In reply to Al Evans:
Well before my time then but I have been here every year on childhood holidays with grandparents so can remember what it was like in the 70's. I first moved here in June '92 and got a bedsit on Regent Road - just around the corner from the Blackpool collage. My mates daughter finished her 2 year course in that collage recently - media studies, you never know, she too may become a TV cameraman <camera-person>
Was that when you did the routes in Trowbarrow? Come to think of it, I do seem to remember a story about a monkey and the Trowbarrow routes? Was it a sea front photograph monkey or just my fuddled memory?
Palatine road area has be renamed locally as little Poland, It is where a lot of imigrant workers live. A large number of the B&B's and holiday flats now house imigrants and the unemployed <a lot of Scots have moved down to Blackpool, perhaps in the hope of cheap accomodation and work?> It appears to me that the holiday business has died and in order to retain an income, the property owners have been forced to rent out their property to anyone they can get or face going bust. Its sad as the town now has a big drugs and crime problem. Still same as anywhere I guess.
I imagine you had a blast in the 70's here, it was Blackpool's golden time, the first five years or so where good times for me, got up to alsorts and when you just leave your mum and dads and move to a place like this you really think you've made it!!