And, while the number of establishments may have dwindled somewhat owing to the closure of many of the city’s finest drinking establishments over the past few decades, Blackpool is still a place with its fair share of top-tier boozers.
Full of fabulous old school haunts with traditional character as well as newer trendy bars and bouncing clubs, Blackpool’s nightlife scene is still lively to this day... but many will say that it’s nothing like it used to be.
Some establishments earned pretty notable reputations for being somewhat ‘rough’ back in the day, and so when we asked readers to nominate the standout spots which really stick in the mind as being particularly dodgy, you told us in your hundreds.
Now, of course, we are not suggesting that any places which are still operating are still like that today, but these are some of the pubs which were mentioned most frequently, meaning that they’ve made the list.
1. Blackpool's roughest pubs
These are some of the pubs which readers said were a bit rough through the years... Photo: submit
2. Roughest pubs through the years
The Queens in Talbot Road had a mention. The community pub, once one of the few out of town centre live rock music venues was also part of what was known as the Talbot Road pub run, which included the New Road Inn, the Ramsden Arms the now demolished Wheatsheaf Photo: Martin Bostock
5. Roughest pubs through the years
The new Star Hotel in South Shore opened in 1932. It made the list as one of the roughest Photo: staff
