Your enthusiasm for Blackpool is so infectious, I get so caught up in it, just love spending time with you as you stroll, cycle or drive along, really makes my day. Thank you so much.
Good to see so many people returning to Blackpool to enjoy the atmosphere. Great production again Stephen. Thank you for your time and effort putting these vlogs together for us.
Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always in 19 days i will be there i cant wait Blackpool is totally amazing love everything about it the tower and illuminations look amazing and the wheel and the baubles so pretty im surprised that the seagulls didnt have them doughnuts love the western tram i went on it last time stunning have a great evening xx
Good to see the town and hotels busy again, also that’s great news that the upcoming Christmas by the sea festival beginning of November the 17th this year I really love the lights in Blackpool so thanks Stephen for another fab video on Blackpool Prom I enjoyed it.
Absolutely love your videos Stephen, it’s great to see Blackpool so frequently when many of us live a significant distance away, helps to keep us in touch with Blackpool. Love your sayings “Beer monsters”and ‘it’s all kicking off” sayings that brightens my day. Keep up the great work and thanks for all your efforts and vlogs as the previous follower said. 👍
We were there this weekend and had a great time as always. Definitely a "beer monster" on the Friday night but we walked along the promenade and took in the atmosphere with the lights and the Circus projection against the tower building. Always manage to miss seeing you when we are down though!
Thank you Stephen for your great vlogs.... Putting Blackpool back on my map. My partner and I are booked up, and ready to take a walk on the wild side this coming weekend. JAYNE and GREGGY 👍
Love your videos, it brings back so many great memories of our family trips from Newcastle to Blackpool back in the 90s and your totally right, there was something special about the old Illuminations they used to have. I always look forward to seeing your new videos, best wishes ☺👍
Thank you very much Stephen for your video of the Blackpool lights I love the trams lit up. One of the best parts of the illuminations. another nice evening in Blackpool 👍❤️❤️❤️
Hello Stephen We can not wait until we see the Christmas by the sea event again in November looking forward to seeing that Thanks for the update on what's happening in Blackpool Thanks Stephen
Thanks for another of your fantastic videos Stephen, Blackpool at its best! Prefer the old bulb lights myself and the Tower looks beautiful. Thought you were doing well with no sirens then bobs your uncle off they go.😊😊😊
Scottish weekend, Northern Soul convention, and Reading fans in town to watch their team get spanked. No rail strikes, excellent late September weather. Busy, busy Blackpool.
It looks marvellous, so much colour and some of my favourite trams going past, with proper lights ABC Television Train, saw it first in 1975. Looks brilliant and you have great weather too, oh you lucky people?. Thanks for this great report on Glasgow weekend.
I just love seeing Blackpool busy and now very excited for our visit two weeks today🎉. Although I imagine the Lightpool attractions will be gone by then, until mid November🫥
Just wait for the speed awareness courses, which will have to take place at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff! I don't think there are any other suitable premises in Wales for them.
Do they not take out the Fisherman's Friends tram? I haven't seen it out since the King's Coronation. Only saw it a couple of times during the Illuminations last year. Yes the Wild West train tram is the nicest but the Warship tram is also lovely. Love the Illuminations, love seeing the Tower doing its light shows. Great to see both sides of Central Pier's big wheel being light up this year, only the south side was light up last year. The 'A' frame of a ride on South Pier is light up lovely this year. The new spitfires on Gynn Square are lovely, a great new addition, also the Icecream van tableaux at Lowther Avenue. Sad to see that kids can no longer sit with the teddies at the teddy bear picknic, maybe due to vandalism last year. Well worth getting of the tram at Harrow Place to see the glitterball all light up. Great to see the odyssey coming back, they are fantastic. Christmas by the sea was lovely last year, hopefully more stalls will come this year. Lightpool was also lovely last year and the fireworks. Blackpool is a great place to be in the winter. And when it's all gone in January and February we will still have the starling end of the pier shows, good wave watching and hopefully some snow capped mountains to see. Xxx
For me the lights are nowhere near as good as they were in years gone by they are quite bland on the promenade all the fun seems to have gone out of them, the funny faces and animals etc., made for a great show back in the day.....That train tram is great though...I can't wait to see the Christmas experience again.
Well done, you really captured the atmosphere. I wonder if the illuminations still go far to the north, maybe Bispham. Are ALL the illuminations now light emitting diodes or has some of the older technology (tungsten filament lamps) been retained?
Great Video Steve I Enjoyed It The Star Flyer Is A Amusement Ride? Will They Ever Have a Steam Fair in Blackpool? I Saw Phil Kelsall At Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer Projected on The Tower wall Blackpool Is A Fantastic Place Keep Those Videos Coming 😊 Have a Great Weekend😊
Thank goodness the illuminated trams are running, from what i see on your video the rest of the Illuminations look very very poor. I think I'll stick with Matlock Bath this year.
Used to go SEPTEMBER WEEKEND IN THE LATE 60s for the Illuminations , was always jam packed and jumping. It was BRILLIANT. Looks absolutely dead now, even though Stephen tries his best to sell it. 😢😢
@@Buzzj4k Thankyou for that long-winded response. Of course we can compare ,that's what life's all about, some things aren't the same as people remember them. I was a young girl in the 60s and living life to the full. I went back to BLACKPOOL with my family in 84 and got the shock of my life, It was manky ,and full of ethnic people, , NOT the Blackpool I had spent my youth in. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. I watch STEPHENS walk on the wild side and feel sad at the deterioration of a ONCE GREAT BRITISH SEASIDE TOWN. EVERYTHING in life changes ,nothing stays the same, maybe I was expecting it to be as I remembered it so fondly, as I said I was bitterly disappointed. You so obviously weren't around in the 60s . So glad you love it like I once did, don't let anyone burst your bubble. We're just from different time zones.
Best part of the Illuminations are the traffic lights at North Pier. This years display is pretty grim compared to the ones of the 70’s and 80’s. Give it up Blackpool Council. This is poor
Made an account via your link via your calendar site and im awaitng a link via email mate been waiting hours hasnt come through to purchase your calendar any ideas.also great video as always pal 🎉🎉
No mate not andy in japan im in england manchester.i registered to the link in your video and it wont let me go any further until i get the email to verify the account to purchase your calendar
Oh my gosh. The councils lack of bright light and the Pleasure Beachses executive woman has really made Blackpool upside down. Damn, no wonder it's quiet. No Traffic2 It's not even the end of illuminations. Ghost town
I have just come back never wrnt out with the weather sobad i was so sad what sith a lot of scottish in the hotel stephen hope to come back good vodeo xp😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 😢😢
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool hi patricia here i could not get out being 75 disabled and the wind i was like mary poppins being scottish week it was noisy in the hotl thanks stephen keep do8ng videos xp
I am having a good laugh at all the anti-scottish comments. The difference is we are welcoming towards people no matter which country they are from. I doubt the various local business owners in blackpool would want us to stop coming.
Drugs and alcohol ruin it Low life expectancy too Murders each week Ferals off foxhall Take that should play the football stadium you need big.shows Regent cinema good on a friday Tower lates good And the view from the white tower Pizza grazie good Munchbox too A lot of hotels reducing midweek breaks too Christmas events from mid nov Arcade club good on friday too
Great new (well first time I have seen it anyway) opening sequence Stephen👍👍, it looks like a good time of the the year to visit with everything lit up early doors , what is the shop / outlet on the right side with the 2 erect hamptons on the fascia at 5.20?
Your enthusiasm for Blackpool is so infectious, I get so caught up in it, just love spending time with you as you stroll, cycle or drive along, really makes my day. Thank you so much.
Thanks Mary.
Great video Stephen
Good to see so many people returning to Blackpool to enjoy the atmosphere. Great production again Stephen. Thank you for your time and effort putting these vlogs together for us.
Glad you enjoyed it Peter
Love the lights and the buzz of Blackpool 🎉
Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always in 19 days i will be there i cant wait Blackpool is totally amazing love everything about it the tower and illuminations look amazing and the wheel and the baubles so pretty im surprised that the seagulls didnt have them doughnuts love the western tram i went on it last time stunning have a great evening xx
Good to see the town and hotels busy again, also that’s great news that the upcoming Christmas by the sea festival beginning of November the 17th this year I really love the lights in Blackpool so thanks Stephen for another fab video on Blackpool Prom I enjoyed it.
Absolutely love your videos Stephen, it’s great to see Blackpool so frequently when many of us live a significant distance away, helps to keep us in touch with Blackpool. Love your sayings “Beer monsters”and ‘it’s all kicking off” sayings that brightens my day. Keep up the great work and thanks for all your efforts and vlogs as the previous follower said. 👍
Haha. I think beer monster will be in the Oxford English Dictionary soon lol 😂
😂 Wouldn’t surprise me Stephen, I loved your Ford car show coverage. Some cracking cars there and you covered it well@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool
Blackpool such amazing place to be I love it there I miss going over last time I went over was in April this year
We were there this weekend and had a great time as always. Definitely a "beer monster" on the Friday night but we walked along the promenade and took in the atmosphere with the lights and the Circus projection against the tower building. Always manage to miss seeing you when we are down though!
Great video Stephen, thanks. Just waiting for my new (to me) car and we'll be Blackpool bound before Christmas.😀👍
Wowser - Awsome videeo mate - the lights on the big wheel on central pier look fantastic this year but the Tower will always be No.1.
Hi Stephen thanks for another great video I'm in Blackpool for the weekend the illuminations and tower are beautiful 😊
Thank you for the videos Stephen, I look forward to seeing them, very much appreciated and thank you 😊
Great vlog Stephen love the train tram, and the baubles to walk through thanks for sharing 😊
Glad you enjoyed it Hazel.
Very busy thanks for the vid Stephen.👍
No probs Pat
Stephen that was fantastic watching thank you loved it
Thank you Stephen for your great vlogs.... Putting Blackpool back on my map. My partner and I are booked up, and ready to take a walk on the wild side this coming weekend. JAYNE and GREGGY 👍
Have fun Jane and Greggy!
Love your videos, it brings back so many great memories of our family trips from Newcastle to Blackpool back in the 90s and your totally right, there was something special about the old Illuminations they used to have.
I always look forward to seeing your new videos, best wishes ☺👍
Glad you enjoyed it Tony
Good to see the good old town busy !
Wow, the lights look great
Thanks 🙏
Thanks for sharing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you very much Stephen for your video of the Blackpool lights I love the trams lit up. One of the best parts of the illuminations. another nice evening in Blackpool 👍❤️❤️❤️
Top video Sir. That Tram!!!! 😍 …. Smithy
Keep em coming lad very interesting you explain everything brilliantly 👍
I love Blackpool it’s got every thing great video arrrr !!!! me Premier Inn ❤ till the next one 😊
Thanks for sharing Stephen I hope you are OK
Hello Stephen
We can not wait until we see the Christmas by the sea event again in November looking forward to seeing that
Thanks for the update on what's happening in Blackpool
Thanks Stephen
Love to see the tableaux end
Evening Stephen from Glasgow another great video,I'm missing Blackpool already. Be safe Stephen
Another fab video, thanks for the info about Christmas by the sea, coming for a few days in December, so must come and see that.👏👏👏
Thanks for another of your fantastic videos Stephen, Blackpool at its best! Prefer the old bulb lights myself and the Tower looks beautiful. Thought you were doing well with no sirens then bobs your uncle off they go.😊😊😊
Evening folks, Stephens new calender on sale now,order yours ,makes fantastic Christmas present,and your plans next year,along with amazing photos
Thanks Andy
Will be staying in Withnell Road behind Velvet coaster again next week lol.. these illuminations are ok but I liked the old ones from 90s.
We're currently down in Llandudno did the Great Orme Tramway video prmiering to at 5
Thanks Stephen for another great vlog i hope you are well i should be there but I'll come down later in the year
Scottish weekend, Northern Soul convention, and Reading fans in town to watch their team get spanked. No rail strikes, excellent late September weather. Busy, busy Blackpool.
It looks marvellous, so much colour and some of my favourite trams going past, with proper lights ABC Television Train, saw it first in 1975. Looks brilliant and you have great weather too, oh you lucky people?. Thanks for this great report on Glasgow weekend.
My oldest photo of the train tram is from 1996/7 when it was Fisherman’s Friend.
I just love seeing Blackpool busy and now very excited for our visit two weeks today🎉. Although I imagine the Lightpool attractions will be gone by then, until mid November🫥
Everything will be here Sheila.
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool oh brilliant! Thanks Stephen🎉
Great video, love the trams ❤
i have to try and make it in november ,lights look great
thanks Stephen for another great video 😊
Great video Stephen, i'm sure there's more than a few fellow Glaswegians having a bevvy tonight.
Great video Stephen. The illuminations traffic Q is a bit like North Wales at the moment with the 20mph default limit.
Just wait for the speed awareness courses, which will have to take place at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff! I don't think there are any other suitable premises in Wales for them.
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool Its
painful Stephen. You go faster on your bike, with your equipment. 😡
We're coming to Blackpool next month
Evening Stephen, ray from Gateshead.
Hi Raymond.
Everyone loves the 🚂 tram 😁
Exelent 🎉
the big wheel always looks good better than the lights
Christmas by the Sea starts 17th November. We’ve just booked on the western train for the start of December.
Do they not take out the Fisherman's Friends tram? I haven't seen it out since the King's Coronation. Only saw it a couple of times during the Illuminations last year. Yes the Wild West train tram is the nicest but the Warship tram is also lovely. Love the Illuminations, love seeing the Tower doing its light shows.
Great to see both sides of Central Pier's big wheel being light up this year, only the south side was light up last year. The 'A' frame of a ride on South Pier is light up lovely this year.
The new spitfires on Gynn Square are lovely, a great new addition, also the Icecream van tableaux at Lowther Avenue. Sad to see that kids can no longer sit with the teddies at the teddy bear picknic, maybe due to vandalism last year.
Well worth getting of the tram at Harrow Place to see the glitterball all light up.
Great to see the odyssey coming back, they are fantastic. Christmas by the sea was lovely last year, hopefully more stalls will come this year. Lightpool was also lovely last year and the fireworks.
Blackpool is a great place to be in the winter. And when it's all gone in January and February we will still have the starling end of the pier shows, good wave watching and hopefully some snow capped mountains to see. Xxx
I have not seen the trawler tram out this season Breda. Hopefully we will see it yet.
Good evening Steve from JANE MARK TURNER IN CHESTERFIELD.
Hi Jane & Mark. I have a few fans from the town which the church that has the crooked spire. I must visit some day!
Brilliant video Steve 😊👍
🙏
I think it's "Ride" on the wild side 😊
And another great video Stephen, I managed get that tram .
Great video Stephen, very enlightning, spend all day in coral Island, and spend a fortune😂
For me the lights are nowhere near as good as they were in years gone by they are quite bland on the promenade all the fun seems to have gone out of them, the funny faces and animals etc., made for a great show back in the day.....That train tram is great though...I can't wait to see the Christmas experience again.
I can't wait till the 20th October when we will be over for the weekend, if it's not raining we are going to try the kebab take away you went to .
You won't be disappointed with the food from the Armenian. Just make sure to order in plenty of time, as the wait time is long.
Fantastic video. I guess it's really hard to get the music out. Wow, it's SO loud. Loved the Western Tram. ❤
Well done, you really captured the atmosphere. I wonder if the illuminations still go far to the north, maybe Bispham.
Are ALL the illuminations now light emitting diodes or has some of the older technology (tungsten filament lamps) been retained?
We had to wait until 16:12 but yet again those famed emergency sirens associated with a Wildside video. Illuminations look fantastic as ever.
Lol 👮♂️ 🚨
Everywhere we go, we always take the weather 😅🥶⛈
Me and my son was on that great western tram last night Stephen ❤
Nice one. I saw someone waving 👋
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool yeah I was sat behind him x
Stephen my man you are worth your weight in gold.
Load of us coming down from Newcastle on Friday 27 Oct. We might run into you Stephen. We will say hi. 👍
Might get lucky 😀
Great Video Steve I Enjoyed It The Star Flyer Is A Amusement Ride? Will They Ever Have a Steam Fair in Blackpool? I Saw Phil Kelsall At Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer Projected on The Tower wall Blackpool Is A Fantastic Place Keep Those Videos Coming 😊 Have a Great Weekend😊
Turtle Bay is the place to go is you like your Rum.
Nige and PdT on the prom
8:07 in the van
I’ll be checking out turtle bay soon 🐢
Thank goodness the illuminated trams are running, from what i see on your video the rest of the Illuminations look very very poor. I think I'll stick with Matlock Bath this year.
GOOD EVENING MATE ITS. SOME. VIEW. ITS. MADE. ME. FEEL. GOOD. JOHN🎉😢😮😅
I see Papas sign is having lighting issues again lol.
Used to go SEPTEMBER WEEKEND IN THE LATE 60s for the Illuminations , was always jam packed and jumping. It was BRILLIANT. Looks absolutely dead now, even though Stephen tries his best to sell it. 😢😢
I'm here on Saturday night and it's packed got stuck in the traffic took nearly 2 hours to get from one end to the other 🤬
Sat busy
@@Buzzj4k dead as a doddo ,compared to the late 60s
@@Buzzj4k Thankyou for that long-winded response. Of course we can compare ,that's what life's all about, some things aren't the same as people remember them. I was a young girl in the 60s and living life to the full. I went back to BLACKPOOL with my family in 84 and got the shock of my life, It was manky ,and full of ethnic people, , NOT the Blackpool I had spent my youth in. To say I was disappointed is an understatement. I watch STEPHENS walk on the wild side and feel sad at the deterioration of a ONCE GREAT BRITISH SEASIDE TOWN. EVERYTHING in life changes ,nothing stays the same, maybe I was expecting it to be as I remembered it so fondly, as I said I was bitterly disappointed. You so obviously weren't around in the 60s . So glad you love it like I once did, don't let anyone burst your bubble. We're just from different time zones.
sstephen you can use music when your walking down street its fair use so dont worry
hahaha the Time Gap, I'm saying nothing lol 🤣
The only strip club I ever went in. That was the early 90’s lol
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool hahaha yes me too lol
Is the Spyglass pub where Albert and the Lion used to be?
No, it was previously The Sands venue. Before that, the building housed the Palace Nightclub.
Good evening steven we all think your great from sue Chesterfield derbyshire folk love you
Hi Sue 🙂
Hi Stephen 👋 👋 👋 👋 👋 👋 👋 👋 👋 👋
Hi Carol
Best part of the Illuminations are the traffic lights at North Pier. This years display is pretty grim compared to the ones of the 70’s and 80’s. Give it up Blackpool Council. This is poor
why is it kicking off steve loi
1991 it was booming
Where do all the seagulls go at night?
They sometimes sleep on the beach if the tide is out.
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool Always wondered that, cheers.👍🏻
Made an account via your link via your calendar site and im awaitng a link via email mate been waiting hours hasnt come through to purchase your calendar any ideas.also great video as always pal 🎉🎉
I'll look into it. Are you the Andy in Japan?
No mate not andy in japan im in england manchester.i registered to the link in your video and it wont let me go any further until i get the email to verify the account to purchase your calendar
@@Andy5634 Ok, thanks. I’ll have a look, but contact me via this website if you still have problems www.awalkonthewildside.tv/contact-me
Hi Stephen can you please tell me how to get to the £1 burger bar ,we are staying at 421 aparthotel next to the old Yates
Head north to the Central Pier, then turn right down Chapel Street and it's the 2nd road on the right.
@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool ok thanks we are home now in Manchester so will go there next time in Blackpool x
Are you on a scooter or something as you’re nipping about pretty quickly.
I was on a bike, ta 🚴
Lovely, but we wont ever pay for Lando....i hope one day they will be band
They are not cheap.
Any ideas plz still waiting for my email to come through to purchase your calender stephen ❤
Hi Andy. Are you in Japan? I did reply to an email from an Andy over there.
No im not in japan mate im in manchester
I hope you enjoyed the video i sent to you on your website. Enjoy.
I got that, thanks
Apologies Stephen I meant arrived home 26th today lol not 30th
Stay out of Blackpool on Scots week ! That's what I was told years ago !
Oh my gosh. The councils lack of bright light and the Pleasure Beachses executive woman has really made Blackpool upside down. Damn, no wonder it's quiet. No Traffic2 It's not even the end of illuminations. Ghost town
Bet cookson and the nsturist hotels are busy no need to advertise
I'd get a free massage
prob a bit extra
should have discount code
I have just come back never wrnt out with the weather sobad i was so sad what sith a lot of scottish in the hotel stephen hope to come back good vodeo xp😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 😢😢
Sorry about the weather. I hope you had a good time all the same.
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool hi patricia here i could not get out being 75 disabled and the wind i was like mary poppins being scottish week it was noisy in the hotl thanks stephen keep do8ng videos xp
SAME CRAP WHO THE HELL WANTS TO LOOK A A BUNCH OF LIGHTS FFS😅
I am having a good laugh at all the anti-scottish comments. The difference is we are welcoming towards people no matter which country they are from. I doubt the various local business owners in blackpool would want us to stop coming.
Drugs and alcohol ruin it
Low life expectancy too
Murders each week
Ferals off foxhall
Take that should play the football stadium you need big.shows
Regent cinema good on a friday
Tower lates good
And the view from the white tower
Pizza grazie good
Munchbox too
A lot of hotels reducing midweek breaks too
Christmas events from mid nov
Arcade club good on friday too
Seems to be a murder every week lately
masked e-bike bandits on the rise
beer monsters getting more aggressive
we need Leroy back
@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool take a team out
Illuminations look pretty poor in all honesty worse I’ve ever seen them, I certainly won’t be going this year, very disappointing
Never ever in my 61 years have I ever seen the illuminations look so poor and boring shame on BMBC 👎👎👎👎👎
Via crap same old dog much ever year get real
Same shit every year boring
Great new (well first time I have seen it anyway) opening sequence Stephen👍👍, it looks like a good time of the the year to visit with everything lit up early doors , what is the shop / outlet on the right side with the 2 erect hamptons on the fascia at 5.20?
I think it's a shop that sells ice cream & sweets.