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Originally Posted by garinda
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Re: the seaside resorts.
Besides mentioning the date Bolton won the first F.A. Cup at Wembley, I was refering to a time pre-workers rights, and before holiday entitlements were given, which directly gave rise to the resorts on the coast.
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ignoring the sarcasm about "t'cole ole" and the year Bolton won the first FA Cup , the point I was trying to make was .... I find it a bit odd that Blackpool Tower opened to the public in May 1894 , obviously a leisure market had been seen a few years earlier to set up such a project. Yet at the same time the folks who un-shackled the great un-washed from years of exploitation ( think thats one of the Labour Party's claims to the nations history) didn't put any candidates up for election till the following year
" In the 1895 general election, the Independent Labour Party put up 28 candidates but won only 44,325 votes. Keir Hardie, the leader of the party, believed that to obtain success in parliamentary elections, it would be necessary to join with other left-wing groups." (Wikipedia) . So obiviously things/life before the "creation" of the Labour party wasn't as bad as the "freedom fighting spouting socialists" say ,especially for the
workers the Lancashire Mill towns .
