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What a magnificent film of a place which has fascinated me since childhood. I never saw the Fun-house in its original Joe Emberton splendour, but if anyone had told me that it overlapped in time with the old Casino, I would never have believed it, Were 'talkies' at the Winter Gardens still a 'draw' in '36? I'm sure we had all seen them by then! Thanks again for this gem.

Utterly amazing movie. Thank you!

Little obesity

Not a mobile phone in sight..no drunks..everyone smart....looks superb....

GREAT VIDEO

Incredible footage - the earliest I’ve seen of the Nash!! 😮 Thanks!

Brilliant. Thanks for this. I wonder what AI enhancement could do for this? Always amazes me how fit and well dressed everyone looks. Also sadness though. Did the young men pictured survive the war? Also the young children. Would have grown up and had families and have now died. Or an I being a morbid 70yr old? Anyway I love Blackpool and this film was fascinating. Thanks again.

Glorious!!! ❤

Oh wow absolutely loved watching this.ty for sharing 👍

Is. This the 1st pov on a roller coaster??

i,ve noticed here in 1936, how well dressed everyone is, & today in 2023 everyone goes around like tramps. Compared to how they,re dress here,

This is AMAZING footage, feel like i could instantly step back in time. North pier looks unchanged!

Truly incredible

No scallies in this footage !!!

THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN BORN BUT OUR CAR WAS LIKE THOSE X HA HA

Up here now on holiday. Its great to think and see who came before all those years ago, plus, a few years later during ww2, many of those people would be dead.

The Heyday of Blackpool and for someone who lived there it is surreal to see the most iconic sites back in 1936, 29 years before I was even born. Closest thing to time travel. Imagine bringing this to life in a 3 d walkable virtual studio or something

I should think that most of those people in this film would have been working class and yet all so smartly turned out taking pride in their appearance. I had a drive through Blackpool last year on the way to visit a friend in Lytham, very different now.

Proper travelling funfairs of that period 60s and 70s these days they’ve turned into travelling theme parks with that stupid music also turning like American amusement, parks, rubbish. Pleased to say that I worked with the proper funfairs of the past for the best travelling funfair ever run by Anthony Harris and family pat Collins.

When you watch footage like this showing North pier still with its jetty, the Palace Ball room with the turrets topped with its flags, a glimse of the Palletine Hotel and Central Station from the Tower, the well dressed people and the air of wellbeing it generated, it makes you realize what a rif raf filled desperate Town Blackpool has become. My daily drive home from work is down the prom to St Annes and for the life of me can't understand why it is still popular. Its grim in places. A far cry from this film.

When the metropole hotel was a posh hotel

Absolutely brilliant Simon

At 5:39 is that Church Street? Or the streets where Hounds Hill is now?

What did nobody speak to each other in the 1930s haha . How differently things are now. Quite prefer this quieter one. More decency I guess haha.

And George Formby would go there playing his ukulele singing with my little stick of Blackpool rock. Wonderful to see hard working people enjoying themselves. Thank you for the video Simon I really enjoyed it sir.

Imagine carrying big massive camera in the rollercoaster 😂

Enjoyed this, as a child in the fifties, my dad took us to Blackpool every year for 7 years running. I wonder if the little girl feeding the pigeons is still alive,probably would be around 90 yeras old now.

It's tragic what's happened to blackpool now I put the blame on the local authorities who don't seem to care about it the local residents try too improve it but they are just pissing in the wind absolute shame

Thank you so much, that was a real treat to watch.

this is so amusing to watch. Blackpool has always been my favourite area in Lancashire and seeing how many happy faces there are here

Not one chip wrapper blowing in the wind. Marvellous

Brilliant film. My dad would have been 15 then and would have enjoyed this so much as your dad looks to be doing. Your Grandad must have been a great guy.

60s Rides: Nice couple of children's roundabouts, Hrubetz Upright Paratrooper, Eli Bridge Twist, Lusse Big Wheel (I think), 80s Rides: Modern Products Ladybird Ride, Children's Tea Cup ride, Eli Bridge Twist, Bertazzon "Vienna" dodgem cars, 90s Rides: Children's mini wheel, Children's Roundabout, Children's Formula 1 track ride, Lovely video :)

People having fun...getting on for Nearly 100 years ago..A World War just 3 years away....Every One seems dressed up.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😎

Absolutely wonderful . Thank you! X

During war time

Real fun fairs

Thank you.Enjoyed the video but is it really a clown that’s laughing I thought it was a sailor in a Perspex case? Born in 1932 and can remember the style of dress. We were poor but my Dad had a Bowler hat a Trilby and a Cap.My Mother had a Fox fur which she wore on high days and holidays. Can’t remember there being so many cars but remember the Landaus. More people than I recall but then I was just a nipper. A pity those days are past. During the war I can remember large pieces of timber criss crossed on the beach so that the enemy Couldn’t land there. My cousins were evacuated to Blackpool I was always envious! Yes a marked deterioration and the whole place has lost its character. The people of today have no respect. I wonder if the women obviously drunk ever got any “ fucking food she was calling out for in a loud voice “ during one of earlier lockdowns. It was late end everyone had been turned out the pubs and diners. Yes I guess I was lucky having spent my annual holiday in Blackpool whilst a child. Stayed in a boarding houses which didn’t always have the promised view of the sea that is unless you put your head out of the window straining and looking to the left then you might be lucky. An early morning walk down to the prom before returning to our digs for breakfast. The lovely smell of bacon cooking on the way back. Every boarding house had a table laid for breakfast complete with white tablecloth and condiments including HP sauce in the window. I think the rot set in initially when the boarding houses became self catering or b&b’s. Live in NZ now and no chance of returning so I rely on LeRoys videos. To end on a good bit of news. Blackpool was voted to have the 3rd best beach in the UK the other day! Bye Keep Well. J

Wow ! what a great piece of Blackpool heritage !

Arghh the fair😀

Simon, could we speak please about this footage being used in a Blackpool documentary please? A very uplifting piece! DIANNEC1985@HOTMAIL.CO.UK Thanks!

If it was possible to communicate with the past, what great stories they could tell.

Thank you for sharing !

Blackpool's gone to the dogs

Wow, the greatest generation of Brits ever.

Only us British could ride down the helter-skelter with such dignity and poi's

All as happy as Larry and proud as punch 👍despite being in the middle of WW2

7:30 sounds exactly like the rollercoaster tycoon sound effect.

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I’d love to time travel back for a week or two.....my mum would have been ten then...but she lived so much further down the coastline in Ramsgate. ...she is still alive and lives with us... and was fascinated watching this.