Southport

Southport Pier. The white roofed building is an expensive fish and chip cafe that charged people to use the toilets and employed a person specifically to enforce this! Meanwhile on the stage, preparation for a show of some kind is taking place	Funland Amusements on Southport pier	A new bridge over the Marine Lake	Bumper Boats and a paddle steamer on Southport's Marine Lake	Southport Pier, an unusual pier in that there's not much on it. However, since the demise of Herne Bay's pier, I believe this is now the second longest pleasure pier in the UK (after Southend)
McDonalds show an unusual break from their traditional retail park architecture for this seafront retail park setting. Southport is a strange seaside resort in that it doesn't really have much of a promenade	Southport beach	Southport Pier	Southport's fabulous beach	IMGP4730
The wide expanse of Southport beach	Southport beach, a hardy soul ventures out onto the sands...	Southport beach offering distant views of Blackpool (a proper seaside resort)	This has to be one of the most depressing places I have ever seen. The Pleasureland amusement park was until fairly recently, one of the best seaside amusement parks in the UK and indeed was ownd by Blackpool Pleasure Beach, however the dream has now turned into a nightmare, the park closed last year and most of the historic rides were demolished. It has now reopened but is now nothing more than a travelling funfair located in the derelict ruins of the original park.	The ruins of Pleasureland. The coaster is in the process of being removed and the only prospect of anything better is heralded by a scruffy garden shed. As well as the demise of all the proper rides, all the shops and stalls have been closed too.
Southport seafront	This area of wasteland next to the Pleasureland has been used to dump various artefacts from the rides	More debris from the funfair	The remains of Pleasureland	All the fun of the fair
Rusting kids rides	Southport bowling green	A derelict nightclub.	Southport shops. The town itself is reasonable, if not pleasant, it is the seafront and in particular Pleasureland that is a total disgrace.	The leafy streets of Southport's shopping streets
Southport town hall	Southport shops	The entrance to Southport pier	This bunker like building houses Southport railway station (closed when I visited due to a broken rail at Ainsdale)	Southport station
The British Railways proof reading department is keeping up its usual high standards

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