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These became known as wakes weeks. Each town's mills would close for a different week, allowing Blackpool to manage a steady and reliable stream of visitors over a prolonged period in the summer. In , the North Pier was completed, rapidly becoming a centre of attraction for elite visitors.
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Central Pier was completed in , with a theatre and a large open-air dance floor. The town expanded southward beyond what is today known as the Golden Mile , towards South Shore, and South Pier was completed in , making Blackpool the only town in the United Kingdom with three piers. In , the Winter Gardens complex opened, incorporating ten years later the Opera House, said to be the largest in Britain outside London. From the s until the First World War, Blackpool was one of the regular destinations for the Bass Excursions , when fifteen trains would take employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.
The town was granted a Charter of Incorporation as a municipal borough in The town would become a county borough in Much of Blackpool's growth and character from the s on was predicated on the town's pioneering use of electrical power. In , it became the first municipality in the world to have electric street lighting, as large parts of the promenade were wired. The lighting and its accompanying pageants reinforced Blackpool's status as the North of England's most prominent holiday resort, and its specifically working-class character.
It was the forerunner of the present-day Blackpool Illuminations. In one of the world's first electric tramways was laid down as a conduit line running from Cocker Street to Dean Street on the Promenade. The line was operated by the Blackpool Electric Tramway Company until when their lease expired and Blackpool Corporation took over running the line. A further line was added in from Manchester Square along Lytham Road to South Shore, and the line was extended north, first to Gynn Square in , and then to Fleetwood.
In the conduit system was replaced by overhead wires. The tramway has remained in continuous service to this day. By the s, the town had a population of 35, and could accommodate , holidaymakers. The number of annual visitors, many staying for a week, was estimated at three million. The Grand Theatre was one of Britain's first all-electric theatres. The first decade of the new century saw the development of the Promenade as we know it today, and further development southwards beyond South Shore towards Harrowside and Squires Gate.
The Pleasure Beach was first established about this time. Seasonal static illuminations were first set up in , although due to World War I and its aftermath they only enjoyed two seasons until they were re-introduced in The illuminations extended the holiday season into September and early October, ceremonially switched on by notables and celebrities.
The inter-war period saw Blackpool attain pre-eminence as a holiday destination. By , Blackpool claimed around eight million visitors per year, three times as many as its nearest British rivals, still drawn largely from the mill towns of East Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. Stanley Park was laid out in and opened in The area around the park has become renowned for some of the most desirable residences in the area.
In , Littlewoods opened its first department store in the town. Documents have been found to suggest that the reason Blackpool escaped heavy damage in World War II was that Adolf Hitler had earmarked the town to remain a place of leisure after his planned invasion. Despite this, on 11 September , German bombs fell near Blackpool North railway station and eight people were killed in nearby houses in Seed Street.
This site today is occupied by the new Town Hall offices and Sainsbury's Supermarket.
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The nearby Layton Cemetery contains the war graves of 26 Polish airmen. Blackpool's population boom was complete by , by which time some , people were living in the town — compared to 47, in and a mere 14, in However, several factors combined to make this growth untenable. The decline of the textile industry led to a de-emphasis of the traditional week-long break, known as wakes week. The rise of package holidays took many of Blackpool's traditional visitors abroad, where the weather was more reliably warm and dry, and improved road communications, epitomised by the construction of the M55 motorway in , made Blackpool more feasible as a day trip rather than an overnight stay.
The economy, however, remains relatively undiversified, and firmly rooted in the tourism sector. The Blackpool Co-operative Society Emporium, a flagship store built in , which incorporated the Jubilee Theatre, stood on Coronation Street, until when it was demolished for a planned shopping centre.
The site remained empty until eventually becoming a car park and then was redeveloped when the Hounds Hill Centre was expanded to include the Debenhams Store. Between and , Blackpool formed a county borough independent of the administrative county of Lancashire. With the passage of the Local Government Act , Blackpool's county borough status was abolished and it was made part of the shire county of Lancashire.
On 1 April , however, Blackpool was made a unitary authority and re-formed as an autonomous local government unit. It remains part of Lancashire for ceremonial purposes, however. As of the election Blackpool Council is currently controlled by the Labour Party , who took control from the Conservatives in They are the largest party represented with 23 councillors followed by the Conservative Party with 15 councillors.
The population of Blackpool has been declining constantly since and is expected to decline even further in the future. In the census Blackpool was stated to have the highest percentage of divorced people in the country, In , Blackpool had the fourth highest rate of antidepressant prescription in England with the most common health problems being depression, stress and anxiety. At Blackpool also has high rates of obesity This is a chart of the trend of regional gross value added GVA of Blackpool at current basic prices by the Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
While Blackpool hosts a large number of small businesses and self-employed people, there are some large employers. Burton's Biscuit Company , Tangerine Confectionery produce biscuits and other confectionery products, Klarius UK manufactures automotive components, Victrex manufactures high-performance polymers and the Glasdon Group is a plastics manufacturer making litter bins , park benches and reflective road signs. TVR formerly produced sports cars at its Bispham factory.
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The HSBC research on rental yields ranks Blackpool in the top three cities with the best rental returns. There is currently one shopping centre within the town, Houndshill Shopping Centre. This has recently been redeveloped with the opening of a new Debenhams department store along with other major high street names. Blackpool rests in the middle of the western edge of The Fylde , which is a coastal plain atop a peninsula. Due to the low-lying terrain, Blackpool experiences occasional flooding, [27] with a large-scale project completed in to rebuild the seawall and promenade to mitigate this.
Thus the same cool summer, frequent overcast skies, and small annual temperature range is typical.
The absolute maximum temperature recorded in Blackpool was The highest temperature to occur in recent years is Blackpool is within a green belt region that extends into the wider surrounding counties, and is in place to reduce urban sprawl , prevent the towns in the Blackpool and nearby Merseyside conurbations from further convergence, protect the identity of outlying communities, encourage brownfield reuse, and preserve nearby countryside.
This is achieved by restricting inappropriate development within the designated areas, and imposing stricter conditions on the permitted building. As the town's urban area is highly built up, only 70 hectares 0. Blackpool is heavily dependent on tourism. In what is often regarded as its heyday — , Blackpool thrived as the factory workers of Northern England took their annual holidays there en masse, known as wakes weeks.
Photographs from that era show crowds of tourists on the beach and promenade.
Blackpool was also a preferred destination of visitors from Glasgow and remains so to this day. In July , an independent survey of 4, members of the general public by consumer magazine Which? Holiday now Which? In February , a number of tourist attractions in Blackpool collaborated to produce the Blackpool Resort Pass which allows for discounted access in one ticket. Blackpool has a pioneering publicly owned Municipal wireless network Wi-Fi, which covers the entire town centre, promenade and beach front.
Visitors can take a virtual tour of Blackpool, and full internet access is available.
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Outside the main holiday season, Blackpool's Winter Gardens routinely used to host major political and trade union conferences. However, in recent years these are increasingly taking place in major cities with modern, purpose-built conference centres. The Young Farmers convention has been held regularly in Blackpool since the late s. Blackpool remains a summer entertainment venue but many local establishments now trade all year round. It is known for specialising in variety shows featuring entertainers catering to a broad range of tastes, from family-friendly Ken Dodd to the 'adults only' humour of Roy 'Chubby' Brown.