Used to go here once a year for my "Holiday" with my parents (We grew up on a council estate in Salford, Eccles in the 80s) Was a highlight for me as a kid, loved it, don't care what it is now, will always be a place I hold endearment for, no matter how nasty it is.

The threat of being sent to Blackpool could end illegal migration

It's people who are the problem, not places. Poor does not need to equal low or no standards whatsoever.

Shocked how run down Blackpool is 😢 I remember being taken here as a child in the early 60s. Traditionally it was where everyone went for the Wakes Weeks, the annual holidays taken in the Lancashire mill towns.

Such a shame it was never beautiful but it was nice. So sad to see your home town get treated like crap , used as a dumping ground for cities and immigrants. Together with mismanagement of funds by the council.

My nan owned a hotel near the pleasure beach and Visiting her was a highlight of my childhood rip Nan

It’s like Las Vegas meets Chernobyl

Poor old Blackpool. Beautiful winter Gardens

Run by a Labour Council. Says it all.

Charles, a woman killed herself yesterday here in Wilmslow. She threw herself off the bridge on to the A34 bypass. Not that unheard of you might think… but the crazy thing about this, is her husband was with her in the car… she was driving over the bridge, and out of nowhere she pulled the car over, and jumped off into traffic. Can you imagine how he ever gets over witnessing that? I didn’t witness the jump, but I witnessed him crying in distress being comforted by a woman. I live very close by. I say this to you, because I know you’ve been to Wilmslow quite recently. And we really need to do something about mental health crisis. And what the crisis is: is people who are a little bit sad, and think they are entitled to happiness, when they don’t have it, the tell everyone they have MH issues, and take up valuable resources. So people like this woman, clearly with REAL mental health issues, have to wait 8 weeks to see a mental health professional! That is what the crisis is. And I hope you will try and bring awareness to this issue Sir Charles!

A bit snobbish with your attitude and totally disagree with you basically having a go at the homeless calling them thieves and druggies,their is a lot of genuine homeless people on the streets of Blackpool,maybe you should concentrate on the illegal immigrants who are taking up the hotels in Blackpool like the Metropole and looking at what Blackpool council aren't doing for the town.

Saw Chubby Brown in the Winter Gardens a few times. Hes good and the place inside is good.

Mate! 4 days a year, I stay in Blackpool. Rebellion punk festival, in Winter Gardens! It gets full of colourful mohicans, skinheads, boots and braces, with the whole of Blackpool invaded by punk rockers, making me look forward to this year!!

I went to Manchester City centre recently. Not been there since the 1990s. It was horrible.

Very grim indeed .Watch a walk on the wild side ,he does all of Blackpool.

The Winter gardens looks great. Shame it's in Blackpool.

A derelict former holiday town, you couldn't pay me enough to suffer a week in that hole

My dear friend loved Blackpool, Northern Soul nights, passed away a year ago from MND. I miss him a lot. Dave Hodkinson, Northwich, RIP

There’s a guy called Tony Taylor that appeals parking tickets and he pretty much always wins! Search him up. He’s appealed and won mine!

Miss Blackpool of the 90s/00s

You can find the same in every town. Good bad and ugly.

Hi Charles i hope your well, i've been watching your videos now for about 2 years, and have always thoroughly enjoyed them, so just wanted to say thanks very much for the hours of fun and enjoyment you've given me, and also to say you have loads of nerve in the way you deal with the confrontations that you have to suffer, and yet you still keep going, anyway keep em coming all the best Tony.

I saw the Grumbleweeds on the pier, I was a young boy, they put the lights out and they came through the audience in skeleton suits with torches, I wet my pants, honestly, I pissed em, too much for a young boy to take in.

Not been for years last time i went some guy tried to break in to my room in the night, the chef was in the next room and chased him down the street with just a towel round his waist, he caught him and handed him to the police. He came back to tell me it was safe now. My daughter was shaking and worried he would come back so i sat up most of the night reassuring her she was safe. I checked out in the morning and never went back to Blackpool.

My wife is American. I am absolutely 100% taking her to Blackpool tower and convincing her it's the Eifel Tower in Paris. I almost had her going on drop bears from Australia where I was born. I'm pretty confident I can do this!

That couple didn't look disabled to me. If the badge holder isn't with car the badge gets withdrawn, quite rightly.

Blackpool (well named) is the sort of place you visit once or twice a year to remind yourself why you do not visit.

Winter gardens was opened in 1878 and has different themed rooms. It also at one point had a ferris wheel.

My first experience of Blackpool was a very rainy summer day trip in 1974. So excited as the Dr Who exhibition had recently opened earlier that year. To come face to face with the monsters and Daleks you had been terrified by on tv was both fascinating and darn scary. You could walk into the pleasure beach free and pay per ride which was pence. The funhouse was fantastic albeit the scary laughing clown. The song "Beach Baby" was in the charts then and always reminds me of this visit whenever I hear it, which of course is rare now. It was much more a family resort back then with lots of elderly folk who came out of the war dressed in flat caps, raincoats, headscarves' and tweed jackets. Last time I went was 1994 and it had already got pretty seedy by then. I might drive up again this year and document it for old times sake.

I never liked Blackpool even as a toddler and had to be carried out of the circus screaming the place down due to the clowns.

I used to love this place. Now, I'd rather walk round Morecambe with a nail in my shoe on a wet Wednesday night than go there. The good news is though Charlie, if it got worse the longer you stayed, I suppose it must be improving now you've left. Lol.

I went swimming as a kid at Blackers in the 70s doing front crawl grabbed a solid human turd never been in the sea since !!!

He did listen, 60 frames per second. Let's go.

I live in Blackpool, it's not all like this, there's some lovely parts, it's not a city it's a town, that warehouse you talked of is the old post-office, try going to the beautiful Stanley park,

an ex of mine is an addict, your observations, may not be popular in these messed up times, they are however, 100% correct mate.

my home town was in decline for years under a labour council , now its been conservative run and the improvements are obvious

It’s a mess. Everything is rundown, dirty, dilapidated, closed, or falling down. It’s heyday way a long, long time ago.

Blackpool is great. I like that it hasn’t upgraded. It still retains that genuine nostalgia

Those God awful war of the world street lamps round the corner from Church Street. When I lived back in Clevelys for a few years, I think I went into Blackpool town centre once just to catch the train. It still can be nice to walk along the promenade though.

A jock in Blackpool in the holidays ? Mi timbers are well and truly shivered. Ya alright, Charlie.

Loving the new camera footage Charlie.

When I was a kid we always went to Blackpool, it was great. Loved the fairground. How times have changed.

That's where I had my first tattoo , I was drunk as a skunk , but had a good weekend with all my workmates . The year was 1981 😅

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1250">20:50</a> They're all parked. The seagulls can create a huge amount of mess in just minutes. 🤣

There's a lot to hate in the world, but there is beauty if you look a little deeper. 🏵✨️

Have Blackpool council just given up? Look at the rubbish everywhere. At least get a road sweeper out ffs.

I was born and raised next to Blackpool (St Annes-on-Sea) and I'm appalled at how disgusting Blackpool is now. I remember being in a school choir, which took part in the police concert, at the Winter Gardens. I also used to go to dinners there, with my parents. So, it's nice to see they've kept that building looking good. But how can the council justify spending somewhere around £80million, on the seafront, whilst the rest of the town goes to ruin?

20 million visitors last year. It’s not all bad.

I hope those monks found a hotdog stand and were made one with everything. Better have the right amount of cash though, because change must come from within.

Glimpses of the pleasant country this used to be before the gates were open to the hordes.

my therapist: clean shaven Mario isn't real . . . <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="543">9:03</a>

The ultimate definition of ‘bleak’.

I do wish people would stop running Blackpool down like it's the only town in the UK with problems. Just about every town has problems.

I like to visit Blackpool now and then. It always reminds me to stay sober and earn money.

Blackpool, "The Margate of the North"

I think some of you need a sense of humour, it's still a good weekend and a good laugh

What happened years ago was people who were on the dole for life went to Blackpool for a day out. And then in their wisdom though why do we come and live in Blackpool and be on the dole and life will be wonderful ever day just like our day out.

Great video man, I was out too today and missed you by seconds after filming the Hare Krishna's lol Steve@Spiceheads

Would love you to join us in Alderley Edge one Saturday! 🙌🏼 Plenty to film on the bypass and village, all sorts happens Charles 🤣

OMG I could cry I used to live there during the summer season. I was in a show. I loved the place. It’s disgusting what it’s like now. 😮😡

How sad. Emblematic of the decay of our country. I have great memories of holidays in Blackpool as a child. I knew I recognised Winter Gardens - it used to be Professor Peabody's Playplace and despite its kiddly-fiddly-esque name, was an amazing place for kids but would never be allowed today due to health & safety

Even the Tower looks 'rusted out'! With the salt sea air hitting it all the time it certainly needs a lick of paint!

That AB video was just creepy when the wo MAN officer started his search

The best thing is people are slating Blackpool like the rest of the UK is some kind of Utopia. 😂Ok there are some nice places to visit in the UK if you really look hard enough but overall percentage wise the UK has been allowed to become a complete s******e. So slate Blackpool if you must but I’d strongly advise you to open your eyes and look around where you live whilst you’re doing it. 🤔

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="820">13:40</a> Never been inside there...Wow! Thanks!

Blackpool is brilliant for 4 hours once every couple of years……it’s an amazing institution……big part of my upbringing…..

I can remember as a child , that would have been a fantastic place to visit,

Disabled my arse. Granny, let me use your badge today,…

Its famous for different kind of rock in 2024

It's a real shame to see the decline. 40 years ago, I'd go there as a kid and it still had plenty of life in it but as you say, cheap package holidays have taken away it's core economy, which was leisure and holidays. Now it serves mostly hen parties and stag nights and it's really hard for a lot of smaller hotels to make ends meet. Lot's of genuine poverty and social issues there which doesn't help, but that is pretty much the same in a lot of Northern towns and cities, long forgotten and abandoned by government policy and investment. Blaming decline on drug addicts is daft though. There has been a complete failure to properly resource specialist treatment for people who faill into that abyss, along with a failure to deal with the criminal gangs supplying them, and that problem exists in a lot of places. Blaming councils, who have lost 60% of central government funding under the Tories over the last 14 years is also disingenuous. Councils are legally required to provide certain services, which includes adult social care, a cost that is forcing most councils to borrow to pay for it. Most councils have had to cut youth provision completely because of those cuts, as all available funding is needed for those legally required services. Only a change of government prepared to properly fund what is needed to tackle these issues will change anything, and that will never be the Tories or right wing libertarians, who think food banks are great.

My mate ( young blood ) lives in Blackpool does a lot of music relating to cancer, and other charity’s really generally decent

Yeah, that's what I always do Charlie , park about a mile away from any restrictions and get a taxi in or a bus even. It runs a lot of cheaper trust me🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I see people all the time saying how wonderful a holiday in Blackpool is. There is no way, after this video, I would ever subject myself or my children to this place! Unbelievable! Looking forward to being in Tenerife in 2 days 😍

I went to Blackpool last week for a couple of days . I got out of the train station and walked towards Sainsbury’s and someone got stabbed . Then on my last day I was walking past Poundland and again someone got stabbed . Very dangerous place now

Probably was better in the 1950's like most things in this country.

Was in Blackpool on Friday was shocked at the slum like conditions that was clearly evident through the town, it seems Blackpool has been abandoned to the slum landlord/ hoteliers, even on the golden mile it looked grubby and uncared for ! Surely the town council has a lot to answer for these authorities cannot keep harping back to the pandemic for an excuse to do nothing, Blackpool for years has been a favourite destination of ours Now just like a lot of the hotels is seems to be a uncared for crumbling botched up dump so so sad Blackpool Authorities hang your heads in shame !!!

I love Blackpool, I go to this really good hotel

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="622">10:22</a> for those who don’t know this building set on fire. It was a hair salon….so something caught a flame <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="673">11:13</a> uses to be royal male factory

Love it Charlie cheered me up make me laugh in positive way cheers ❤

Blackpool ; An entire town helping police with their enquiries.

The only reason you should go to blackpool is for the pleasure beach, the beach, the rides at the piers and the indoor shopping centre

great vid as always !

The white English people really ruined Blackpool but we aren't allowed to say that. Sunak will fix Blackpool before Ukraine

Blackpool is ugly, dirty, tacky and totally run down. OK, so most large seaside towns, these days, are run down but Blackpool is the pits.

I was born bread and buttered in Blackpool. It was in fast decline at the end of the 60s. The best parts still remain like, Stanley Park, The tower and ballroom. The Grand theatre. As a kid I used to walk along the prom to read all the saucy postcards!

I didn't know Blackpool had a cathedral Charlie. Kept calling it a city.

Blackpool. Is the best I live here and it's amazing in the summer

its very simple to sort out towns like Blackpool give tax breaks to people/company's wiling to investing money. and if there are abandoned buildings give them to locals who have good business plans

Last thing I would have expected to see in Blackpool was an advert for LBC.

my lad lives in blackpool and he says its a shithole, told him to come back to the proper pool ...liverpool lol

Fun fact despite many British soldiers being stationed there during WW2 adolf hitler spared blackpool from bombing because he wanted to turn it into a giant theme park for his soldiers post nazi invasion lol

There's a huge multi-story carpark smack in the middle of Blackpool centre, really not far from where they illegally parked - so if they can't be bothered to use it - TOUGH!

I went there in the 70s as a young lad with my cousin and grandparents and had a lovely time. Stayed at a nice hotel on the promenade and remember going on the haunted train and funfair. We saw a circus show on the pier if my memory serves me well. Sad to see its gone downhill

I was in St Anne's on Saturday. Its nicer than Blackpool IMO

My old Grandad was a Manchester man. He often spoke of Blackpool, and he made it sound like a wonderful place. He left Manchester in 1914. Maybe then things were better.. I wonder what he'd think of Blackpool then

the empty shop space was the nail salon that blew up

Je m'appelle Jean-Maurice et vous regardez le show de Charilie Veitch en français !!! C'est la vie, c'est le Veitch.

Many a great weekend spent there,when the lights are on,good fun.xx

I'm sure asylum seekers would be very happy here. It would save the tax payers quite a bit too. £9 a night (£63 a week) for a room. Landlords would make a few quid. Everyone's a winner!

First time viewer, first time commenter. Love the French accent at the beginning. Made my day. Greetings from Poland