Blackpool History, Mystery, Heritage and Hauntings

You can come in , and out and in and out , it's like the hokey cokey ! What is a lockdown photographer to do ... In my case I have been sorting out my slides, photo's and postcards , I also thought I had about or around 15, 000 saved....BIG no ! it's now closer to 93,000 ! That was a shock and a new hard drive and more backups were done in the most quick of manners. I had great fun looking back on what I actually had/have some published and some have yet to see the light of day ... below is one I had written about before for a now out of print magazine and redone for the E-Zine OLM  Made me think about the things I do in my spare time and what photos am I actually aiming for in the long run?  Do I want to appear on the weather channels - nice - but folks you just get the kudos and no pay! The 'nationals' are a better bet, but again the shots used on a regular basis are quite niche, say we both took one of Blackpool Tower, one was a drone...

The boat store was originally built as a car park for 90 cars in 1935, with access at either end - if you look carefully you can see where the other entrance once near an old concrete bench. Nov 2014 an open day was held , of course I had to pop down to capture what lay beneath before it was lost to progress. Glass skylights were here to let in the light ( and rain ! ) So much space , due to the constant flooding in later years was turned into an underground boat store. Blackpool based Fylde Boat Angling Club took over in the early 1970's The boat store is now filled in as part of the sea defence works at Anchorsholme, to remove any future chance of potential failure of the sea wall following the current £22m project to build a new one.