Comments on: Blackpool Tower

By: Stankovic

Stankovic — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:49:13 +0000

Central and Northern pier both erased!

http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/blackpool/ly3.htm

By: Stankovic

Stankovic — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:39:13 +0000

North Pier?? Where is it??

It’s got the stub of it, two junctions down

By: James

James — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:28:12 +0000

Louis,

Yup, that’s the same Blackpool. It looks very driech this morning though!

By: Louis

Louis — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:24:36 +0000

heres a cool webcam on the top of the tower, i think. Don’t rip into me if i’m wrong please northern git! im from new zealand. http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/webcam/index.shtml

By: Parker

Parker — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:24:02 +0000

Well, I’m shamed.

Actually, it looks like a pretty cool place! If I ever make it over to that side of the pond, it’s definitely one destination I’ll have to check out! More interesting to me than Buckingham Palace, anyway.

And that’s why I love Google Sightseeing.

By: northern git

northern git — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:42:46 +0000

Blackpool Tower averages 1.2 million visitors a year!
Isn’t that a larger amount than US citizens who hold a passport? You said it Parker – uncultured!
Seriously though Blackpool is an uniquely British experience and if American tourists can drag themselves away from London for a day they could do no better than visit Blackpool. If you have any culture at all they remove it from you at the city limits!
It is like Altantic City and Las Vegas crossed with The Bronx and Compton only with less sophistication and more crime.
Saying all that i absolutely love the place (as do 6 million other people who visit every year!)

By: Parker

Parker — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:27:06 +0000

*blush*

Pardon me. I guess I’m just uncultured. I had never heard of it, anyway, living over here in the USA. And I just assumed that if it took this long to make it onto Google Sightseeing, since all the really popular stuff was quickly spotted months ago, that it must be relatively obscure. Nothing personal.

By: Huw

Huw — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:44:57 +0000

Blackpool Tower obscure? I don’t think so..

By: Parker

Parker — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:30:46 +0000

I had never heard of the Blackpool Tower until I read this post.

Now, by a very surprising coincedence, I also found an image taken at this very tower on my favorite photoblog, Chromasia. It’s a shot of the “walk of faith” and really conveys the experience of being up there. Here’s a link…

http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/0602012053_clean.php

I just thought it was weird that two blogs I read would focus on the same obscure tower in the same day. The stars must all be in alignment, or something.

By: northern git

northern git — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:17:55 +0000

WTF? Where have they gone? I was there on Sunday and they were certainly there then!
They look like they have been crudely airbrushed out but only the pier part and not the landside structure.
Sod mysterious flying globes and electronic circuits at the bottom of lakes this is the real mystery. We demand to be told where our piers are!