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Originally Posted by garinda
Blackpool only exists because of mill towns like Accy.
No Trade Union movement, no annual paid holidays, no Blackpool.
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What a shame you don't know your history. Blackpool exists primarily because of the railways; it was already a seaside destination by the time of the formalisation of the Wakes Weeks in the 1900's but these were unpaid until the 1936 Holiday Bill for paid holidays was enshrined in law.
However, you're right insofar as the town's clientele were primarily from the Lancashire mill towns (Morecambe's visitors were West Yorkshire - hence the similarity in alot of architectural style between terraced streets in Morecambe & places like Bradford and the direct rail link which still exists)
I wonder, however, what some of those old Victorian Trade Union leaders - with their ideas of self improvement and moral standards would now make of this drug-ridden, child-grooming, tatty collection of streets that not only calls itself a town but the UK's seaside capital?