Looking back at … holidays
This month, in the midst of this wonderful, warm British summer, we scroll back through history to take a look at what holidays were like in the 1960s. Today, jetting off to exotic destinations, or pa ...
Tag Archives: Blackpool
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation to debate election manifestos
Just days before the General Election, Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC), is staging its annual gathering in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool from 6-8 Jun ...
From Blackpool to Brighton
With the weather warming up and the British instinct for heading to the beach this year, our coastline is the place to be, with 143 English beaches flying a Blue Flag or Seaside Award, after environme ...
Is it the end of the pier show?
The British seaside appears to have retained a special magnetism, and this may have something to do with the fascinating structures made fashionable by the Victorians. Piers were designed to be as ind ...