UK Coastal Resort Case Study - Blackpool
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UK Coastal Resort - Blackpool
Exploration
1720 - Only visitors were the landed gentry
1780 - 4 hotels built
Bowling greens and facilities for archery
Main attraction - sea
Involvement
1781 - 1st private road
Stage coaches ran from Manchester and Halifax
Northern people access cheap transport
1820 - 1st holiday cottages
1st assembly rooms
1840 - 1st railway in area
1846 - Thousands of day trippers visited
Development
1856-1870 - Promenade built-along sea front
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