7 QUOTES WITH «BLACKPOOL»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
Blackpool.
I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.
I played in the Premier League for Blackpool and earned the right to go to a club like Liverpool.
Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.
Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.
My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.
I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLACKPOOL»
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Blackpool in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Blackpool and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This incomparable volume includes Emily's verse from Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell as well as 200 works collected from various manuscript sources after her death in 1848.
For five millennia Harry Blackpool has been the agent for all Evil on Earth, while Rachel Parrish has represented Good.
Pat Mancini is the uncrowned Queen of Blackpool, running her enormous seafront hotel with such loving care and attention to detail that she is the talk of the town.
Milton Bolzendahl proudly declares he holds no awards, prizes nor accolades for his dancing acumen but has devoted many hours, months and years slugging it out on the battlefields of ballrooms as a social dancer and sometimes (klutzy) ...
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Mad for It: From
Blackpool to Barcelona: Football's Greatest ...
These are football matches that are far more than a game. Often a microcosm of life in a city, there are countless rivalries between clubs which are steeped in a historical enmity based on class, religion, politics, envy or philosophy.
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The
Blackpool Highflyer
he said at last: 'Run by crooks, and should be nationalised.' 'And as to Blackpool
and wakes and holidays, and so on?' 'Blackpool?' he said. 'Well, I don't call that a
very worthy holiday place. The working people go there and what happens?
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Worktowners at
Blackpool: Mass-Observation and Popular ...
17 SEX' The couple is the preponderant Blackpool unit. [And sex is a dominant
theme of the holiday-maker. But we must again separate the image from the
reality.] We have seen how the holiday-maker copes with the workless, payless
week ...
Gary Cross, Professor of History Gary Cross, 2005
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Blackpool: A Sketch of Its Rise and Growth, 1592-1792 (1903)
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
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Mad for it: From
Blackpool to Barcelona: Football’s Greatest ...
From the Celtic–Rangers rivalry and Tyneside derby to the biggest global clashes from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, journalist Andy Mitten uses the fans' own words and stories to illuminate the conflicts, tensions, histories and culture ...
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Walsh's Guide to
Blackpool, Fleetwood, etc
Since the opening of the branch of railway from Blackpool to the main line at
Poulton, he has opened a new road extending from near Little Layton, to the
Railway Station, and which is now the principal entrance, eastward, to the town.
J. WALSH (Publisher, of Blackpool.), 1855
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLACKPOOL»
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Blackpool is used in the context of the following news items.
Fans to reveal Pool takeover plans
Steve Rowland, chairman of BST, said: “BST's bid to buy Blackpool FC from the Oyston family is a serious and substantive proposal, which we ... «Blackpool Gazette, Jul 15»
Blackpool hotels enjoy May tourism boom
With two bank holiday weekends and marked increases in domestic tourism, Blackpool saw occupancy levels spike to 75.4 per cent . «Lancashire Evening Post, Jul 15»
Hot Ice: the sensational skaters of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach
Between engagements at the Manchester international festival, I nipped over to Blackpool – insofar as anyone can nip on one of those sluggish ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Blackpool hotel owners were making hay this May
But hoteliers in Blackpool warned that the sky high figures were to do with several events coinciding and that June's figures were likely to be ... «Blackpool Gazette, Jul 15»
Syndicate nightclub demolition delays cost Blackpool Council £116k
Alan Cavill, assistant chief executive at Blackpool Council, said: “The overspend is not on the cost of the demolition. “The reason is that the site ... «Blackpool Gazette, Jul 15»
'Help pupils take leap to secondary'
Coun John Jones, cabinet member on Blackpool Council with responsibility for education, told the Resilient Communities Scrutiny Committee ... «Blackpool Gazette, Jul 15»
Year old Blackpool care firm in national award win
Baxter Life Care have been running for just over a year having been given a leg up by Blackpool Council's Get Started service. «Blackpool Gazette, Jul 15»
Heart attack man – 'I owe my life to them'
For when Malcolm Squires, 61, of Peter Street, Blackpool, began feeling ill two weeks ago, he was in the entrance of Blackpool Victoria ... «Blackpool Gazette, Jul 15»
Big-hearted pupils help kidney charity
Little Vince Hitchmough joined his schoolmates for a fun day at Holy Family Primary School, Blackpool, to raise money for charity Kidneys For ... «Blackpool Gazette, Jul 15»
Freckleton vicar still suspect in murder probe
Blackpool 5-day weather forecast. CloseX. Tuesday 7 Jul. Light showers. Temp. High 19°c. Low 14°c. Wind. From West. Speed 22 mph. «Blackpool Gazette, Jul 15»
