0:00:18 > 0:00:22Journey's end is also a beginning.
0:00:22 > 0:00:27Sun and breeze bring a first reviving whiff and promise of the world of holiday.
0:00:32 > 0:00:39Office and kitchen, school, factory and mill escape to the seaside of Lancashire.
0:00:41 > 0:00:447 o'clock, that's all right.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Any idea where they're all going?
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Well, I shouldn't be surprised if it's Blackpool.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00Blackpool, known to millions of Britons and millions from overseas.
0:01:06 > 0:01:104-5, 45.
0:01:10 > 0:01:12Having a great time here in Blackpool.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Been swimming every day.
0:01:14 > 0:01:19Red Rum passes through a special photoelectric cell and on go the lights.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23It's big and it's brash, it's extravagant.
0:01:24 > 0:01:30What is most important, it's proud to stay that way.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Along broad back streets where days all have the calm
0:01:43 > 0:01:47of Sunday afternoons, you're at the core of Blackpool's success.
0:01:47 > 0:01:53Bed, breakfast and evening meal for around £1.50 a day and all the comforts of home away from home.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01She's a nice lady, Mrs Godworthy.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Bed, breakfast and evening maul.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07I got there last Sunday.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10Walked up the drive, knocked on the door. She opened up.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14She said, "What do you want?" I said, "I'm looking for some cheap digs."
0:02:14 > 0:02:17So, she stuck her fingers in my ribs and said that would be two bob.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22The boarding house is the quintessential Blackpool institution.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27When boarding houses started in the 18th century, Blackpool hardly existed.
0:02:27 > 0:02:32Even as early as 1760, Mrs Whiteside opened one what's alleged
0:02:32 > 0:02:35to have been the first boarding house in Blackpool.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Along the promenade, every single house is either a boarding house
0:02:38 > 0:02:42or, as it's sometimes more grandiloquently called a private hotel.
0:02:42 > 0:02:47Look, I've given you two keys. Your bedroom key,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50your front door key, so it doesn't matter.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53You know where everything is and you know where the room is. OK?
0:02:53 > 0:03:00We used to get parties and it didn't matter if you'd only beds for 30 and 45 came.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Three in a bed, there was no objection to it.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05They liked to do it but not today.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08Are you catering for the new generation?
0:03:08 > 0:03:11I cater for a mixed generation - mixed.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14I've got some teenage boys in, I've got an elderly couple.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17I've got a granny and grandad and grandson.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21We have a regular clientele that come back year after year
0:03:21 > 0:03:24because they know that we provide good accommodation,
0:03:24 > 0:03:26which is clean, and good food.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28They know when they go out of the house,
0:03:28 > 0:03:33they go out with a full tummy, you know, so they don't have to buy
0:03:33 > 0:03:35a lot of food when they're out.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39They know they get good food in our dining room.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43No fancy frills but that's the way the regular customers like it.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49Everything's just ordinary, simple, good food.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51It suits them. They have that.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54They go out and enjoy themselves.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57To the Pleasure Beach, the young ones. To the parks, the old ones.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59That's Blackpool.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Behold, Blackpool!
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Buffeted by boisterous blasts,
0:04:11 > 0:04:14bashed and battered by bursting billows.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16What wicked, wet, weekend weather!
0:04:16 > 0:04:19Spray, seaweed and salt water soaking streets and sightseers,
0:04:19 > 0:04:21simply shocking.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Astonishing for August and desperately disappointing,
0:04:26 > 0:04:31disbursing disastrous damage and dismal destruction in diverse directions.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Gladness, gaiety and glee?
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Disgusting, all gone with the wind.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44The gale which has been sweeping Great Britain vents its fury on Blackpool.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47The strong sea walls stand up to the onslaught.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52The Northwest enjoys the same rainfall as the Amazon rainforest.
0:04:52 > 0:04:57# I'm staying out for the summer Playing games in the rain... #
0:04:57 > 0:04:59It's not raining.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09# Staying out for the summer
0:05:09 > 0:05:11# Staying out for the summer... #
0:05:14 > 0:05:19High wind which gave Mr Chamberlain such a tough crossing to France strikes Blackpool,
0:05:19 > 0:05:20but Blackpool can take it.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25It reminds me of my childhood.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40Freezing, horrible. I hate Blackpool.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Blackpool, annual Mecca for 8 million people,
0:05:50 > 0:05:54brings down the curtain on one of the sunniest summers in living memory.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56No less than three piers cater for those who feel the need for a different one each day.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59Theatres, sun loungers and orchestras are to be found on all of them.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05The largest of the three is the North Pier - 710 yards in length, including the jetty.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Thousands stroll here each day.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Thousands more relax in the sunshine.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15There's a fascination about piers.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19Everyone gets a kick out of walking out to the sea without getting their feet wet.
0:07:21 > 0:07:27Looking at people enjoying themselves is certainly part of the enjoyment that a pier offers.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40Oh, dear! What do you think about what they've done to the pier?
0:07:40 > 0:07:44Well, they've modernised it but I don't think they've improved it.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48When I come to the end of the piers, the frontages of all your piers,
0:07:48 > 0:07:51you've got your South Pier, your Central Pier and your North Pier.
0:07:51 > 0:07:58I look at them and I remember what they were like. Beautiful Victorian wrought iron architecture.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02It seems you've just swept it aside and replaced it with something which just isn't considered.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06It's just ramshackle to me.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08How do you justify it?
0:08:08 > 0:08:12I don't agree. I think it was ramshackle before we altered it.
0:08:12 > 0:08:17You take the frontage here. We had an old turnstile.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Everything was set back more.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22There was an old turnstile there and another old turnstile there.
0:08:22 > 0:08:27As you say, with Victorian buildings, it was dropping down with chocolate paint.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29You could have restored them.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32This just looks like Newport Pagnell bloody Service Station.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36Oh... We have replaced it with something the public want.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40The public want leisure centres, a beautiful show bar -
0:08:40 > 0:08:44the Merrie England bar - which is going back in time.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48We have a beautiful tree in the middle of it there - a simulated tree.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50You can sit round the tree.
0:08:50 > 0:08:55You have old bars, you have old saddles, warming pans.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59We're trying to create an age there in Merrie England. Going back.
0:08:59 > 0:09:00We want happiness in Blackpool.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02That's why we built this.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04- You can have... - Not drab, old Victorian ideas.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07- We don't want them.- I know. But this has just been thrown up.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10You can't justify this here. Just look at it!
0:09:10 > 0:09:12# I want to tell you about a lovely place
0:09:12 > 0:09:13# Down by the sea
0:09:13 > 0:09:15# It's not in France or Italy
0:09:15 > 0:09:17# 'Twas made for you 'Twas made for me
0:09:17 > 0:09:19# The place I mean is Blackpool
0:09:19 > 0:09:21# There's a lovely beach and a lovely prom
0:09:21 > 0:09:23# The brass bands play tiddly-um-pum-pum
0:09:23 > 0:09:25# You hear the folks say, "Ee, by gum"
0:09:25 > 0:09:27# A right old place is Blackpool
0:09:27 > 0:09:31# If you can't sleep after five And feel glad to be alive
0:09:31 > 0:09:33# You're at Blackpool by the sea
0:09:33 > 0:09:35# Come on!
0:09:55 > 0:09:58# You're at Blackpool by the sea
0:10:02 > 0:10:05# Whee! Yippee! How's that Big Dipper? #
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Hiya, the gang's all here except you.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Having a great time. There's some fab new rides.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25The old roller-coaster is still my favourite.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29Shouldn't have had a hot dog first, though, I feel sick.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19During my sojourn through this vale of tears,
0:11:19 > 0:11:21many sites have thrilled me.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Dawn flushing the sepia sky over Kowloon.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Processions of faith along the banks of the Ganges.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31A sunset streaking across the Caribbean.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33They all pale into insignificance
0:11:33 > 0:11:35when compared to the excitement I felt
0:11:35 > 0:11:37when I first saw Blackpool Tower.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42The highest rise in Britain is the Blackpool Tower.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46The lifts work on the same principle as colliery lifts.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Capable of travelling at 800ft a minute,
0:11:48 > 0:11:51they carry visitors up 480ft.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54The tower itself is 520ft high.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Blackpool has a reputation for fresh air and fun.
0:11:57 > 0:12:02Even if you're not keen on fun, there's still lots of fresh air to be enjoyed up here.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06I remember coming here as a kid to the Tower.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Coming up here, quite frightened. I wanted to hold on to the side.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12I wasn't keen on the height at all.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16At this time of year, I've got to replace or check some 10,000 lamps on the Tower
0:12:16 > 0:12:20because they get battered over the winter in the winds and everything.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22One of the other jobs that I'm doing
0:12:22 > 0:12:26is actually clearing the Walk Of Faith - there's a glass panel in the floor.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30It gets dirty underneath. The thing about it is it's 300ft up in the air.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33It's slightly different than a normal window to clean.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36It concentrates your mind when you're at 300ft.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39You don't get a second chance. If you make a mistake, that's it.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44At the base of the Tower, magnificently housed between
0:12:44 > 0:12:50its four massive supports, is the most unique, the most beautiful circus building in existence.
0:12:50 > 0:12:56Opened in 1894 when Victoria was queen and described at the time as,
0:12:56 > 0:13:01"A majestic showplace of gilded arches and cascading fountains -
0:13:01 > 0:13:04"the like of which will never again be built."
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Do ringmasters really say, "Roll up, roll up, the greatest show on Earth?"
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Not really. Not so much nowadays.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13They do use a lot of superlatives.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16It's always "The greatest, the most magnificent.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- "The world's most fantastic."- I'll stop him doing this in a minute.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Come on, son, there's a good boy. Come and sit down.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Another kind of slow traffic moves across the promenade -
0:13:27 > 0:13:31the circus elephants taking their daily exercise.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Mr Blackpool, Reginald Dixon, gives recitals in the ballroom.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50The idol of millions, he's played to audiences here for 30 years.
0:13:57 > 0:14:02Magnificent ceiling murals occupy an area of over 2,000 square feet.
0:14:09 > 0:14:122,500 people can take the floor at the same time.
0:14:12 > 0:14:144,000 others can watch them.
0:14:26 > 0:14:31And here's a money-maker that only Blackpool has. Hurry, Hurry, Hurry!
0:14:31 > 0:14:34The side shows of Blackpool await the eyes of the curious.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38Fattest and thinnest, tallest and shortest, Blackpool has them all.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40The best and biggest freak show on Earth.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44The crowds roll up and stop and stare, feel a little pity perhaps,
0:14:44 > 0:14:47and move off to where there's more fun for sale.
0:14:53 > 0:14:58All the theatrical razzmatazz of bingo is larger and livelier,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00and twice as much fun, in Blackpool.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02The first number, 41.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Align all your four corners, please.
0:15:04 > 0:15:0641 your first number, yellow.
0:15:06 > 0:15:13Yellow 4-5. 45, yellow, green, 49. 4-9...
0:15:13 > 0:15:17The holiday industry in Blackpool has an £80 million turnover.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20And much of it is based on the fact that there's always somewhere to go
0:15:20 > 0:15:24along the promenade and Golden Mile if it starts to rain.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26The machines are always rattling with activity, even when
0:15:26 > 0:15:32the sun's shining outside, there's a cluster of hopefuls waiting for the fruit machines' harvest.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38And now for the really big jackpot.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52Blackpool. If you're looking for youth, this was the ultimate.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56Tots triumphant in the final of the Baby of the Year contest.
0:15:56 > 0:16:01And this being the age of the beauty queen, a girl can't appear in public too early.
0:16:01 > 0:16:06Chosen from 5,000 babies from all parts of the country, 14 of them were presented
0:16:06 > 0:16:10for the judges' verdict, with all the assurance of Miss World candidates.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20The winner, her head quite unturned by success,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22was 16-month-old Julianne Waterway.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26The Master of Ceremonies, Bruce Forsyth.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Also officiating was the Mayor of Blackpool.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33For being Baby of the Year, Julianne won £500 and a crown.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35She didn't seem to want either.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41Six BBBs - Blackpool Bathing Belles -
0:16:41 > 0:16:44are backing backless beachwear this year.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48Some are one-piece, others two-piece,
0:16:48 > 0:16:51but there'll be no peace until the wife gets one!
0:16:51 > 0:16:54After choosing the Beauty Queen of Great Britain, Blackpool sets about
0:16:54 > 0:16:58finding this year's Cotton Queen from among the 19 lovely finalists.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00It seems strange that the stands are mostly filled
0:17:00 > 0:17:04with women, but probably all the men are waiting at the stage entrance.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08And here comes the winner - Doris Bower of Bolton - with her attendants
0:17:08 > 0:17:12and the 18 other finalists, each representing one of the cotton towns.
0:18:07 > 0:18:1211 men come back to Blackpool to one of the greatest welcomes ever accorded a football team.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16Yes, they're the Blackpool boys who won the Match of the Century at Wembley, against Bolton Wanderers.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20Heading towards the Tower, the procession continues its triumphal journey.
0:18:20 > 0:18:25100,000 loyal fans give a cup winners' reception to Harry Johnston and his team.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35It was always a great moment when you paid your ninepence.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39You were in.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41The moments of drama lay ahead.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45Football, like most things, was not yet a branch of the entertainment industry.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48The coach arrives at Blackpool's town hall,
0:18:48 > 0:18:51and 15,000 people surge forward for a closer glimpse of their heroes.
0:18:51 > 0:18:55CHEERING
0:18:55 > 0:19:00The crowd roars for Matthews, at long last a holder of a cup winner's medal.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Modestly, he replies.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06I do want to say what a wonderful reception you've given us.
0:19:06 > 0:19:14And I also want to say that I'm told by one or two people that I was the match winner.
0:19:14 > 0:19:19As a matter of fact, I don't believe that, for the simple reason we have here 11 match winners.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21CHEERING
0:19:21 > 0:19:26Already the team have vowed to do their darnedest next year to keep the cup in Blackpool.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32We took our pleasures dourly.
0:19:32 > 0:19:39Most of the boys I knew played football as well as watched it. For working class boys, it was THE game.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43I played myself in a team full of pretty rough lads, pretty poor as well.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48Enjoying such salubrious jobs as sugar boilers and brickies' labourers.
0:19:50 > 0:19:55# And I'm feelin' glad all over
0:19:55 > 0:19:57# Yes I'm glad all over... #
0:19:57 > 0:20:03Now, after decades in the doldrums, the sun is finally shining once more on Blackpool FC.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07The club's spectacular win over Cardiff City yesterday
0:20:07 > 0:20:11has catapulted them back to the top flight of English football.
0:20:13 > 0:20:18Here, there is jubilation that Blackpool is now a Premiership football team.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Some have even lost their voice celebrating.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24- CROAKING:- I'm speechless! About Brett Ormerod yesterday,
0:20:24 > 0:20:28I can't believe what they achieved yesterday, it's fantastic.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37From Lancashire and Yorkshire, they pour into Blackpool,
0:20:37 > 0:20:40determined to have a grand holiday and everything's off the ration.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44This, for instance. It's not North Country roly-poly, it's Blackpool rock.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48But we still don't know how they get the name right through the middle.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49# ..going on there
0:20:49 > 0:20:51# Baz is making letters, I do declare
0:20:51 > 0:20:56# There goes a B and an L and an A Violet sits them down on the tray
0:20:56 > 0:20:58# You see that thing like a big white cone
0:20:58 > 0:21:00# That's the middle of the rock all on its own
0:21:00 > 0:21:03# Now the letters are wrapped around
0:21:03 > 0:21:05# In a coat of red to keep them sound
0:21:14 > 0:21:17# All together and one, two, heave
0:21:17 > 0:21:19# Ready to roll, you'd better believe
0:21:19 > 0:21:21# Watch out now, cos here it comes
0:21:21 > 0:21:23# The whole stick of rock just runs and runs
0:21:33 > 0:21:35# Momma will you look at the long red snake
0:21:35 > 0:21:37# Pulling out Just look at it break
0:21:37 > 0:21:39# Marion and Lillian They're the queens
0:21:39 > 0:21:42# Making it smooth like you've never seen... #
0:21:42 > 0:21:46For over 53 years now, Basil Hargreaves has been at this game.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48In B-L-A-C-K-P-O-O-L
0:21:48 > 0:21:50There's beautiful girls
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Beautiful hair
0:21:52 > 0:21:55And beautiful scenery everywhere
0:21:55 > 0:21:57It's gay and bright, day and night
0:21:57 > 0:21:59And the people all treat you swell
0:21:59 > 0:22:02In B-L-A-C-K-P-O-O-L
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Blackpool!
0:22:25 > 0:22:27There's oysters and all
0:22:27 > 0:22:29In August, tha knows
0:22:29 > 0:22:31What Lancashire masticates in August
0:22:31 > 0:22:32London sups up in September.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Traditional English fare.
0:22:37 > 0:22:42Blackpool's answer to French cuisine - the chipped potato.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45The chip.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48Greasy, doesn't half do you the world of good.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51A hazy, greasy, euphoric dish.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Highly recommended.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12All through the year, work goes on for the great day
0:23:12 > 0:23:16in September when the fabulous Illuminations will be switched on.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26From one end to the other, the promenades will be ablaze with light.
0:23:26 > 0:23:3175 miles of cable will be laid, 350,000 coloured lamps will dance
0:23:31 > 0:23:34and the glow in the annual display of dazzling splendour.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39A quick sketch, a few scattered thoughts to back it up, and three years
0:23:39 > 0:23:45from now, it will be transformed into another of those super spectacular kaleidoscopically dazzling tableaux,
0:23:45 > 0:23:52and all the complicated backstage work goes on the year round at the Illuminations depot.
0:23:52 > 0:23:59Artists, moulders, electricians, joiners, mechanics, painters, the best part of 100 of them, all told.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Dedicated to the daunting task of injecting new life and hard cash
0:24:03 > 0:24:06into the sagging end-of-season holiday scene.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11Every year, we inject into the display a number of new features,
0:24:11 > 0:24:13probably a quarter or something like that.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17And the rest of the equipment, which has been out on a previous occasion,
0:24:17 > 0:24:19is re-displayed in a different place,
0:24:19 > 0:24:24in a different way, so that the viewing public see something completely new each year.
0:24:24 > 0:24:29The First Lady of the skies, 002 Concorde, flies over Blackpool.
0:24:29 > 0:24:34Famous not only for its tower, but its equally famous Illuminations.
0:24:35 > 0:24:40The Illuminations are Blackpool's way of having that final end-of-the-season fling.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Female-impersonator Danny La Rue
0:24:42 > 0:24:47is there to switch on the lights, which first went on 60 years ago.
0:24:47 > 0:24:53I welcome to Blackpool Miss Jayne Mansfield,
0:24:53 > 0:24:58in your name, in the name of people of Blackpool.
0:24:58 > 0:25:03It's pretty obvious that she is better known than most folk who've been here to do this,
0:25:03 > 0:25:10er, job tonight, er, to do this job as it's been done...
0:25:13 > 0:25:20It's very obvious indeed that you don't want to listen to anything I might have to say. And therefore...
0:25:20 > 0:25:23CROWD CHEERS
0:25:23 > 0:25:29..I have now very great pleasure in asking Miss Jayne Mansfield
0:25:29 > 0:25:31to switch...
0:25:31 > 0:25:38to switch on the Autumn Illuminations of 1959.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49This is the most fantastic thing I have ever seen in my life!
0:25:49 > 0:25:50I'm completely speechless.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58Oh, thank you so very much, all of you. It's completely breathtaking.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59I'm without words.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03In the past, Blackpool's famous Illuminations have been turned on
0:26:03 > 0:26:07by a an assortment of film stars, politicians, and disc jockeys.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08An old warhorse can do better -
0:26:08 > 0:26:13Red Rum passes through a special photoelectric cell, and on go the lights.
0:26:13 > 0:26:21# Absolutely fabulous
0:26:21 > 0:26:28# Absolutely fabulous
0:26:28 > 0:26:35# Absolutely fabulous
0:26:35 > 0:26:43# Absolutely fabulous... #
0:26:49 > 0:26:53# She's a lassie from Lancashire
0:26:53 > 0:26:59# She's a lassie from Lancashire
0:26:59 > 0:27:03# She's a lassie from Lancashire... #
0:27:09 > 0:27:13I don't know why we bother with a hotel, cos we dance all night.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18There's more clubs here than in Manchester and it's better fun. Everyone's out for a good time.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21We met these gorgeous blokes from Wigan.
0:27:23 > 0:27:29It's a transvestite show bar and I could offer you a job there if you shave your legs!
0:27:43 > 0:27:46So what do the girls make of their town?
0:27:46 > 0:27:49It does need regeneration, yes.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51- We just need...- Some nice hotels.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54- Some nice shops.- Some lovely shops.
0:27:54 > 0:27:59- Nice restaurants. - A- nice restaurant would be nice!
0:27:59 > 0:28:02# There's got to be something better than this
0:28:02 > 0:28:05# There's got to be something better to do... #
0:28:05 > 0:28:10I've just heard this some big millionaire bloke from America coming over,
0:28:10 > 0:28:12so I've put my American outfit on,
0:28:12 > 0:28:14you know, one Yank and it's off!
0:28:14 > 0:28:22# Find a brand new girlfriend or bring your wife... #
0:28:44 > 0:28:47I think driving to a British seaside resort, Blackpool,
0:28:47 > 0:28:52in a funny little British sports car, with a naked lady statue
0:28:52 > 0:28:58and giant urn on the seat next to me, is above all else, fun.
0:28:58 > 0:29:03And for all our serious side, the British have always been rather good at fun.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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