. The London & North-Western Railway . comes the pleasant head-quarters of gay and interested crowds. For nine months in the year the warm west windsblow in from the sea ; the bleak north-east and eastare hardly known. There is no snowfall to speak of,and there are but few days on which one may not enjoyat least a few hours of bright sunshine. It is littlewonder, therefore, that more and more, of late, the 62 West Coast Watering-Places pleasant sea-coast town has become almost as mucha winter as a summer resort. Even more wonderful has been the rise of that otherand more democratic seaside ple
. The London & North-Western Railway . comes the pleasant head-quarters of gay and interested crowds. For nine months in the year the warm west windsblow in from the sea ; the bleak north-east and eastare hardly known. There is no snowfall to speak of,and there are but few days on which one may not enjoyat least a few hours of bright sunshine. It is littlewonder, therefore, that more and more, of late, the 62 West Coast Watering-Places pleasant sea-coast town has become almost as mucha winter as a summer resort. Even more wonderful has been the rise of that otherand more democratic seaside pleasure-city to thenorth of the Kibble estuary—Blackpool. As late asthe end of the eigh- , Y^^fe^1 : ./j . teenth century thiswas described as avillage possessing noplace of public wor-ship, where the chiefamusements were towalk upon the sandsor along the parade, a pretty grass walkon the verge of the sea-bank, divided from theroad with white :Since that descriptionwas written the changehas been mighty in-deed. The pretty grass. Cutting the Shaft in Kilsby Tunnel. walk of twojiundred yards has grown into a promenadethree and a half miles long, and the churchless villagehas grown into a great pleasure-city by the sea. Blackpool has no claim to picturesque beauty ; it hasgrown up on a flat sand coast, without mountains orwoodlands to form a background. Its chief and realcharm is the sea that rolls at its feet, with the glorious 63 London and North-Western Railway playground of firm golden sands and the ozone-ladenbreezes that bring health to the heart and colour to thecheek of the crowds of happy visitors who throng itspiers and esplanades. To these natural attractions theenterprise of the place has added the charms of amighty Eiffel Tower and a Great Wheel, from whichvast views are to be enjoyed over sea and land, and inconnection with which a whole world of entertainment—zoos and theatres and dancing-halls—offer abundantoccupation for the few rainy days to which the
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