AudaTours Blackpool Audio Tour: The People Behind the Pleasure
The Comedy Carpet, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1
Follow a self-guided route through Blackpool with headphones and the app as you walk from stop to stop, starting at the Comedy Carpet and ending on Charnley Road. There are 9 stops and about 1 hour of audio, or around 1.5 hour in total including the walking. Along the way, you hear the town as it was worked as well as watched: the first electric street trams, the Tower’s brickwork and illuminations, the North Pier and promenade at daybreak, the Grand Theatre and Winter Gardens, and the boarding houses that filled with seasonal workers and holidaymakers alike. This Blackpool version is shaped by the people usually left out of the postcard view — steeplejacks, ballroom organists, pier keepers, landladies, electricians and showmen — and by the places where their labour shows up in the streets today. It is a walk through the resort’s visible landmarks, but the story comes from the names, jobs and routines that kept them running from 1863 to the present day.
Timings
Available anytime
Location & directions
The Comedy Carpet, Blackpool, Lancashire, FY1
- Directions:
- Starts at Comedy Carpet, Blackpool Tower, Central Promenade, visits 9 stops, and finishes at Charnley Road Blackpool boarding houses.
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Book on day
- Booking conditions:
- Visit the booking link and click the "Get Tour" button to receive a redemption code. Follow the link to download the AudaTours app, enter your redemption code, and you're ready to go.
- Booking email:
- [email protected]
- Booking website:
- https://audatours.com/tour/united-kingdom/blackpool/p-3747-behind-the-pleasure
Accessibility details
This is an outdoor, self-guided audio walking tour. The route follows public streets and pavements and does not include access to the interior of any of the sites — they are to be admired from the outside. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.
Additional information
You can start the tour whenever suits you during the festival and pause, resume or revisit it at any point — the route plays at your own pace from your phone. Once redeemed, the tour stays in your AudaTours library so you can come back to it any time. Headphones (or one earbud if walking with a companion) are recommended, and the tour works best in daylight hours.
- Estimated duration:
- 2 hour(s)
