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Barry Lewis photographs of Blackpool “Warmth, excess, fun and surreal humour”  

Barry Lewis photographs of Blackpool “Warmth, excess, fun and surreal humour”  

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Warmth, excess, fun and surreal humour.” An illustrious photography career found him shooting for Vogue, but for Barry Lewis Blackpool proved a continuous draw. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Year after year he returned with his camera and the resulting body of work – brought together bursting with colour and life – bristles with a familiar friction between wholesome family daytime fun and an eccentric and hedonistic nightlife. In a series of two articles, he tells Claire Walmsley Griffiths why the town became a place to store his best memories.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="30876" img_size="large" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I still love the seaside – those earliest memories are still released…
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Blackpool Visitor Business is Booming

Blackpool Visitor Business is Booming

Blackpool’s tourism economy is riding on the crest of a wave after two surveys showed significant growth in visitor numbers over the past 18-months resulting in a valuation of visitor economy of £1.5billion which in turn supports more than 25,000 full-time jobs in the resort. VisitBlackpool, the tourism arm of Blackpool Council tasked with promoting the town to leisure and business visitors, both domestically and internationally, commission regular surveys which collate data from a variety of sources such as households, hotels, attractions, tourist information centres and events to estimate the number of visitors, revenue generated, satisfaction ratings, reasons for visiting and…
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