If you, like myself, are a fan of our beautiful and bedazzled town then you might be interested in the BBC programme All Lit Up, which aired this morning.
The programme was presented by Laurence Llewelyn Bowen (the creative curator of the Blackpool Illuminations) and uses last night's centenary switch on of the Blackpool Lights as his starting point for exploring the resort's hidden heritage and glamour. I am a proud sandgrown Blackpudlian and though while it was a slightly biased, passionately positive representation of an often overlooked town, I feel it's this kind of 'good press' which we need in order to continue turning a corner in how the rest of the country sees us.
What I liked was that the programme made use of a lot of the often unknown but awe-inspiring facts which most visitors and locals do not know, such as: the town was the first to have electricity; that the man (Sir Hiram Maxim) who created the Flying Machines - the Pleasure Beach's oldest ride) also invented the machine gun; and that a lot of the unseen resplendent architecture which is hidden behind the doors of the Winter Gardens, Grand Theatre and Tower were designed by some of the most talented and revered architects of their day. This show has it all, so if you want to learn more follow the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m9c6x
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