#Central Pier

[blackpoolhistory]

Formerly the Chapel Street McDonalds which is now a pink-painted gift shop located opposite Central Pier.

The building was originally the Wellington & Pier Hotel back when Central Pier was called South Pier during the 1800's. Today's South Pier, which opened in 1893, started life as Victoria Pier until 1930 when both pier's were renamed to what we have today.

The building is still the original structure from well over 100 years ago.

[robthepensioner]

Dodgems on Central Pier, Blackpool, with views of North Pier and Blackpool Tower.

[cgoodin]

These are drawn images of Blackpool Central Pier entrance which I plan to use for issue 5 of Dasher. I had to do a bit of research to find out what the front entrance looks like so I can get the design right for the story. The Central Pier is where Dasher will be battling the main villain in issue 5 as he tries to save his love interest.

For future use, I changed the skies so I can later use them for future issues in different times of the day. This will save me more time from redrawing the same background image of the locations.

I also made the ruff map layout of the Central Pier based on my research. I looked up on which rides are at the Central Pier and labelled them on the map so I know what rides I should draw in the story.

[hepdenerose]

Wheely Good!

Tuesday started clear and bright, unlike us. We took our time over the excellent hotel breakfast and coffee on the terrace, agreeing to have an easy mooch around Blackpool. Finding no online bookings for The Tower Eye that week, we went in person to discover it was closed for maintenance. Walking southwards along the seafront, we were about to investigate neon-blue hallucinogenic sculptures, when…

[emaadsidiki]

Wings Waves & Seagull Tales 𓆩(•࿉•)𓆪 (Western Gull) ⋋(•⌔•)⋌

[thisismyobsessionnow]

I keep getting so, so nostalgic over these metal concerts I've been to lately 😭

First time I saw In Flames was in 2008. I was 15 and went to a metal festival alone. I didn't really listen to them at that point, but I knew I couldn't leave without seeing them. And I'll never forget it. It's the reason I still can't help but jump like a fucking maniac when Only for the weak comes up, and why I call it my fav live song of all time. The way that whole pier moved from the entire crowd jumping, it felt surreal. I was spellbound and stuck for life.

[gazetteny]

[daaedoodles]

currently thinking of elizabeth and mia feeding birds in central park 🥺

[pier-carlo-universe]

Operazione "Game Over" ad Alessandria: Confisca di Beni per oltre 3,5 Milioni di Euro. La Polizia di Stato di Alessandria conclude l'operazione con sequestri e misure di prevenzione contro un'organizzazione criminale dedita a reati gravi

La Polizia di Stato di Alessandria, in coordinamento con la Direzione Centrale Anticrimine presso il Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza, ha portato a termine l'operazione denominata Game Over.

La Polizia di Stato di Alessandria, in coordinamento con la Direzione Centrale Anticrimine presso il Dipartimento della Pubblica Sicurezza, ha portato a termine l’operazione denominata Game Over. Nei giorni scorsi, è stato eseguito un decreto di confisca di beni di ingente valore, comprendente immobili, società, autovetture di lusso e denaro contante, per un totale di oltre 3,5 milioni di euro.…

[walkswithmycamera]

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[blackpoolhistory]

Same view during three different era's stretching as far back as 1913 during a donkey parade opposite Central Pier on the Promenade with the Wellington & Pier Hotel (later a McDonalds and then a gift shop) and The Huntsman hotel (later the Bier Keller building and Happy Dayz amusements) dominating the view in the period photograph.

[robthepensioner]

Central Pier seen from South Pier, and a stretch of Blackpool beach more popular with seagulls than holidaymakers in late May.

[mymanymerrymuses]

The SECOND I hatch a shiny zigzagoon it is over for you guys

[sayruq]

The United Nations said Tuesday it suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to lack of supplies and insecurity. It also said no aid trucks entered in the past two days via a floating pier set up by the U.S. for sea deliveries. The U.N. has not specified how many people have stayed in Rafah since the Israeli military began its intensified assault there two weeks ago, but apparently several hundred thousand people remain. The World Food Program said it was also running out of food for central Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Rafah have sought shelter in a chaotic exodus, setting up new tent camps or crowding into areas already devastated by previous Israeli offensives. Abeer Etefa, a spokesperson for the U.N’s World Food Program, warned that “humanitarian operations in Gaza are near collapse.” If food and other supplies don’t resume entering Gaza “in massive quantities, famine-like conditions will spread,” she said.

The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court cited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged “use of starvation as a method of warfare,” a charge they and other Israeli officials angrily deny. The prosecutor accused three Hamas leaders of war crimes over killings of civilians in the group’s Oct. 7 attack. The U.N says some 1.1 million people in Gaza – nearly half the population — face catastrophic levels of hunger and that the territory is on the brink of famine. The crisis in humanitarian supplies has spiraled in the two weeks since Israel launched an incursion into Rafah on May 6, vowing to root out Hamas fighters. Troops seized the Rafah crossing into Egypt, which has been closed since. Since May 10, only about three dozen trucks made it into Gaza via the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel because fighting makes it difficult for aid workers to reach it, the U.N. says. For months, the U.N. has warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah could wreck the effort to get food, medicine and other supplies to Palestinians across Gaza. Throughout the war, Rafah has been filled with scenes of hungry children holding out pots and plastic containers at makeshift soup kitchens, with many families reduced to eating only one meal a day. The city’s population had swelled to some 1.3 million people, most of whom fled fighting elsewhere. Around 810,000 people have streamed out of Rafah, although Israel says it has not launched the full-fledged invasion of the city it had planned. The United States has said Israel did not present a “credible” plan for evacuating the population or keeping it safe. The main agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, announced the suspension of distribution in Rafah in a post on X, without elaborating beyond citing the lack of supplies. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the UNRWA distribution center and the WFP’s warehouses in Rafah were “inaccessible due to ongoing military operations.”

An absolute nightmare

[emaadsidiki]

The Golden State 🌊🏖️🥇