Explore Blackpool at your own pace

Blackpool's towers and illuminations belong to the visitors. The streets and promenade between them belong to a different town - the tram drivers who ran Britain's first electric street tramway from 1885, the steeplejacks who fixed five million Accrington bricks into the sky, the ballroom organist who played for forty years without missing a Whit Sunday, the pier keepers who handed out deckchairs at dawn, the landladies on Charnley Road who took in mill workers by the dozen, the electricians who strung up eight arc lamps before Edison had patented the bulb. This is the Blackpool that the Blackpool Gazette and the boardinghouse registers remembered - the workers whose names rarely made it onto the illuminations.

Photo: Luke Ellis-Craven, Unsplash

Tour details

Duration: 48 minutes, entirely at your own pace

Distance: around 1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Stops: 9 landmarks, including Blackpool North railway station, Winter Gardens, Church Street, Blackpool, Grand Theatre, Church Street, Blackpool

Audio: up to 23 minutes of narration

Starts at: Blackpool North railway station

Map data by Mapbox and OpenStreetMap contributors

How it works

Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.

Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.

Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.

Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop

An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks

Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal

Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like

Lifetime access - your code never expires

Where you will stop

Blackpool North railway station

Winter Gardens, Church Street, Blackpool

Grand Theatre, Church Street, Blackpool

Tower Ballroom, Blackpool Tower

Blackpool Tower

Comedy Carpet, Blackpool Tower, Central Promenade

Blackpool Illuminations, Central Promenade

Blackpool Promenade Tram Stop, North Promenade

North Pier, Blackpool

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary

Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere

At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want

Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.

It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.

The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.

You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.

Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Francis Heathcote, Luke Ellis-Craven, Mark mc neill (Unsplash).

Description supplied by the event organiser.