Good evening everyone on my way to Blackpool now

The build up to seeing Blackpool Tower worked. I got quite excited.

Well done Steve, your drive into Blackpool brought back some happy memories of my weekly business trips Blackpool of which I did many over a 15 year period and stopping off at the travel lodge as you enter Blackpool the way you came in from Kirkham. Keep up your excellent work in producing these excellent video’s.

Thank you Stephen, what an excellent video. I think we can all agree that the first sighting of Blackpool Tower gets the excitement building up. These last three videos you have made are a massive help for anyone arriving in Blackpool, it was very thoughtful of you to do that xxx

I can't wait to go to Blackpool this summer

There's a new way in. We used to stay at the carousel Hotel which took us near the airport. I recall my son getting excited when he saw the tower. When he was 8.

Great video mate when I come to Blackpool Fleetwood I get off the Fleetwood turn its very nice areas this way plus having you on here is like having new family member

I can remember camping in a campervan around summer of 2002 in the Lake District and we decided to drive into Blackpool for the day. The exciting moment we saw the tower and then driving along the promenade was overwhelming almost and we couldn’t wait to get parked up and see the town. This brought back some memories 👍

The best route in to Blackpool is along Preston New Road, past Little Marton Windmill. Nostalgia overload.

Great road trip video! 😃👍

I absolutely love Blackpool since my first experience in the 90's (depends where you go) but I do get excited when seeing the tower after a long trip from South Wales. Three years running with 12 visits, wife likes Liverpool, Manchester etc but if we travel to the other places there must be a couple of nights in the old favourite! Not sure what it is but there is something you cannot get anywhere else in the UK

Steve another entertaining and helpful guide on the drive into Blackpool......I'll definitely be paying another visit very soon......keep up the great work 'fantastic '🖐

Very nice sound quality.👌👍 Good job Stephen.

Hi stephen as i now live in blackpool, i used to love driving on the m55 to blackpool, at 3 am, at times i had the motorway to myself, great video as always.. thankyou.

Another great "A Drive on the Wild Side" video Stephen! I still look for the Tower but I do it on the train after leaving Kirkham and Wesham . The number of times I've beaten the kids on the train during the traditional "who can spot the Tower first" competition.... I should be quids in! 😁. Love coming back in the late evening and seeing the Tower all lit up in the distance, a true sign of home! 🗼. Great work Stephen! 👏

Great video! Thank you Stephen x 🙂

I think everyone has fond memories of driving into Blackpool and being the first one to see the tower I know I do thanks again Stephen 🍻

"Are we there yet?" Most common phrase said by kids up and down the country on visits to Blackpool.

Nice drive. Going past Bloomfield Road is the statue Jimmy Armfield. Used to like listening to him on the radio.

Great video tonight ,looking forward to the next videos

Great video again, Mr walk on the wild side thanks.

I think I've been this way on national express Into Blackpool 👍

Loving the drive Stephen 🚘🚘

Interesting video again Stephen,enjoyed it,thanks.

Hi Steve that’s the Direct straight way in nice road I the M55 where we come in to Blackpool it’s nice too see the Tower you no your nearer there🗼

THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME MY MEMORY BACK AS I REMEMBER MY YOUTH WITH MY PAREINTS AND FRIENDS

Great video Stephen!

Fantastic drive! 👍👍👍👍👍

Great video Stephen, been coming to Blackpool since a child the first view of the tower from M55 still makes me existed 😊

I've never been to Blackpool but hope to visit this year. I found this video strangely interesting and well narrated with some useful information. Also interested that you appear to have a blanket on the top of your dashboard.

My grandmother used to play the organ in the tower back in the 70sand 80s …. Many a waltz was played

Really enjoyed it thank you for taking the time to do these videos

cool @9:25 driving over cobbles. For some reason I always find driving over cobbles fun.

Great video again Stephen thank you.👍

Nice trick putting a blanket on top of the the dashboard to stop the camera picking up the reflection when I am going in to Blackpool i usually turn right and go past Asda and head to Blackpool fc to my secret free parking places but then I would not class my self has a stranger to the town which your video is doing a great job helping out people who are

The embankment took us as kids all over. Great fun. Thanks

I love that drive into Blackpool it always feels like I’m coming home ❤️

While climbing Mont Blanc with a mate, many years ago, we stopped off at a mountain hut for the night and got chatting to a father and son doing the same route. Turns out that they were from Bottrop and knew about Blackpool being twined with their home town. Steve will tell you all about it when you go visit him at the shop. 😀

Oh how I wish I was your passenger going into Blackpool. Xx

Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always loved this driving video very interesting good for motorists to know what to look out for take care xx

Brilliant video Stephen once again thank you

Not much traffic ,I haven't been Blackpool for years ,it's lovely ,to go back as I feel IME in the car 🚗,with you having a run out ,thankyou very much ,another great video

Thanks Stephen another great little video 🗼

Brilliant video yet again Stephen .. done this drive many many times over the years .when we was kids we used to go by coach and first person to see the tower got a tanner I won most times as my dad used to tell me when we was coming up to it 😂 he was a lorry driver and drove coaches every other weekend .... ❤

Another superb vlog Stephen, very informative. Excellent, thank you and best wishes.

That was brilliant Steven thanks

Awesome video mate 👍 Can't wait for the summer 😍 You certainly can't beat Blackpool!... As you say Stephen 🙏

Great idea for a video, was lovely to watch. Thanks for sharing 🙏💕😀

Well done! Brilliant video. Many thanks.

I do drive but don't like driving if you know what I mean. I generally use public transport to get about to take the stress out of travel. Some of these car parks situated, are still a very good walk into Blackpool. I don't know I'm no spring chicken anymore. I should try a drive here again. I have done it before, just lost my nerve with age. Not lost my nerve for those roller coasters waiting though!

Blackpool is so nice

I went this way yesterday as I went to Blackpool with my sister, neice, nephew and mam and i get excited every time I see the tower

Great video Stephen so many memories thankyou😁😁😘😘

Mixing things up on the channel, great effort sir 👍 I have just watched the video and fantastic as always and full of information for anyone visiting Blackpool. Take care

Bravo Stephen, just loved this. We must have exited the M 55 where you go, because our old house was on Red Bank, Bispham. I've always wondered how the finished it off.

I never thought of it before travelling that road, but when you said it, it was pure railway construction. You can't be beaten for providing information about Blackpool. old and new.

Great video.

Great video 👍

We'll be on the 55 on Sunday as we're bringing our grandson to Blackpool for the day & I still get excited @ the first site of the tower even @ my age 🤣😅...By the way Stephen you need to slow down as your exceeding the speed limit @ times..😂

Lovely Lancashire Coastal Town of Blackpool in Lancashire in England in the UK.

Can't wait for the video on car parks seriously 🙂 we coming back to Blackpool in July staying at a place we have always stayed when visiting Blackpool on Osbourne road lovely people and accommodation anyway we always just parked up in a small carpark across the road but have been told a hotel or something has been built in that area now so worried about parking the car close to accomodation now I love your videos keep them going love from us here in Armadale,West Lothian, Scotland xx

Interesting as usual mate 👍 👌

Awesome....✌👌

Used to have a weeks holiday with mum and dad back in 60’s before the M62 was built, driving from Brighouse to Blackpool down the Calder Valley towards Preston, took absolutely ages and in July Preston was always gridlocked with holiday makers heading for Blackpool. Blackpool seemed like another world compared to hilly West Yorkshire, red brick buildings were totally alien to me. I had no money to spend but my parents let me wander around the Pleasure Beach on my own, how times have changed! I loved Blackpool and still enjoy an unplanned trip every now and then. It’s true it has lost some of its former glory, back in the day the beach was packed and everyone enjoyed the fresh air by the sea, we didn’t spend much unlike nowadays where everything seems to have a price tag.

When driving to Blackpool in a coach, I used to point out Blackpool Tower from near Charnock Richard Services on the M6.

Hi Stephen. Did you know that prior to the M55 being opened a Tornado aircraft was landed on the Motorway between Junction 2 and 3. I’m not sure if it was a press stunt or if they were testing it out as an emergency landing area as is done in Sweden. Regards Ian.

Great video No burger man he is in 200 vlogs for 2022 and its not even easter Can you do hotel parking as well Which places are decent and dog friendly hotels Plus discounts for families As you are the professor of blackpool Def going to hit that 11m with these videos Seeong the tower and big one is awesome

Wow, what a great video… I left Wesham/Kirkham area in 1978, and I don’t remember much of course ,,, I’m now 53 living in California, USA, but my Mum still lives in Cleveleys Your videos bring back very fond memories of my childhood… God bless you, keep safe in your travels

Cheers helpful video

I use to get the train to Blackpool ,1976

Wow Stephen, when you put the StarCar into warp drive it really moves!

Great video 📹 👍

Palatine school is now called south shore academy

Hi Stephen great road trip and thanks for your time in giving us these educational videos so look forward to them - Stephen I must mention that the slip road you mention for Blackpool St Annes is actually junction 4 and not 2. Junction 1 starts at Preston/Garstang A6 then the next is Junction 3 Kirkham/Fleetwood A585 - There has never been a Junction 2 on the M55 but this is now under construction which will be The Preston Western Distributor and East-West Link Road and due to be operational in 2023

I always think I'm first to spot it but usually it a pylon! 🙈 xx

Too cold for me this time of year I went in February one time (I'm from east Sussex) beautiful footage and insights

-Good wee journey there Stephen but when i come in i always pass a windmill on the left hand side I think you did a video from it a while back i would be coming in from the Hollyhead ferry in Wales so cant remember the motorway just follow the satnav lol.

Styx was a local haunt many memories.

Hi Stephen good video but I think you may have got the junction numbers mixed up just check. Keep filming please

LOVE your videos. When I first went to Blackpool in the 70s, the M55 was brand new. It wasn't shown on any map. It was virtually empty. I remember that it ended at a roundabout with a white windmill on it. It was a lovely sight. What happened to that?

I don't drive so this was interesting to see.

Stephen, you're making yourself sound aincient! I'm in my late 40s and I can never remember Yeadon Way being any different, I can remember before they modernised the car and coach parks, and I can remember it being run down near the football ground, Bloomfield Road. Blackpool is my second home because my maternal nan had relatives living in the area, so we'd regularly visit.

I think it might be bonkers driving during the bank holiday weekend anywhere in the UK. lol

Have come into Blackpool on coach trips via Yeadon Way many times off the M55 coming from the north east through Kirby Stephen. Once or twice the driver took us through Garstang instead, which seemed to take forever and I couldn’t work out why he didn’t just stay on the motorway!

I use to say to my daugters when i drove for a day out First one to see Blackpool Tower get's a £1.00 yeh

Pity that the railway which now ends at Blackpool South, would make more sense being extended to the area of old Central Station

I THINK YOU ARE DOING A WONDERFULL TOURIST INFO JOB STE, ESPIASLY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T MAKE IT OUT, IT DO'S THEM THE WORLD OF GOOD FROM YOU AND THAT INCLUDES MY WIFE WHO LOVE'S THE SEA BUT IS HOUSEBBOND AND ONLY YOU GIVE HER THE FREEDOM.

Been down Yeadon way many a time on the old steamers before they shut Central in1964.

Bottle of Pop and a bag of crisps , was always given out to the first Sheffield kid on the coach , to spot the Tower , then they would all get them . to be fair .

Blackpool is like St.Kilda in Melbourne Australia

Can u see the tower yet 😂😂😂😂😂😂🗼🗼🗼🗼🗼

Stephen back in the early 1980s the 1st time I went to Blackpool we caught the train from St Pancras to Preston and then got an old Diesel train to Blackpool. When we got off the Train in Blackpool the Football stadium had all corrugated fencing around the ground thosedays. "It looks posh now" Stephen would we arrived in Blackpool North or Central from the Preston train 🤔

Id park in preston and train it in Last trains leave 2300 Parking is well expensive

Evening steven

That motorway was remarkably quiet

How many times have u bin there

Hi Stephen another great vid I’m happy to say I’ve had my channel about 48 hours and already have Ofer 200 views on one video lol

i turn left at roundabout everytime i visit prefer the view

Nlackpool is so nice