Blackpool
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Famous for it’s ballroom dancing, Wurlitzer organ and fine architecture. / Blackpool tower ballroom. / Shot at the seaside resort of Blackpool Lancashire. / Shot with a Nikon D70s and 18-70mm lens /
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This old man was enjying looking at the birds and the sea just by the central pier in Blackpool, UK.
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I shot this some while back now maybe a year or so ago in Blackpool tower ballroom in lancashire and forgot to upload with the others I shot.. / Shot at Blackpool Lancashire. / Shot with a Nikon D70s and 18-70mm lens Here are some historical details about the Tower ballroom from Wikipedia: The original ballroom, the Tower Pavilion opened in August 1894. It was smaller than the present ballroom and occupied the front of the tower complex.The Tower Ballroom was built between 1897 and 1898 to the designs of Frank Matcham who also designed Blackpool Grand Theatre and it opened in 1899. It was commissioned by the Tower company in response to the opening of the Empress Ballroom, in the Winter Gardens. The ballroom floor is 120ft x 120ft and is made up of 30,602 blocks of mahogany, oak and walnut. Above the stage is the inscription, “Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear” from the sonnet, Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. Each crystal chandelier in the ballroom can be lowered to the floor to be cleaned which takes over a week. From 1930 until his retirement in 1970 the resident organist was Reginald Dixon, known as Mr Blackpool. The first Wurlitzer organ was installed in 1929, but it was replaced in 1935 by one designed by Reginald Dixon. The resident organist is Phil Kelsall who has been playing the organ at the Tower since 1975 when he started in the circus. The ballroom was damaged by fire in December 1956, and the dance floor was destroyed along with the restaurant underneath the ballroom. Restoration took two years and cost £500,000 with the restaurant becoming the Tower Lounge. The BBC televised the Come Dancing series from the Tower Ballroom for many years and it has also hosted shows from Strictly Come Dancing including the grand final of the second series on 11 December 2004. / The Blackpool Junior Dance festival has been held each year in the ballroom since 1964. / Dancing was not originally allowed on Sundays, instead sacred music was played. The ballroom also originally had very strict rules including – “Gentlemen may not dance unless with a Lady” and “Disorderly conduct means immediate expulsion”. The Tower Ballroom has been voted the most magnificent ballroom in the world
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I know that I have a couple of similar pics but this one seems to bring you closer to the action with the wave being so close. Typical late spring weather when the cold, light South Easterlies give way to warmer, strong Westerlies, coupled with large spring tides. The trams are often unable to run along the length of the promenade due to the size of the waves, and only the very brave or foolish step forward of the rows of stores along the promenade. Canon EOS 100 28-80 Jessops 200 ASA Blackpool – My Birthplace
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Shot from within St Thomas Church in Blackpool Lancashire England. /
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Shot last night 26th september 08 at sunset at North pier Blackpool Lancashire England.. /
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Went to Blackpoool tower this thursday gone and grabbed a few HDr’s of the the tower ballroom, this is one of the teashop and bar at the rear of the ballroom.. / Shot with a Nikon D70s and 18-70mm lens
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View across the sea towards Central Pier Blackpool UK, shot from the North Pier when the storm was breaking and the light was striking the water. The ferris wheel is mounted on the pier and the Pepsi Max Big One roller Coaster, once the highest in the world can be seen in the distance at Blackpool Pleasure beach. One of a sequence that has had no manipulation in colour. This is how the shot came back from the printers…….(loss of) colour due to leaving the film on the dashboard of the car in full sunlight prior to developing. Canon EOS 100 Jessops 200 ASA scanned neg Blackpool – My Birthplace
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World Famous for it’s ballroom dancing and Wurlitzer organ not to mention the beauty of this dancing hall. / HDR 3 shot. / Blackpool tower ballroom in the seaside resort of Blackpool.. / To me this ballroom is such a magic place, I could sit in here for ages watch the poeple dance away… / Shot with a Nikon D70s DSLR and 18-70mm lens
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Taken with a Canon 400D, Sigma 17-70 lens at 70mm, 2 second exposure, F11, ISO100, Edited in Photomatix and Photoshop. North Pier was officially opened on 21 May 1863 with a grand ceremony attended by over 20,000 visitors. It was the second of the fourteen piers designed by Eugenius Birch (the first being Margate Pier), and is now the oldest of the few remaining examples of his work still in use. It was also the first of Birch’s piers to be built by engineering firm Richard Laidlaw and Son of Glasgow.
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HDR 3 exposure shot looking south on the lower prom taken from near Gynn square. / HDR, shot witha NIKON D70s and 18-70mm lens
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This was shot in October 2006 and was amomg my first sunset shots. / Shot on the beach at Blackpool in Lancashire, I saw these poeple walking into the sunset, I thought it looked great along wiith the sky etc. /
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A shot of one of the interior of St Thomas church in Blackpool, Lancashire.. /
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This was shot inside St Thomas church in Blackpool Lancashire England… /
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A Blackpool tram Shot at the terminus on Fleetwood promenade last night near the North Euston Hotel..28th september ‘08. / The Blackpool tramway runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire, England, and is the only surviving first-generation tramway in the United Kingdom (UK).[1] The tramway dates back to 1885 and is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world. It is run by Blackpool Transport as part of the Metro Coastlines, owned by Blackpool Borough Council. The tramway runs for 11 miles and carries 6,500,000 passengers each year. / This is one of the double decker Balloon trams, I worked 3 summer seasons on these trams and what a laugh it was working on there.., a different type of poeple to who travel on the trains that I now work on… /
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Shot of the interior of St Thomas Church in Blackpool Lancashire… / 3 shot hdr tonemapped / Shot with a Nikon D70s and Sigma 10-20mm lens at 10mm focal length /
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The windows were grubby and milky white. But with three exposures and HDR, I’ve managed to do something with this scene! / If you could zoom right into the shot? You would be able to spot tiny little people walking around on the beach near the water edge on the left of the frame!
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This is from a series of shots taken from Blackpool’s North Pier as a storm was clearing. EOS 100….......... scanned neg Blackpool – My Birthplace
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Shot in the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool at Sunset, the pier is North pier. /
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Shot last year at sunset at North Pier Blackpool Lancashire England. / Shot with a Nikon D70s and 18-70mm lens. / Designed by Eugenius Birch and commissioned by the Blackpool Pier Company, work commenced on the first of Blackpool’s piers in 1862. The North Pier was opened on 21st May 1863 by Mr F Preston, Chairman of the Pier Company, amid much pomp and ceremony. In effect it formed a seaward extension of the Talbot Road, which had recently become host to the town’s first railway station. The railway was to prove significant for Blackpool because not only did it allow some 20,000 visitors to witness the spectacle of the North Pier opening, but it provided the means by which Blackpool became the great playground of the north-west. /
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Shot of Where the Congregation sits from the where the Vicar sits or stands. / Of course, well before the service has started LOL hehehe / This was taken at St Thomas Church in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. / /
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