Blackpool Promenade

Blackpool Promenade is a road and esplanade in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It runs for around, from Queen's Promenade, at Gynn Square, in the north to a junction with Squires Gate Lane and Clifton Drive North in the south. The promenade replaced a small parade which existed in the 1780s. That seafront road was subject to erosion, leading to a realigned replacement being constructed in the 1820s.
Blackpool's three piers―North, Central and South―have entrances from the esplanade, while the Blackpool Tower overlooks the promenade and esplanade from the inland side, near Central Pier.
A stretch of the promenade, between North Pier and South Pier, is called the "Golden Mile". A "comedy carpet" was installed in the esplanade, opposite Blackpool Tower, in 2011. It was designed by Gordon Young.
The town's annual Illuminations, established in 1879, run the entire length of the esplanade and promenade, plus an additional to the north, beyond Gynn Square to Red Bank Road on Bispham's Queen's Promenade.

History

When the promenade first opened, it was wide and long. By 1901, it was wide and long. In 1911, the promenade was widened between North Pier and the Claremont Esplanade. In front of the Grand Metropole Hotel, it was widened to.
On 2 October 1926, a "new promenade" was opened by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. It was an extension of the work done in 1905. The work included the section between South Pier and the land "adjoining the Borough of Lytham" further south. The Earl also opened Stanley Park the same day.
A central section of the promenade was redeveloped between May 2010 and November 2011, at a cost of around £100 million.