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Shipping Containers for sale in Blackpool Lancashire

Estimated Population: 142,283

It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog. The water which ran into the sea at Blackpool was black from the peat and formed a “black pool” in the relatively clean waters of the Irish Sea.

Blackpool is heavily dependent on tourism. Major attractions include: The three piers: the North (built in 1863), Central (1868) and South (1893), Blackpool Tower, built in May 1894, is a 518-foot-tall copy of the Eiffel Tower, it was painted gold for its centenary. And The Blackpool Pleasure Beach amusement park, near to the South Pier.

In what is often regarded as its heyday (1900-1960), Blackpool heaved as the factory workers of northern England took their annual holidays there en masse.

Shipping Containers for sale in Blackpool lancashire