Blackpool Beach Base Jumping
If you thought the Blackpool Tower was tall you can only imagine the stir that a yellow crane, of about the same height, arriving on the Blackpool promenade, caused. The good news was the crane was not for construction but for people to base-jump from. Base jumping is quite rightly […]
Blackpool’s Penny Arcades- Harmless Fun?
This week, a well-known Blackpool newspaper featured a sobering story about a man who grew up in Wesham and would while away the summers in Fleetwood and Cleveleys penny arcades. A harmless bit of fun? Through his involvement in the penny arcades he developed an unbreakable habit of […]
Pokemon Go-es Wild in Blackpool
The hottest thing in Blackpool right now is not the weather but a game called Pokemon Go. The local Pokemon Go Centre social media group went wild in Blackpool this month. If you haven’t heard about this app already then maybe you have been wondering why people have […]
Flooding the Blackpool Ballroom
This is not a confession! Poulton Plumbing did not flood any Ballrooms in Blackpool. Actually, the Chinese did, that is; flooding it with dance! For those that don dancing shoes and for those who don’t, it is well known that Blackpool continues to be a hotspot for the dancing […]
A fashionable taste for the seaside…
Fashion sometimes dictates the way our future is determined whether we like it or not. In fact it was fashion itself that made Blackpool one of the nation’s favourite beach hotspots. In the mid-18 th century it became the ‘fashionable’ thing to do, to visit the shores of […]
No Drizzle Please!
Why is it that when the sun comes out we start to panic? We panic when we can’t find the sun cream for the kids because we can’t remember the last time we had to use it. We panic that there will be no burgers, sausages and baps left because […]
A Black day for Blackpool
Monday mornings are never easy. But one week was much harder than most. One Monday recently Blackpool seemed to be duller than usual as it lost a ray of sun. That ray of sun was Mr Eddie Collet, our former Mayor. He lost his battle with cancer at the […]
What is a ‘wet system’?
When it comes to heating systems for buildings there are several different systems. The most popular being what we call a ‘wet system.’ What does this mean? The system uses a fuel to heat water and then circulates the hot water through pipes to radiators and tank heaters for hot […]
A Cold War underground museum in Ottawa is experiencing an embarrassing problem; the urinals and plumbing system are no longer fit for purpose. This is presenting an awkward problem for visitors.
The building (bunker) was carefully designed in 1959 by the President to house government officials in case of nuclear attack and became a Museum […]
A Sizzling Summer?One week of summer and our heads are a buzz with visions of endless BBQs and Pimms in the garden. Well there is no harm in dreaming is there?
Poulton Plumbing does not want to spoil your fun but they want to remind you of a few important things to enable you to […]
