So to test your knowledge, here are 13 interesting facts about the Fylde coast that may have passed you by.
7. The UKs oldest passenger airport
Squires Gate, which became Blackpool International Airport, was one of the first aviation sites in the UK, with a history dating back to 1909. Just a few years after the first powered flight in the States, passengers were being flown over the Fylde coast. Maximum speed then was just over 40mph and a 30-mile flight was considered long distance, but this was the first place in the UK where non-aviators could take to the air as passengers. In 2014 the airport was closed with the loss of 100 jobs, but Blackpool Airport site was bought back by the council in a 4m deal in 2017.
8. Andy Summers is from the Fylde coast
Andrew James Somers (known professionally as Andy Summers), is an English guitarist who was a member of the rock band the Police. He was born inPoulton-le-Fylde.
9. Over 30 listed buildings
The town of Blackpool is known for its historic Victorian architecture, but not many people know that there are so many listed buildings. Famous examples include the Grade II listed Winter Gardens designed by Thomas Mitchell and built 1875-78, and the Baroque-style Grand Theatre designed by Frank Matcham and built over seven months, opening in 1894.
10. A Princess Diana portrait made of 2500 pennies
Blackpool has a museum of oddities, including a portrait of Princess Diana made of 2500 penny coins. At Ripleys Believe It or Not museum and its odditorium youll also find shrunken heads, a fertility statue which has had over 1,000 confirmed pregnancies, and a two-headed calf.
11. This is what would happen if the Towercollapsed
Given The Blackpool Towers height, the number of surrounding buildings and the fact that it is built with 2,500 tonnes of iron and 5 million bricks, there were concerns about safety if it were to collapse. But, thanks to a unique design and some clever construction, in the unlikely event that The Blackpool Tower ever did fall down, it would fall into the sea rather than the buildings around it.
12. John Simpson was born in Cleveleys
TVlegend John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE, English foreign correspondent and world affairs editor for the BBC was born in Cleveleys in 1944,but was taken to his mother's "bomb-damaged house in London" the following week.