Blackpool

Blackpool was the world's first and biggest working class seaside resort. As such, it has been a powerful generator of myths, tall stories, stereotypes, and novelties for over a century. This book sets the myths against the evidence and charts the rise of the real Blackpool. Mixing anecdotes and serious historical analysis, it gives full weight to the years since the First World War as well as the formative and transitional late Victorian and Edwardian decades.