Sign in with Facebook
Blackpool's Model Village and Gardens
Blackpool TowerThe illuminations
You can catch a Blackpool tour bus from Pontins to see the illuminations. It’s usually a double Decker, but I don’t sit upstairs as it usually too windy & cold. What the driver will do is go thorough the back streets of Blackpool & return back along side the illuminations; you will be also given a commentary. The illuminations have been going since 1912; The Lights are about six miles in length & go from Starr Gate (near the Pleasure Beach) down to Bispham. The cost of all this lighting is two million pounds.
Some of the displays are U.F.O’s which flash lights across the road, there are also words near mermaids saying ‘siren’. There’s also spinning discs, Egyptian tombs with door that flies open, smiling faces & pictures from nursery rhymes. There’s also a big silver ball along the seafront which rotates constantly & coloured lights shine on it making patterns. There are rocks along the promenade which have coloured lights in them which change; these would look nice in my garden.
