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Ah another look at the shots and yes i can see the pavement depth from the railings to the trams has shrunk. So you can play on the beach when the tide is in or as in earlier posts if you dont like the water i suppose. I lived there for ten years and that area would have throngs of people with ice creams and candy floss weaving in and out amongst the deckchairs which where stored along there. Quite mental shots of the shelters up at Cleveleys, i slept up that way from Gynn to Fleetwood in my homeless days and cant imagine sleeping in the new ones, bit draughty in the winter i imagine but all town councils have anti-homeless policies to keep you on the move these days. Apart from the tramps in Blackpool town centre, Pete the dockerman and Smelly Sid (not to his face) and a few old ex sea dogs up in the Fleetwood area the homeless population was small, Fleetwood had the only soup kitchen which was really the Seamans Mission, luckily my youth swung my entry on the times i visited it, usually in the winter. A mug of tea with a bowl of soup and a wedge of bread in the company of some grey haired sea dogs, such luxuries and now we have sand on the promenade, what progress they have made.