When did Blackpool start to decline?
Gunnar Pfannerstill
2025-04-27 02:08:02
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Growth was more or less continuous until 1960. However, the traditional British seaside resorts have been in decline for 40 years, ever since people discovered guaranteed summer sun and warmth in Mediterranean countries. Blackpool was badly affected. Between 1990 to 1999 visitor numbers per year dropped from 17 million to 11 million. 1000 hotels ceased trading. 300 holiday-flat premises closed. Average hotel occupancy rate fell as low as 25%. Blackpool was not exciting existing visitors enough to make them come back the following year, nor was it attracting sufficient new customers.
Carter Mayer
2025-04-18 09:43:30
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Blackpool was Britain’s glittering Vegas-on-Sea — and then cheap flights lured us away. Blackpool’s last peak was August bank holiday in 1981, when visitors rented all 28,000 deckchairs in town. Thereafter, the resort led the decline of the British seaside, reaching the bottom of the trough in 2014, when the council offloaded the last 6,000 deck chairs, admitting that no-one had rented one since 2011. In 1911, the town’s Central Station was the busiest in the world, and in July 1936, 650 trains came and went in a single day. The sad fact remains that the biggest Blackpool headline for many of us has been its decline. Blackpool has been as much about levelling up as living it up. The sophistication for which Blackpool was once famous — the Grundy Art Gallery, the Matcham-designed Grand Theatre, and two magnificent ballrooms — has long been overshadowed by a culture of low-brow excess.
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