great Christmas take care spk soon bye for now 😊x x⛄🎄❄️☃️

[@LewStringer-ub2gs]

The prom's amazingly busy for December. Christmas by the Sea has proved its worth.

[@QuintessentiallyBritish]

There's always a wrongen wherever we all go 😂 great video x

[@steveward60]

In 1955/57 I was in the lost child caravan on the prom opposite Woolworths were I got separated from my parents

[@mikelyttle8011]

There are many windows boarded up in Blackpool. The window cleaners got a sander

[@richardwilliams7692]

Do I remember correctly, that the old central Fire Station was on Albert Road, and that the main Police Station was next door?

[@DavidDunning-g6s]

Hi Stephen hope u well nice video as always 😂

[@AngelaK-55]

Have a Christmas 🎄🎁 drink on me thanks again for your brilliant input on Blackpool 🎉🎉🎉

[@martinwebb1681]

Thanks, Stephen. Plenty of hotels around the back streets, I suppose some of them must struggle this time of year. Shame they seem to be doing away with many of the larger shopping units these days I guess there just isn't enough big companies to buy or rent them anymore now we're in the on line shopping age, Amazon etc, have a lot to answer for, but I guess peoples shopping habits are just changing these days.

[@DMC888]

Many of them just shut down for the winter. Energy bills are too high to make a profit.

[@graemehannam3950]

Hi Stephen, yeah we enjoy coming to Blackpool but to us a week is long enough used to stay in a few b&bs and a hotel, but now we own our own touring caravan we can stay in a caravan park for a fraction of the cost of a b&b etc, as for what’s going on with places being boarded up believe me Huddersfield the town where we live is just as bad as , there’s been too much underfunding and as in Huddersfield I believe it’s a little too late

[@Fortbox324]

Iv never seen someone in a strop 😅 great video 👍

[@PhilBurns-oc2vg]

It's a shame that everything was all bought up before the finances for the new developments were all finalised

[@dianemckill5708]

I agree, what happens to the people who've been bought out, what do they do now.

[@anthonyfeeney1210]

Have a good weekend 😀

[@paulguise698]

Hiya Stephen, Is Blackpool a town or City? It could do with money being spent on it,just here and there

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

It’s a town pal

[@KeithDonaldson-b9m]

Hi Stephen excellent night time video in blackpool and blackpool looks great at night time and cookson street what will happen to cookson street is that part of the development i have enjoyed your video's down cookson street and the development will make the area better and it looks cold in blackpool can't wait to summer and excellent news about the old police station and family courts is coming down next year it will make central drive better with the new development thanks Stephen excellent video take care pal from Keith 👍👍👍👍👍

[@jayoneill1533]

I’m waiting for you to go on the Star Danger ride, Steve !!

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Give it time!

[@lifesunsnow]

DWP and parking, 8 hrs at 12 quid or 12hrs its 14 quid, to be safe they need 12 hrs, that's 70 quid a week off their wages going to parking, I suppose the government thought it through and decided it was a great way to supplement local businesses and council so no need to create any parking.

[@clpar-k2x]

You went past the swingers hotel and then on the other side was the sleep well hotel. Obviously, they don't want any noisy nocturnal goings on!

[@judymcgovern8454]

Thank you Stephen another great video. Still think it’s scandalous pulling down all those houses. They should be building that University further out, what about the now vacant Warbreck site which is so big xx

[@dean.mckeown]

Excellent video quality, were you using the new camera?

[@CarolBirtwistle]

I love blackpool ❤❤

[@jennybates]

I remember the registry office being on Church St.

[@gregorycole3511]

Found your deliberate mistake in Cookson Street…Premiere Inn is actually a premier shop lol..enjoying the videos

[@dianemckill5708]

Evening, I'd have thought they would've built the uni before the DWP, would it not make more sense???. I'd like to know who's paying for the electricity bill on that place, I mean it seems the lights are running 24/7.

[@DMC888]

Anyone that pays council tax probably.

[@juliegough350]

Hi Stephen enjoy watching your vlogs,looking forward to jan to putting your calender up 😊 was messaging to ask if you have heard of Fitville shoes? They do them for people with your condition Planctur Fishy mabob,just go onto filters and it brings conditions up,might be worth a try x

[@daviddavies4453]

Stephen maybe the macmaster has used the leccy charger 🔌 for his car 🚙

[@joekerr6685]

The registry office replaced the old police station also the fire station was next door on the corner. I don’t know if you are aware but on Charnley Road behind Granthams was the original Co op funeral directors

[@ljjessop4931]

Great video as always.they are building a multi storey car park where the ABC cinema was starting in jan 25.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@ljjessop4931 Ahh, I didn’t know that.

[@michaeldyas769]

Stephen the police and fire station were where the registry and council offices were, they were still there in the 70s

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Google Maps don't go back quite that far!

[@AndyBeez]

DWP the lights are on but everyone's working from home. Maybe the council boarded up that angry guy's sleeping bag?

[@jackymitchell8487]

Hope your sore foot is much easier Stephen 👍👌🙏

[@bentullett6068]

I think Tower Models have moved elsewhere to a bigger store in Blackpool as it shows another shopfront on Google and the website is still active and up to date.

[@sambuka57]

Council looking to start demolition of old police station in the New Year allegedly. They say they are going to carry on with demolition of the area while they look for new investors after Nikal pulled out.

[@MohammedKhalid-l8m]

I dont get why blackpool has been allowed to die like this, in the 90s it was buzzing, las vegas of the uk. Now its mostly boarded up hotels, shops, and loads of alcoholics ?

[@jordanalt]

it turns out I’m suffering with pneumonia at moment just hoping it goes by time my trip to BP as I really want to be in Blackpool, Did you hear anymore of the house with pigeons living inside did it sell?

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I think it may have sold prior to the auction, but I can't find out for sure. I will have another look at it in the future.

[@Anekiii]

If Blackpool Clowncil are now cash-strapped, how are they going to carry on with this area?

[@junelaw4162]

Evening yeaaaay Cookson street anything going on 😂😂 how long is DWP going to be there I wonder !!! It’s lit up well I wonder who’s payin the electric bill !! Love yer going down Cookson Street 😂😂 we got married there in that registry office 30 years ago 😂😂 yep good idea for them 3 shops I mean you ain’t got to many vape shops Turkish barbers and nail bars 😂😂 great video till the next one 😊

[@ireneroylance9472]

Im lookin to buy there in New Year....😊

[@roger-h2g5c]

Good day Steven. There are so many prominent people that come from Blackpool...Johnny Saint...the well known wrestler etc etc...do you know any of them or seen them walking round town ?

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I've heard of William 'Steve' Regal, who lived in Blackpool but now resides in Hollywood.

[@juliepownall1063]

Hi stephen thanks for uploading the video was interesting thanks

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@juliepownall1063 No probs Julie

[@davidnm21]

Hate these dark early nights be glad when the nights start pulling out again. Cookson Street still looks like it’s holding its reputation. I can remember staying on Albert Rd a fews years back at The Grosvenor Hotel, if it’s still there. That idiot knocking signs over probably a beer monster or worse drugged up to the highs. We’ve just had a guy killed in a head on car crash in my town by a drugged up driver absolute carnage and dreadful tragedy just before Christmas.

[@bernardpage4639]

The police station was on Albert road with the fire station where the car park is now.

[@mrtiabrown]

Any Jungle Hotels in Blackpool 🤠

[@jaymakin8434]

Site investigation drilling checking ground for weight tests

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

@@jaymakin8434 Thanks

[@BOXAR00-t5c]

4th view of Blackpool🙃 tower [8.11] - a beacon of hope yah

[@peterparr3079]

I thought the council offices & wedding place were built were the old Police station was. My daughter got married there .

[@CanonPaulHamilton]

Only 2 mentions of The Tower. Come on Stephen you’re slacking 😂. My Cousin was married in the old registry office soon after it opened in late 80s. It was really smart. My Dad died in 2010 and we went there to register his death and were shocked at how much it had degenerated. Such a mess and the registrar who saw is was wearing jeans and t-shirt….really sloppy. Not surprised it closed tbh.

[@roytabberer7427]

Typical signage at 09:14 there is a sign diverting traffic to the right with a sign above stating No Right Turn!

[@Realsuperdoctor3]

All those shops that are boarded up it's because the rents are too high to keep them open, so you can blame the council for putting up the rates and rents, to buy a shop on the sea front would cost 100's of thousands to buy.

[@bobbyhales9270]

It yet another GPA Provided building 🚦So to get a higher BREEAM rating, you do a way with car parking and put in cycle bays 😊 for your more sustainable future. You’ve got to remember points mean prizes, the less car parking and the more cycle bay the higher the rating is given. You’re probably going to find their cycle bays are inside the building.

[@chrisholt2420]

Elm computers is still open

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

I didn't realise he was still going. I remember going there in the early years of the World Wide Web.

[@safctosh3735]

Cable percussion rig's I do a similar job

[@DMC888]

What do they do?

[@safctosh3735]

@DMC888 take soil & rock samples to test the ground probably for future buildings

[@spiceheads-media]

Steve@Spiceheads-Media, got married there 03 August 1990, the hottest day of the Century, whilst being filmed by Trevor Green from Granada Reports, it lasted 3 years, hope the next one with Bobbie in Summer lasts longer and you come to do the photos and video, lol

[@Scot-i6n]

Shep shows sheep shyer when herding Lambs.

[@FastAsFunk]

Laughing at the Poundstretcher becoming a vape store, a Turkish barbers and nail bar aka a front for money laundering, a front for money laundering and a front for money laundering... 🤣🤣🤣

[@garywalker3818]

no watts down there

[@jamiesrockandsoul]

Its a bit of a mess just two streets away Steven, i hope they spend more money on tha the dwp

[@elizabethdonnelly6451]

Hi Stephen

[@doomybear7389]

"Wot no car park" remember Steve architects design to impress themselves and no for practicality, We have The Council House in Bristol(but an idiot in red trousers re-named it City Hall in 2012) This building is large and impressive and in a class of its own and now G2 listed, Foundation stone laid in 1935 main structure finished in 1939 and completed in 1952 and officially open in 1956 by Queen Elizabeth(the evil man with the little moustache got in the way and that's why it took so long). Then the question was asked, Where are the staff going to park, this was the main place so a lot of the staff would of had a cars, all they did was call some of the buildings behind slums just enough for a car park and knocked them down, (The story of a new car dealership nearly without a parts department I'll leave for another day) The guy with the problem probably had drugedupitist⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@JackyTracey]

Yes it is closed, Adelaide surgery is now in Elizabeth Street, it has been for about 3 years or 4 years