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Rebooting Blackpool’s classic car park

75-year-old Talbot Road car park given a complete makeover

Mark Moran
25 October 2013
The new look Talbot Road (Potter & Holmes)
The new look Talbot Road (Potter & Holmes)

 

Blackpool has what looks like a brand new car park, a glass panelled structure which, like the Lancashire coastal resort’s famed promenade, provides a colourful spectacle at night. The really intriguing thing about this contemporary car park, however, is that it is actually 75 years old. Talbot Road is one of the UK’s oldest car parks, having been built by the city council in 1937. A steel frame encased in concrete, this was an innovative Art Deco structure. However, years of...

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