Lynda Stokes said: “It's OK for day out but won't stay there” and Tracey Dutton-Hacker wrote: “The last time I went to Blackpool was in 2000 and I've never been back since, it's just full of cheap tat ...

By the 1890s, the town was home to 35,000 residents and welcomed a staggering quarter of a million holidaymakers annually - ...