Until you do something like this,no amount of Imagination can ever recreate these scenes.Seeing them like our past relatives did.Cheers Darren for all the hard work you put into your videos.💌😃

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2 жыл бұрын

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Architecture of the past is far more beautiful than it is today.

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2 жыл бұрын

Sure is

One of my favourite parts of the series is the amazing then and now transitions... absolutely captivating and gives it the WOW factor ☺️

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2 жыл бұрын

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@gmp3809

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Spot on !!!

Brilliantly done. The “fades” are fantastic. What a shame we have lost such fantastic buildings only to be replaced with drab-looking ones. Another fabulous video Darren, thank you.

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2 жыл бұрын

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These time fade things are always insanely fascinating! It's like I'm holding my breath as they fade haha 👌🏻👏🏻

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2 жыл бұрын

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at least they kept the trams! awesome transitions there, Darren

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The architecture is superior back in the past than it is today. So much lost. I would have loved to have gone on that wheel! I bet you would have too!! Stunning video Darren as always.

Love how how he puts these scenes together as well as the spooky music 👍

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2 жыл бұрын

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Love this Darren! 😀

Far more stunning & breathtaking back in the day….

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Outstanding work! It makes me sad watching these knowing what my council has done to this town. Building after building are coming down weekly here to put up more empty buildings that they can't fill and/or car parks.

@dancedecker

2 жыл бұрын

Whilst I understand what you say, towns, all towns, but especially tourist led ones, have to evolve or they die. Has Blackpool Council always got it right? Absolutely not, but for example, did you know that had Blackpool Council not bought the Tower and Winter Gardens/Opera House when they did and committed to conserving and restoring them, which they have most certainly done and continue to do so, at least seventy percent of the Winter Gardens was earmarked for demolition to make way for a shiny nee conference centre. One has now successfully been built without touching an inch of this stunning building and is bringing valuable conference trade back, so whilst I won't say the council is perfect, compared to what could have gone by now without them, I for one say they are doing a fair to good job. Also Blackpool has the ONLY UK tramway where the old trams can run along with the new. That was a demand of the upgrade being part funded by the council. Another excellent decision I'd suggest So whilst far from saying they got it all spot on, where and when it REALLY matters, I'd suggest that overall, they do better than most.

@dank4815

2 жыл бұрын

@@dancedecker Do you live here?

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2 жыл бұрын

@@dank4815 Yes I do

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2 жыл бұрын

@@dancedecker so you'll know about how rundown they have let Central drive become. You'll know about the benches in the middle of a main road of westcliffe drive in Layton. You'll know about how rundown Waterloo road and lython road is. They have done more bad than good in my opinion.

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@@dank4815 Yes, I know all of those. Central Drive has been as it is for decades. At least forty years if not more. But now at last, the new £330 million Blackpool Central project that is underway right now, will hopefully go someway to solving that. So every stripe of political colour has failed that area, until now. Waterloo and Lytham Road similarly and as for the benches in Layton, I've seen people picnicking on them, so that's a new angle on enjoying Layton I'd say. And yes, you are absolutely entitled to your opinion. You are also entitled to be WRONG!! Lol.

One of the best "Then and Now," top notch. At times I think if I could go back in time, would it be better? There was good and bad back then just as now. Now if we could take the good from the past and mix it with the good of today, now that would be a place to be. The 3:53 image is amazing. Darren, another great watch.

Great video a lot of time spent putting this together. The haunting music suited this perfectly

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Fascinating, loved this!

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Really good channel this mate , keep it up 👍

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As a local I cannot thank you enough for these images Darren. Love the music too. Almost ethereal when viewing. Really appreciate all your work.

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what an awesome recolletion darren

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2 жыл бұрын

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Awesome

Excellent video Darren!

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Andreas's favourite kind of video's!

This is why your channel is one of the best. I love the fade ins.

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The comparisons of the two scenes each time is totally remarkable Darren. Me and my Mrs are stunned by how you produce films like these. Many thanks for this showing. Love to know what the background music is, it's so calming.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you! The music I use is normally in the video description if it's online.

A whole episode of photo fades, absolutely fantastic and brilliantly done as always.

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2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Pete. I've done a few of these whole episodes now.

Superb work with the editing, its great to see how it has changed from then to now, a lot of great looking buildings now long gone old buildings have a style and a character that modern buildings do not .

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This is wonderfulli done. Great juxtaposition with well chosen background Music. Thank you Darren Ich bin wieder zurück!🤭

A lovely tour of the past and present.

I love videos like this. It's always so cool to see what has basically stayed the same and what has disappeared forever!

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interesting Daz. Nice stinky bridges in this heat

Brilliant fades Darren !

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A nice walk back in time. Thanks buddy!

Cheers for another cracking video. Your 'fade ins' are outstanding. They really give you a sense of how it was and what has been lost forever. All the best R😁😁

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2 жыл бұрын

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Cracking video as ever Darren. My mum's side of the family are from Blackpool and I've always loved the place when I go up. We're due up in October and as I'd recently found a business card in my late mum's possessions for the The Blue Parrot Restaurant in Topping Street, were going to see what's occupying the premises now, about 90 years later - ! 😁

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2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Simon. Good luck

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant excellent video well done 👍

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2 жыл бұрын

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Hello Darren I have just watched the video again thank you very much and cheers Darren you really work hard take care and cool x

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Really enjoyed that Darren but did miss you talking. Thanks for the share. Please stay safe and take care

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

You missed me talking lol. Said nobody ever.

@lindamccaughey6669

2 жыл бұрын

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Cheers Darren another awesome series by you. Actually thought of you & the series as I delivered 32 boxes of leaflet's there today. 3 problems 1st which entrance, 2nd the heat & lastly Blackpool airshow. Twas bloody hot slow going lol. Keep up the mint fella , cheers Ken

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2 жыл бұрын

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Simply masterful work, Darren! 1🧐/1🧐

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2 жыл бұрын

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👍👍👍👍👍 five star production from the master Darren. The one memorable image for me was off the packed out beach.....those were the golden age. A full week in a boarding house, no day trips back then. The Lancashire mill towns decamping there on their 'Wakes Week' in turn. Anyone else remember the Wakes Weeks tradition? The dragon landladies of the boarding houses. After breakfast everyone had to leave and couldn't return until 6pm ish. Usually just a large jug of hot water per room per family in the morning. Oh dammed so much social history!!! Anyway cheers DougT in Mancs

Great video Darren..Just one picture is incorrect the Palantine Building is the block before the old Woolworth building.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I wasn't sure about that one.

Fabulous !

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You are a true investigative historian, bringing the wonderful industrial age back to modern times. I have had a good few nights out in Blackpool, good town, good people .By the way, I've ordered my B.R. t-shirt, all of you guys should do the same man. Support this channel as much as possible. The amount of time and effort in putting these vids together is just incredible. The dedication and love for the subject matter is inspirational. Compared to most of the other shite content out there, this is a real jewel.

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2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gabrielle. I appreciate that

The beaches were packed, views of yesteryears are always interesting. TY

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Once again Darren you own it,as for the olimpia I spent my child hood in there & loved it, loved this .

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Superb thank you

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My favourite as ever is the great wheel. Fantastic fade ins.

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Definitely a vast improvement, far cleaner, more presentable, and spacious. But…. Not the same character or buzz. Fabulous Darren. A masterpiece in filming.

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Hi another fantastic video well done and keep up the great work and I've got my partner watching ur videos too

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2 жыл бұрын

Thanks James

@jamesthornber6991

2 жыл бұрын

Ur very welcome mate any time

Hello Darren how are you great vidio and very interested it brings back memories for me and my mum and dad especially the fair ground in winter gardens it would have been good to see you on the vidio but I understand its just been so hot I think thunderstorms on the way take care Darren stay cool and safe from Lynn xx

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lynn. This was filmed ages ago. I was in all the others, not needed in this one lol

brilliant

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Really interesting how things have changed over the years, new buildings etc. Will you do another Winter Gardens series as I enjoyed the last one. I'd like to do a video inside the Winter Gardens for my channel, not sure who to email about it lol. Photos were great to look at.

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2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Peter. I'll do more if there's anything left to do. But I think I have covered it all

Absolutely brilliant once again Darren , especially the before and after / then and now images . 👏 I

@christianhalstead6063

2 жыл бұрын

I think the Palatine Hotel was one block further south than you placed it though . Where that big black monstrosity is not where the old Woolworths building is . Forgive my pedanticness .

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2 жыл бұрын

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Beautiful. Well put together. Love it x👍

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Absolutely love it. Fantastic cinimatography (did I spell that right lol). Its a bloomin shame that the proper winter gardens are lost forever. Now you have to do this with the North Pier. I know they ahave kept a little of it original but they have modernised so much of it. x

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2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Clare

Was there again today watching air show

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2 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed

Most like to visit blackpool it's on the billboard but if the rich investors of its past didnt travel outwards from it they wouldn't have discovered the ferris wheel, winter garden coaster or the tower innovations from world wide where applied to that golden mile.

Amazing how the building has developed . Not sure if it was always for the best. Saying that would so much had survived had it not changed .

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Brilliant work with this entire series. I've been in so many of the rooms, but never looked into how the Winter Gardens came to be what it is now. I do think that covering the stunning exterior of the Horseshoe & Pavilion with the Olympia 1:40 was a terrible decision. It looks dreadful. Such a shame!

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I feel like sometimes modernisation isn’t a good thing, those old photos of the area were beautiful

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Battersea Funfair and Big Dipper location would be great. Sadly there were deaths, but we cannot hide history and its dimise.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I have that on my last to do. Thanks

Darren, at 4:02 the view of the side of the building reminds me of Pudsey Swimming baths. Is this a common style for the era or is there a link?? (Apols, I often have dejavue moments 🤣)

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I think they were just typical architecture styles back then.

Please tell me you are doing the tower next

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Fingers crossed

Where’s my time machine….

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

Can I come?

We sure know how to destroy grace and beauty

So sad that businessmen used to have ambition for places outside of London. At the moment I feel like there is this irreversible Chav culture that infects nearly all areas of the UK.

@AdventureMe

2 жыл бұрын

I get you

From the video description - "Have you ever wondered what London's famous landmarks looked like over 100 years ago? " Guess Blackpool moved at some point in the past for cheaper real estate prices 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Forgot to say: Just changed from a visitor to a supporter, long overdue....

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2 жыл бұрын

AHH thanks Mike. Much appreciated

For me the entire 'Olympia Fairground' section should be demolished. It's an ugly building inside and out. Better as gardens....

what a great video