The Blackpool Rock
Title | The Blackpool Rock PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Sinclair |
Publisher | Milo Books Ltd |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2016-04-07 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN |
To the police he was Public Enemy Number One. To drunken gangs of yobs intent on trouble, he was a nightmare come true. Steve Sinclair was the toughest doorman in the wildest resort in Britain - and if you crossed him, payback was swift and certain. Blackpool, once a byword for cheeky family fun, was by the 1980s a violent town plagued by lager louts, drug dealers and villains intent on muscling in on the lucrative club trade. Sinclair worked the biggest clubs and the roughest doors. He and his associates fought hundreds of battles against football hooligans, gang members and rival hardmen. They were also branded gangsters and were blamed by the police for serious unsolved crimes. Described by On The Doors magazine as 'a compelling, gripping and fascinating tale', THE BLACKPOOL ROCK is a candid insight into the dangerous world of the modern doorman and of the extreme methods he sometimes employs to defend himself and his customers and uphold his hard-won reputation.
The Story of Blackpool Rock
Title | The Story of Blackpool Rock PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Race |
Publisher | |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Candy |
ISBN | 9780951652305 |
A Stick of Blackpool Rock
Title | A Stick of Blackpool Rock PDF eBook |
Author | M. Thornton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 9780747217480 |
Blackpool Lass
Title | Blackpool Lass PDF eBook |
Author | Maggie Mason |
Publisher | Sphere |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2018-07-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0751573140 |
The perfect read for fans of Mary Wood, Kitty Neale, Val Wood and Nadine Dorries Orphaned and destitute, will Grace find her own way in the world? When Grace's Ma passes away and her Da's ship sinks with all hands, Grace is utterly alone in the world. She's sent to an orphanage in Blackpool, but the master has an eye for a pretty young lass. Grace won't be his victim, so she runs, destitute, into the night. In Blackpool, she finds a home with the kindly Sheila and Peggy - and meets a lovely airman. But it's 1938, and war is on the horizon. Will Grace ever find the happiness and home she deserves?
Stick of Blackpool Rock
Title | Stick of Blackpool Rock PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Thornton |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2002-03-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781840674118 |
Wild Tales
Title | Wild Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Nash |
Publisher | |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Autobiography |
ISBN | 0385347545 |
A founding member of the bands Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Hollies shares the story of his life from his youth in post-war England through his creative relationship with Joni Mitchell and his career as a solo musician and political activist
Blackpool in Film and Popular Music
Title | Blackpool in Film and Popular Music PDF eBook |
Author | Ewa Mazierska |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2020-08-12 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3030499359 |
This collection examines Blackpool, Britain’s first and largest working-class seaside resort as a location for the production and consumption of British film and popular music, and the meaning of ‘Blackpool’ in films and songs. It examines representation of Blackpool in films such as Hindle Wakes, A Taste of Honey, Bhaji on the Beach, Away, Bob’s Weekend, The Harry Hill Movie and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, linking it to the concepts of heterotopia, purgatory, fantasy, simulacra and the carnivalesque. It also presents music in Blackpool through the history of its venues and examines development of punk and grime music in this seaside town. The authors argue that Blackpool in filmic and musical texts often stands for British culture, but increasingly for culture which is remembered or imagined rather than present and real.