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Blackpool holidays

June 2024

  • A girl plays on the beach at Weymouth in 1998, as shot by Martin Parr.

    The Great British Seaside
    Punch and Judy, penny slots and Pontins: why the great British seaside continues to hold our imagination

    Rachel Cooke traces the long history of the UK’s resorts through nostalgia, deprivation and revival

July 2023

  • Blackpool Tower and Central Pier with reflection in water on beach at sunset, Lancashire, UK.

    Blackpool illuminated: resetting the jewel in Britain’s seaside crown

    After years of decline, Blackpool is undergoing a renaissance and is becoming a precious heritage destination

June 2021

  • Blackpool beach, tower and illuminations. Seen at night.

    UK seaside revival
    You don’t come on holiday to Blackpool for a good night’s sleep

    The resort still offers fun and naughtiness, but now has an arty B&B and some classy food if, for some reason, you don’t want cod and chips

March 2021

  • The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, AKA Neasden Temple, in north-west London.

    A very British grand tour … for 2021

    Our writer reimagines the cultural odyssey, selecting 12 highlights that together celebrate Britain’s history and modernity

December 2018

  • The Promenade and Tower from South Pier, Blackpool, 1900.

    From the Guardian archive
    Christmas at Blackpool – archive, 1900

    25 December 1900 In the run-up to Christmas a storm has lashed Blackpool, but now the tide laps the sand lazily and it is time for Christmas Eve celebrations to begin

November 2018

  • Photograph: Benita Suchodrev

    Doughnuts, drag and an extraterrestrial: 48 hours in Blackpool – in pictures

  • Michael Wan’s Wok Inn 118 Promenade, Blackpool FY1 1RA

    Jay Rayner on restaurants
    Wok Inn Seaside Noodle Bar, Blackpool: ‘Utterly beguiling’ – restaurant review

October 2016

  • Lightpool sign on Blackpool Tower

    Blackpool Illuminations gets arty with new LightPool festival

    Yoko Ono is among the artists taking part in Blackpool’s festival of lights, a showcase of 30 installations, sculptures and performances across the town

October 2015

  • blackpool's golden mile

    Seaside towns must reinvent themselves or risk going under

    Matt Smith
    Coastal communities need to develop individual identities to attract visitors and entrepreneurs, argues Matt Smith

July 2015

  • Desire HOT ICE

    Hot Ice: the sensational skaters of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach

    This astonishing institution is an exhilarating combination of art and sport, beauty and speed, balletic skill and kitsch

November 2014

  • Helen Pidd outside the Broadway hotel in Blackpool

    Please don’t fine me, I’m a journalist: a night in Blackpool’s Broadway hotel

    The Broadway hotel fined a couple £100 after they wrote a bad review on Tripadvisor. How would Helen Pidd fare on her stay?

June 2014

  • The roof of the Kimberley, held up by a single pole.

    Shortcuts
    The worst hotel in Britain: Blackpool's New Kimberley

    Owner Peter Metcalf, who has in the past been compared with Basil Fawlty, is in prison for breaching 15 fire-safety regulations at the 90-room building

May 2014

  • Blackpool Tower is reflected in a puddle as a girl plays on Blackpool beach

    Dozens of English beaches could fail new stricter sewage standards

    Beaches including Blackpool and Margate may be affected by tighter EU water quality regulations

December 2013

  • Funny Girls Blackpool - video

    Funny Girls: behind the scenes at Blackpool's longest-running drag revue – video

    Photographer and filmmaker Sean Smith steps backstage as the Funny Girls revue in Blackpool prepares for its Christmas Spectacular

September 2013

  • Fellah Hotel Morocco

    Joanne O'Connor's great escapes
    Travel tips: a Moroccan retreat, ekeing out summer and deals of the week

    Stay in the heart of a new cultural centre near Marrakech, or get your skates on and nip down to English coast

August 2013

  • A seaside cafe on the seafront in Margate

    UK seaside resorts in decline – in pictures

    The Centre for Social Justice has published a report called Turning the Tide, looking at social conditions in five UK seaside towns

  • Donkey at Blackpool

    Open thread
    How do you revive a tired seaside town?

    Open thread

    Open thread: A study of coastal resorts has come up with some depressing results. Tell us how they could be helped to regenerate

  • A view of Murano, Venice

    Joanne O'Connor's great escapes
    Travel tips: stay in a Venice island's first hotel and hire a beach butler

    Tour the glassworks while you stay in Murano's first hotel, order drinks for the beach and the week's best deals

July 2013

  • roadchurch, the successful ITV drama series, has been credited with giving Dorset a tourism boost

    Broadchurch, Downton Abbey and Alan Partridge help UK 'set-jetting' take off

    TV and film dramas give boost to holidays in Britain, say tourism chiefs, with Dorset the latest to gain from 'Harry Potter effect'

June 2013

  • Trail Seaside 4.jpg: Cleethropes UK seaside mid 1970s

    News blog
    UK seaside resorts: then and now - in pictures

    Seaside resorts across Britain attracted thousands of holidaymakers in their heyday, but these coastal towns have faded, with the former grandeur serving only as a reminder of a glorious bygone era.

    Seaside towns around the country are being rejuvenated in the hope they can bring back visitors. Margate's Dreamland amusement park was given £10m last week to transform it into a heritage-themed park. Similar renovation projects are taking place in Blackpool, Morecambe and Bexhill-on-Sea.

    Guardian readers share their images of seaside towns during their heyday, in their ruin or after receiving a new lease of life.

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