Blackpool Tower Ballroom & Competition Winner

Here's something a bit different for a Saturday, a few weeks ago a couple of us took a trip to Blackpool Tower. A lot of you guys probably know that I live in Blackpool (for none British readers it's a seaside town based in the north west of England) and have done most of my life, but I have never been up to the top of the tower! Madness I know, I guess I just never got around to it.

Situated on the bottom floor of the Tower complex is the "world famous" Tower Ballroom, a dance hall build in the late 1890s by Frank Matcham. Along with some of the rooms in the Winter Gardens, it's one of the most beautiful dance halls I've ever seen and is truly iconic to the residence. We visited on a Thursday afternoon and it was great to see people still enjoying it for what it is. It's also where my Gran and Grandad met in the early 1950s, they were visiting on holidays respectively, fell in love and moved to Blackpool and lived happily ever after.

You can't beat a happy ending. Enjoy your weekend guys.

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Competition Winner

Thanks to everyone who entered the Hackett x GQ notebook competition, but they're can only be one winner.....

Canh of Say What Canh

Sorry to everyone else but stay tuned as I'm planning a couple more competitions over the next month, as a thank you reading my blog.

Instagram

Will they ever finish painting Blackpool Tower?

I've started using Instagram again, I did get bored of it a while back but I seem to be back into it. Hope you're all having a lovely weekend, I'm about to watch the lads lot against Italy, come on England!

You can follow me at mat_buckets on Instagram, same name for Twitter too. What's yours?

Competition Reminder - The Hackett x GQ notebook giveaway is still open, closing date is Thursday, 28th June.

Old Blackpool

The ABC Cinema, where The Beatles once played

Noah's Ark, the oldest ride at The Pleasure Beach

Blackpool Central Train Station, now a car park

The bottom of my street! It actually still looks like this minus the tram

My hometown doesn't really look like this, it's lost a lot of its charm. Faded seaside glamour at its best. When I was a teenager I did used to hate it but somehow I have grown to love it again. It's tacky but it knows it is. The thing that really ruins it is the train loads of "party people" every week.


Has your home town passed the test of time?