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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
What do you think are the reason's for that, Walter? It's not something I've heard of before. Are these wounded ex-seviceman - discharged - who have moved to the coast on medical advice? Or because alot of housing in Blackpool was built immeadiatly prior to WW1 (from Nori!) and there was suddenly a surplus of cheap housing? Or fewer jobs in the mills, because of conversion to a war economy?
I can guess the reasons for people returning from Canada, but the flit to Blackpool does have me puzzled.
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It was the perception that the air in Blackpool was cleaner and fresher. My dad used to swear blind that his annual week's holiday in St Annes cleared all his blocked tubes because "the air was like wine".
Maybe if he's stopped smoking his 40 Capstan full strength every day, he might have felt better without having to go to the coast!