Let’s start with the nice things about Blackpool. The Blackpool Tower is lovely. Great architecture, wonderful decor, stunning views from the tower’s observation deck.

The Blackpool Tower Ballroom was particularly nice and surprisingly large inside. It was nice to be able to wander about freely and enjoy people partaking in tea or dancing.

Blackpool’s got a pier, which was pretty basic but you’ll not find me saying a bad word about piers as I’m a bit of a fan of piers. Why not see for yourself by checking out other piers I’ve liked?

It also had some lovely trams that ran at night, lit up, very pretty.

The rest of Blackpool was a shithole.

This is not to say that Blackpool didn’t have some nice elements. It’s by the sea, and we like the sea. This photo’s taken from along the pier, and we like piers. We went up the famous tower and into the ballroom, and had a lovely time there.

It’s just Blackpool itself. It was awful. We like faded glory to an extent. It felt more like faded misery.

The original photo on that post was a highly-processed one, and not the sort of thing I typically post in travel write-ups these days. This is more of a conventional edit with simple adjustments for the lens distortion and straightening, removal of sensor dirt, then reduction of noise from the older camera. Exposure corrected and shadows brightened for detail, then a little bit of saturation boost to make it slightly less dreary.