My late dad always told me to look up at buildings that's where history is ☺️

@jacquelinemccann1493

11 ай бұрын

my dad too karen especially charles rennie mcintosh

@karenbonner9997

11 ай бұрын

@@jacquelinemccann1493 it's always stuck with me

@dougaldouglas8842

11 ай бұрын

I always tell people, look up, look up and see history. So much is above our heads.

@lancslass8

11 ай бұрын

Great coffee lounge upstairs in the Central Methodist Church. Very impressive.

@lancslass8

11 ай бұрын

Edith Centre is still up for sale I believe.

The council should add palm trees into those planters. It would be in keeping with the beach / seaside setting. I would have thought that would have been the easiest and most immediately obvious thought for the council to come up with.

@jacquiquinn997

11 ай бұрын

I found blackpool shops ok for day to day stuff but if I wanted clothes or something nice I would jump on the train to Manchester

@lancslass8

11 ай бұрын

I cannot stand palm trees and they look absolutely dreadful after they have been subjected to 50 mph gail force winds.

I moved to Stafford from Blackpool 10 years ago and I’m pleasantly surprised that the shops in Blackpool haven’t much changed, unlike Stafford which is a ghost town shopping centre now. And don’t forget B and M originated in Cleveleys with the original store being at the back of the Legion Club!

I miss when that Poundland building was Price Busters. Was so much in there some weird and wonderful stuff. There isn't much in Blackpool anymore. Shame it's not like it used to be. Even Houndshill is not great. Keep up the good content mate. Love watching these videos

Did the Comady Club used to be Swans Night Club back in the 1980's? And did B&M back then have their only store at Cleveleys Bus station in those garages at the top.?

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Yes to Swans. The first B&M was indeed in Cleveleys.

I'm in sunny Queensland, Australia, and yet again, I feel so privileged to be here, after I see places like these. Thank you for sharing

@Robertonnz

11 ай бұрын

I bet you are - UK is crap

@PH-vv1ky

11 ай бұрын

Plenty of grim, depressing, horrid places in Australia too. Couldn't leave the place quick enough. It was a privilege to leave.

@ellismeah8110

11 ай бұрын

Shame about the socialist ,govt behaviour during COVID -19

@r.aschacht6461

11 ай бұрын

@PH-vv1ky Never have I ever seen anything like this in the video that comes close in Australia. Admittedly I haven't been to Western Australia but I have seen all the east coast.

@r.aschacht6461

11 ай бұрын

@@ellismeah8110 that's true

I always liked to have a shop around when I go to Blackpool because coming from a small town where the town centre is struggling BIG TIME i always found that i could get anything i wanted in Blackpool 👍

I think Blackpool is great for shopping. It was even better when pricebusters and bpm records were on the go. I'm sure hmv was up next to the houndshill in the eighties/ early nineties.

@audiocoffee

11 ай бұрын

pricebusters was awesome!! for every possible right and wrong reason! 😁

I love coming to Blackpool and going shopping while I am there .

Stephen, compared to our lousy "shopping centre" in Skelmersdale, Blackpool is a paradise.

@edwinturner1149

11 ай бұрын

nowt wrong with Poundland,can get all sorts of gear in there

always went in british home stores not been to blackpool for a long time know how much it has changed keeping parents safe with what has been going on the last years or so.

So good seeing you giving a shop tour around Blackpool felt like I was walking around 7 weekends ago, plan to come back end of September to see illuminations. I also remember my Mum used to watch your video back in 2020 / 21 she sadly passed away October 2021 ,glad i got to Blackpool weeks ago to see friends who live there , just a shame she didn't make it to see them and Blackpool 😢 Thank you always enjoy your tours video's

I love shopping in Blackpool when I'm visiting family for a few day, the town were I live the shops crap. We don't have half as many as you do.

Bit of a 'Race to the Bottom' as regards shopping in Blackpool (sadly). Anything that was good is gone. Anything that (still) is good shops wise wouldn't come 🙁

Thank you for giving a tour around the shops in Blackpool .sooo many shops nice to see 🙂👍

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😊

keep the videos coming steven you are doing a fantastic job you keep us all uptodate for people who cannot go to blackpool for some reason or another. you help bring back good old memories' and happy times.

That intro is really growing on me. I like it more and more. Maybe you could sell the rights to Blackpool Council to promote the town? 🤣😂

Hi everyone

Can you do something on the scammers on the prom who sell those rubber wristbands. Had one threaten me the other day. Delightful chap

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

They are a menace. I’ll see if I can do a video warning about them.

As a Londoner I appreciate how much easier and quieter it is shopping in Blackpool, esp off peak in the week. It's not the greatest or most exciting selection of shops but I like HMV, Next, Home Bargains , ( we don't have those down south). V good Waterstones there too.

@jasperwright4986

11 ай бұрын

Didn't know home bargains was only in the north, me

@bredaquirke7362

11 ай бұрын

I used to live in North West London for 15 years then Heartsfordshire just over the border of North London for 20 years, with easy access to London and Watford for shopping. Moved to Blackpool last August. Blackpool is good but not as good as some of the bigger London shopping areas or Watford. But Blackpool have the sea which I love, and is on the beautiful Fylde Coast. It is in easy access to lovely little towns such as Cleveleys, Fleetwood, Lytham and St Anne's. Fleetwood have a great indoor market and Preston is also a nice shopping area. But unfortunately online shopping have killed the high street. I think the original HMV store is still in Oxford St near Bond Street tube station, but not as good as the HMV Megastore that used to be near Oxford Circus and Virgin Megastore that used to be Tottenham Court Road. Ah! the glory days of shopping in the 80s and 90s. Xxx

Wow I enjoyed the Blackpool shopping video walking around the shops and houndshill shopping centre so thanks Stephen I enjoyed the video.

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

as someone with complicated dietary needs (pb vegan due to allergies) it's good that there are familiar supermarkets and the likes there - it means I can get something that won't have me testing out how unique Blackpools nhs is. 🤣 the last time I went into a subway, I asked the server to change gloves - you'd have thought I'd asked him to slit his own throat!! nah - just a six inch plain sub of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and black olives, ta. that's all, no need for anything else to die! 🤣🤣 Stockport is a contradiction inside a 'wtf'. don't have a sainsburys, we had an M&S but it closed, now we have an M&S food. Poundland was located in the BHS store for a while, then closed, but they're doing the building it was in up and they're going back in there when it's ready. we did have a $tarbuck$, but it went, now we've got a big one where Pizza Hut was - which means, we don't have a pizza hut. it's also in one of the best places in town to see rats running around - and yeah, I have a big soft spot for rats (used to have a pet rat many years ago. she was awesome!) and with the construction of the new bus station, I'm guessing the usual suspects will be taking on the retail units. lost count how many greggs there are, but, I'm over the fake bake and the vegan sausage roll!! everything there is on one level - unlike our asda. access by a three tier ramp, or one of two of the slowest lifts in the area - you can feel your food going past it's use by date exiting the store by lift. (after 4pm - no 2nd lift to ground level - because kids...) the other lift takes you to the lower level car park only. sucks if you're disabled - means a long trek to the side of the building and walk round to the front if you're getting a bus. no morrisons - unless you take a bus to one. tesco is a mare to get to on foot - no buses serve it. and to escape the town centre - you have to go uphill. all directions. foot/bike/car/bus/scooter. with hills to contend with, most people would welcome a change of scenery for shopping in Blackpool - all on one glorious level and no bloody climbing, slow lifts, or having to mug the security guard in asda to help you get out of the buidling because of that whole 'ground floor level' lift thing, and watch him as he takes your shopping trolley down a flight of stairs....... that 5h1t never gets old!!! (there are escalators, but none of them have been in action since 2020) so yeah, Blackpool wins. 👍 (you have arcades full of coin pushers - we don't. there - my guilty pleasure!!!)

I found the town has a good variety of shops to suit everyone Stephen. xx

That is some mighty fine looking concrete. Kudos to the Blackpool city council! Really enjoyed the tour. 👍

Very impressed with the assortment of shops in Blackpool. How about doing one in Preston please Stephen?

@michaelmage9627

11 ай бұрын

Hahahahahaha

What I find interesting wandering around Blackpool town centre is that although the facades and shop fronts at ground level frequently get retrofitted and updated as tastes change the upper floors do not. Look above ground level and you get an idea of what the buildings looked like when they were constructed and what their original purpose might have been. For example, Beaverbrooks used to be the Post Office. Go to the top floor of the car park on top of the Hounds Hill Shopping Centre (a.k.a. The Maul) and you can look down on much of the town centre to see how the buildings have evolved over time particularly the Winter Gardens. What is now the west entrance to the Winter Gardens was originally a grand house. The location on Bank Hey Street that is now the Comedy Station used to be a pub called the White Swan. Subterranean pubs are something of a rarity in UK. Due to one landlord having the bright idea of putting on strippers to attract the lunchtime crowd it became known for ever after locally as the Dirty Duck.

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for your input. I forgot to show the old post office sign above Beaverbrooks.

@edwinturner1149

11 ай бұрын

there is enough in blackpool for the average shopper,every town has it’s neysayers, folk in my town seem to think a primark is the b all and end all

Good video Steve, I have to say you have a brilliant shopping precent, so much better than Birmingham, you have much more better shops, Birmingham city centre has had it's day, we have lost so many shops, good on Blackpool for shops. All the best Steve......... Dave from Birmingham

I remember being taken for a holiday as a child by my mum and grandma, every morning I was taken to BHS cafe for a drink and a cake.

Blackpool is great for shopping brill video. Plus love the intro 😊

Never used to miss a trip to Blackpool every year would come down for a week or weekend what put of people was shit bb prices and remember going to pleasure beach and paying individual rides around £1.30 try that know far to expensive would love to come back must be 10 years since have been to Blackpool

Good point; Looking to view what you have to tell us, and brilliant introduction. We still are finding rainy days and no climate protesters lining the roads, and wonder why.

When I visit Blackpool for the day I have a routine, first thing I always do is spend a couple of hours looking around the town centre and having a light breakfast in one of the coffee houses. I then walk to lytham and back on the beach. Before heading home I usually have a look in tk max then go to McDonald's before boarding the coach back to Manchester. When I was last there in July I noticed tessuti was closing.

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

10 ай бұрын

Wow, it's a long walk to Lytham & back!

Had the breakfast in a pan in the compass cafe last time I was in Blackpool. Really nice breakfast would highly recommend

I'm originally from Manchester, now live in Blackpool. Unfortunately Blackpool has nothing to offer in the way of shops for me, much prefer Manchester, The Arndale and of course Trafford Centre.

I used to love going to Blackpool for bonny street market!!!

@ReeseJamPiece.

11 ай бұрын

Really? Everything there was incredibly cheap and kitsch. Mismatched sweet wrappers put together to make swear words and second-hand bootleg clothes. Blackpool used to have loads of independent shops and businesses and now it's a ghost town.

Thank you for the shopping tour. Helps me with my shopping plans when in Blackpool a few weeks from now

Hi mate been visiting Blackpool since 1974 and used to love the Woolworths and Lewisis shows how old I am lol will be visiting again 21 to 25 September annual weekend another great topical post the rock shop on bank hey street was there before the tower lol I’m kidding keep up the great work buddy

The old Debenhams is going to be Fraser's who are a major retail shop. It will also contain Flannels, which sells more upmarket clothing.

Excellent video Stephen I always shop In blackpool when I'm on holiday in blackpool

It's July and in the not distance past, these streets would be packed by now.

I’m afraid shopping just isn’t my thing it raises my blood pressure no end, much prefer the pubs and bars! Great video as always though!

Love the intro Stephen for this video abit of wizardry with the editing

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Thanks.

Very good video. My wife and I have had quite a few holidays in Blackpool and found the shopping center has everything you want.

I heard today from a pretty reliable source that the lease on the M&S store is coming up soon and thery are not renewing. May be moving to another premises or like Bolton shutting down completely.

Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always I love the shops in Blackpool we don't have many here so it's a treat for me to shop when I'm down I have to go further afield for the good shops have a great evening xx

Hi Stephen, unfortunately since the fire in the nail bar next to the the British Heart Foundation furniture shop last January 2023. British Heart Foundation furniture shop remains closed. A member of staff in the smaller British Heart charity shop told me that it's unlikely that it will reopen. If you look closely you'll see damage from the fire and Christmas decorations still up. Shame, it was a lovely furniture shop where I got some nice pieces of furniture from.

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Yes it was a nice shop that. I went in there myself a few times.

Very similar to shopping malls here in Norwich - you could be in any town!

Great video. Will be there in October, will keep a look out for you. Keep up the good work

Hi Stephen, never been to Blackpool shopping I've always gone for the entertainment and to be honest I do most of my shopping online these days. Shopping centre looks good and is very clean. Sad to see all the empty shops but with the business rates I'm not surprised. M+S are closing some of their smaller outlets down in some areas and concentrating on their food outlets. Never heard of Heron Foods! Thanks again for the video I appreciate the time it takes you. 😊😊😊

@tracysmith245

11 ай бұрын

they shut m&s in stoke hanley not worth going anymore empty shopping centre only go when i have to dire

Had fish and chips in the Sea restaurant they were yummy. I think Blackpool has a really nice shopping centre. When’s the new multi complex cinema opening.

I remember going to Lewis's in Glasgow Argyle Street when it was there to see the window display at Christmas,it was fantastic, but it closed and turned into Debenhams which also closed a while ago.

great video as always, so informative, keep up the good work m8!

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Hi Stephen, I miss BHS had some nice gifts at Christmas time too .

Love the shops in blackpool especially primark always get a bargain thanks for video stephen

thanks Stephen for another great video I love to walk around the shop in Blackpool and pick up a bargain 😊

Love hounds hill for shopping, i like leeds for shopping 🛍 its good , ty Stephen for taking us round the shops 😊 x

Good to have a wander around the shops, one of my favourite shops is Sticky Chocolate Ltd on the promenade, the fudge is lovely. I love little independent shops, sadly there aren't many around in towns and cities these days. Thank you Stephen, great video as always xx

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Moonage xx

Hi Stephen loved your trees video.and shops in your latest video look great.i live in East London and yes we have trees and shops.but yours all looks so clean and smart..We come to Blackpool as much as we can. And like yourself we visit all the backstreets and see both sides.we are not beermonsters as such.but we love stopping off for a drink and a chat with the locals.

Abingdon Street Market is now a hip and trendy street food hall (like the old food courts but with independent traders instead of big chains and lots of people with beards and tattoos wearing hats indoors) that all towns seem to be getting now, I think there's another sort of place planned for south shore. We have about 6 of the things here in Manchester now with more planned. All the rage. Get with it grandad 😂

Interesting and informative, Stephen👏. Blackpool has no shortage of shops that's for sure😊

Hi Stephen, another good video. We go in Heron and Home Bargains on Talbot Road as well as lots of the other shops. The shopping centre is good too. Ps, mustn’t forget Poundland.xxxx

Love your new intro Stephen 👍 and love shopping in Blackpool we were there last month and enjoyed going through Houndshill and all the other outer shops but it’s not like it use to be and I remember Lewis’s my cousin use to work there it was a lovely shop, Thanks for another good video and take care 😁 until next time, Pauline from Blackpool living in Canada 🍁

That boarded up building on Church St., that used to be cinema back in the day....

@NeilRedburn

11 ай бұрын

The Tatler News Theatre it was called...closed early 50's

In Blackpool in the era of the department store (1960s), there was R.H.O. Hills, which had a music department with a piano, before you bought sheet music, they'd play it for you. You could buy a little tin of gramophone needles. Times change rapidly.

Hi Steven glad the chicken shop is still open the best barbie food you will ever taste. Remember woollies also C and A for clothes. Lewis's expensive perfume designer clothes also remember Vernon Humpriges beside the winter gardens.

Appreciate the tour stephen 🙏 Blackpool seems to be alright for shopping.

I'll call them Beer Monsters in future , i like that x

So apparently the answer is no to the original proposition, shopping in Blackpool is the same as any other large town or small city in England, the same old chain stores. Even modern shopping centres, architecturally, look the same. Exception in Blackpool being that old Woolworths store, what a proud old building now slumming it as a Poundland, J D Sport and Wetherspoons. But I suppose at least it's in use! Anyway interesting video so thanks.

I remember the blue honeycomb cladding on Lewis’s. But no building’s cladding could beat the Fine Fare near to North Station (Wilko’s).

Hi Stephen. again a very interesting video. I love coming to Blackpool when I am in England. You did say Deichmann correctly. I like the shops in Blackpool. Still have got Woolworth in Germany. Quite a few here in Berlin. Love the introduction to your videos. You are doing a fantastic job. Really professional. See you in your next video. ❤️❤️❤️👍

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Mildred.

nice to see some dry weather never stopped raining for days in the northeast

Haven't been to Blackpool for years but it seems really calm and nice to shop in. Like the muffin shop.

The concrete pots used to have plants in them but they were always being destroyed by drunks so they gave up replacing them

@ianfrench1577

11 ай бұрын

The solution to that is really tall cordyline palms

I will found out the beginning of September I'm there for five days for my 60th birthday. Love watching your videos steve 👍👍

I love coming to Blackpool especially Sainsbury’s brilliant for clothes great choice yours is massive a brilliant Primark you have bigger shops than we have cannot wait for Wilko to open don’t mention greggs 🤣🤣 don’t understand those pots filled with cement !!!! What are they doing ? great video till the next one 😊

Our main post office in Glasgow city centre closed years ago too, some of the older buildings are fantastic detail and made to last

@elainethomson5826

11 ай бұрын

I always loved the Abingdon market shame it’s closed

Hi Steve I think Blackpool is Great for shopping I do miss the outdoor Market Great video mate thanks

Good video! You really need to do a video about Abingdon Street Market. I was in there a few weeks ago and the food was fantastic. One of the better things to happen to the centre of Blackpool for a while. Not a fan of it being cashless but that's the way of world these days.

Enjoyed the vlog, Steve, as always. Looks exactly like the mall nr where I live, the Derbion in Derby: soul-less, characterless, homogenised. Sad 'cos there are loads of long-established, independent, and family-run shops just a 5 or 10min walk away. A quick question, pal: how the **** do you manage to avoid getting collared by security while filming so effortlessly?!? It's impressive! 👍

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

DJI Osmo Pocket Camera 📷

Nice to see Blackpool investing it's money into trams to reduce the poison from car exhausts.

Been into Poundland and Primark every time I go to Blackpool for a holiday. Back for the illuminations too so be going into buy more stuff

That poundland shop costs me a fortune when I shop there. 💷💷 🤪

We come all the time to Blackpool from Wrexham to Tesco as it's the only store in England or Wales where we can buy Manx butter that my family and I love.

Loving the new intro from your last few videos nice job.

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad you like it

Preston is definitely worth going to as well , we get the bus from Blackpool to Preston it makes a good day out .

Blackpool has its sights but oh it’s definitely better than Preston, it actually looks a warzone in some parts 😂

I still find it rather shocking that Blackpool doesn't have a WH Smith.

have you ever thought of performing a cover of 'Walk on the Wild Side' with people & sights of Blackpool as the accompanying video?

@RadioJonophone

11 ай бұрын

I can just imagine Stephen dancing to the Lou Reed beat, in fishnet and tutu, flashing his beard under an immense blond wig. Holly came from Miami, F.L.A. Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey, babe Take a walk on the wild side" Said, "Hey, honey Take a walk on the wild side"

Thank you Stephen .👍👍

I so agree with you with the filling of of the old planters with concrete! HORRIBLE! Why not just take them away! Overall I love Blackpool and will be there for the airshow!

Blackpool for me is about a weekend away or perhaps a week's holiday. Don't get me wrong if the weather is dismal then my wife and I do go in and out of shops but not always to purchase anything. Good one as always. 😊👍

There is a nice Poundland herein foods it's ok Blackpool good video as usual

Yes, we never see Boots busy there. Could be going. Put trees in those concrete planters.

Abingdon Barbecue is a cracking little place. Great food. 😊

Used to come Christmas shopping with my girlfriend she always said you could find things in Blackpool you would not find anywhere else

hi Steven great video the other side to the abingdon Street Market his a big new food hall and bars in side

Did see that Frasers have signed to take the old Debenhams in the Houndshill.Will mean Sports Direct will move from the upstairs of the Woolworths building and become part of the new store.

I miss the old shops. There are very few of them left. I loved the markets. But I still love Blackpool.

Proper old school Beer Monster!

Who remembers the Blackpool auction shop scam...? How the scam worked, was to reel people inside the doors at a certain time, thinking they would get a playstation or perfume etc etc.. for £5 upwards, the shop would be packed with willing people participating, the auction would start & a few planted people in the audience would look like it's a bargain, most people would part with £30+ & end up with a bag which you wasn't allowed to open till the end... & When you did you had about £5 worth of goods in the bag... & Everyone was hurried out of the doors at the end, baseball bats would often come out from the auctioneer's (scammers) if anyone complained... This happened not just in Blackpool but up & down the UK in the early to mid 90s, & many people got conned unfortunately.. I guess the saying "if it's too good to be true, it usually is!" Great vlog as always Stephen 👍

@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I remember seeing one of those. It was just across from Coral Island, next to the Castle Pub.

@TelThePower

11 ай бұрын

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool I went to one Stephen, luckily although I was quite young, early 20s I think it was the year the Blackpool tower was painted gold... I could see through the quite sophisticated scam, but I never forget an old lady nearly in tears outside after being scammed of her money, never forget it.. & yes everyone was pushed out of the store as fast as possible.

@bredaquirke7362

11 ай бұрын

I almost got cough out in Oxford Street London, I paid £50 for a camera but managed to swap it for a set of sauspans that I was able to give as a wedding present.