{"id":1318,"date":"2016-01-11T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2016-01-11T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:03:47","slug":"more-catch-up-this-time-from-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/more-catch-up-this-time-from-blackpool\/","title":{"rendered":"More catch-up. This time from Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These photos are from an Ingress related trip to Blackpool that we called <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+GregCoxAer\/posts\/Ea28humJYSS\" target=\"_blank\">Tidal Wave<\/a>. This was way back on 15th August 2015. The link is to a sitrep of the adventure.<\/p>\n<p>I vaguely remember a &#8220;works&#8221; outing to Blackpool back in the days I worked at Renold Power Transmission in Bradford so this might be my second ever trip to Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p>As usual you can click on the image to see it on flickr but this time I am going to put the text under the image. That is the more common place for it but seems slightly wrong when you are scrolling down. Let&#8217;s see how it goes.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Blackpool Tower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24295448066\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1652\/24295448066_f8315e3514_z.jpg\" alt=\"Blackpool Tower\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackpool Tower with the ballroom under it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"The Big Wheel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24321620315\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1521\/24321620315_28f61cf78b_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Wheel\" width=\"640\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Big Wheel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"The Big Wheel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24295444156\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1496\/24295444156_24c210d157_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Wheel\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I don&#8217;t know what these things are but they make a nice frame for the Big Wheel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Blackpool Tower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24239088811\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1466\/24239088811_076c8d69b9_z.jpg\" alt=\"Blackpool Tower\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">and framing the tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I could imagine the winds coming off the sea making those pipes play haunting music. Can anyone tell me what they actually are?<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Looking towards the Pleasure Beach\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/23693375724\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1645\/23693375724_a2bc886d3d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Looking towards the Pleasure Beach\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High tide looking towards the pleasure beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Blackpool Tower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24025995970\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1471\/24025995970_d3041d288f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Blackpool Tower\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yet another view of the tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"A typical Blackpool B &amp; B street\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24321594135\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1566\/24321594135_4533e201be_z.jpg\" alt=\"A typical Blackpool B &amp; B street\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At right angles to the sea front are streets full of Bed &amp; Breakfast places.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Stanley Park, Blackpool\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24295417626\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1652\/24295417626_3c8244cda8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Stanley Park, Blackpool\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Stanley Park, Blackpool where we met after turning a fair bit of Blackpool blue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Stanley Park, Blackpool\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/23694755963\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1650\/23694755963_c6514db55a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Stanley Park, Blackpool\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the roads leading to Stanley Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Stanley Park, Blackpool. Cake was provided :)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/23953796409\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1651\/23953796409_a4795127cc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Stanley Park, Blackpool. Cake was provided :)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is some of my fellow Ingressors &#8211; Richard provided cake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Stanley Park, Blackpool\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/23694776683\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1673\/23694776683_95abb4d376_z.jpg\" alt=\"Stanley Park, Blackpool\" width=\"640\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">and another group of them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Blackpool Tower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24321606995\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1536\/24321606995_7fdda17f8b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Blackpool Tower\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tide has now gone out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Blackpool Tower\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/24213391002\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1653\/24213391002_7d4537e45c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Blackpool Tower\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what the tower looked like when I was getting the car to drive back to Baildon with a couple of detours to drop people off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos are from an Ingress related trip to Blackpool that we called Tidal Wave. This was way back on 15th August 2015. The link is to a sitrep of the adventure. I vaguely remember a &#8220;works&#8221; outing to Blackpool back in the days I worked at Renold Power Transmission in Bradford so this might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}