Blackpool's abandoned subway

Blackpool Gazette

Blackpool Promenade once had a subway to safely transport pedestrians across the promenade. It was closed eventually and left abandoned with no hope of it re-opening.

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00:00Blackpool Seafront once had a subway to safely transport pedestrians across the promenade.

00:06It was at Chapel Street and was built in 1958. It was closed eventually and left abandoned

00:12with no hope of it reopening. It was eventually demolished in 2021. These pictures look back

00:18at its construction and the days before it was filled in.

00:30Blackpool Seafront was built in 1958. It was the first subway station in the world to be built in the 1950s.

00:37It was the first subway station in the world to be built in the 1950s.

00:41It was the first subway station in the world to be built in the 1950s.

00:45It was the first subway station in the world to be built in the 1950s.

00:49It was the first subway station in the world to be built in the 1950s.

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