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Thanks for that Kris. From being 11-17 yrs I lived just outside Blackpool in Staining, and went to secondary school in Blackpool----A lot of what is on the postcards was there then, very interesting.

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Will take a look when I get in (have you guessed I'm actually supposed to be doing some work at the moment )
My lot moved from Briercliffe to Blackpool just after or during WW1.

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Mel

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Always our holiday destination.

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Trish ...

I never liked the laughing clown on the Pleasure Beach. And I must have been the only child who screamed and cried going through the Fairy Land on the front. I still don't like those sort of mechanical figures even today.

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Trish ...

There is/was something sinister about that clown!

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Mel

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Fairy Land! I had forgotten that, I loved that, but does anyone remember the Tower Zoo? That poor lion walking too and fro in a small cage, apparently the elephants in the circus downstairs, were taken for a dawn walk on the beach now I know it wasn't the donkeys that provided what I fell in. Those machines that took(literally!!!) my pennies as I attempted to grab my target, did anyone ever get anything????
Pleasure Beach etc used to terrify me but Fairy Land, I could cope with.

Eeeeh kids today don't know what they missed

I didn't like the laughing clown either. I remember the lions in the tower, as you say just pacing back and forth.
We used to live in Staining where the Tower had the winter homes for the animals. My grandparents house used to back on to the adjoining field. Many times we would see horses which would have disappeared the week after----gone for the lions.

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

My younger brother freaked out in the Noah's Ark. I had to go in and bring him out.

I too remember the pacing lions in the tower zoo.

I still love the sound of the trams.

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Trish ...

I'm off to Blackpool for a girlie weekend at the end of illuminations. It'll be my first time there for over 10 years!

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Mel

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3jXMsfLxhI

This reminds me of my late Uncle Jack, my grandma's brother. He used to live in Canada but came for a visit when I was about 13. We recorded him reciting this, still got the tape, somewhere.

My eldest son had to recite this at a school concert when we lived in Suffolk. It went down a storm, seeing as he had a northern accent already, although I had to do a little bit of coaching.

Love this poem, always thought it referred to the lions in the tower.

Fed them horse meat Gloria ooh, it gets worse, but at least they were fed.

I so remember that from the radio LOL !

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Trish ...

Lovely! I so remember my maternal grampa reciting this off by heart to me......he bought me a book once which had a whole lot of Lancashire dialect funny poems. Do you remember "When Father Papered the Parlour"?

I watched the TV series Blackpool staring David Morrissey and David Tennant and Blackpool certainly as changed.

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Trish ...