DHSS hotel in Blackpool
Once went on a 40th birthday pissup in Blackpool, organised by a certain "PEB", who is a life long member of the stockport idiots club (but good company in the pub).He wouldn't tell us where he had booked us into until we reached said resort.
The Hotel Elkrington, turned out to be a haven for tramps and dole scum, all there paid for by the DHSS.
Checked in and went straight out on the piss for the first lunchtime session.
We returned a few hours later to find that most of the rooms had been broken into and had been burgled, one unfortunate had lost £140.
After "sorting out" one or two of the other residents to retrieve said property, ended up sleeping that night 4 to a double bed, due to lack of rooms not trashed, and for security!
4 guys sleeping perfectly still, with trollies and boots still on.
Even from the mass ranks in bed, you could smell the carpet!!!!
Returned to Blackpool the following year on a family day out, and went past the "Elkrington"
It had been closed down, and was on the point of being demolished, thank god !!!
Apologies for length and girth, but that place was truly the fucking pits !!!!
(Betty Boothroyd's Love custard Tourettes at the KOB, Fri 29 Dec 2006, 13:12, Reply)