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The Promenade was decorated with what was described as 'festoons of garland lamps' using about 10,000 light bulbs. The first display similar to the modern-day displays was held in May 1912 to mark the first British Royal family visit to Blackpool when Princess Louise opened a new section of the Promenade, Princess Parade. The original event preceded Thomas Edison's patent of the electric light bulb by twelve months. The Illuminations were first shown in 1879 when they were described as 'Artificial sunshine', and consisted of just eight carbon arc lamps which bathed the Promenade. Since 2020 the illuminations season has been extended to run until after the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the upcoming season will run from 1 September 2023 to 1 January 2024. The display stretches along the Promenade from Starr Gate at the south end of the town to Bispham in the north. They are 6.2 miles (10 km) long and use over one million bulbs.

Annual lights festival in Blackpool, Lancashire, Englandīlackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire.Īlso known locally as The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for 66 days (since 2020, this has been extended to 100+ days), from late August until early November at a time when most other English seaside resorts' seasons are coming to an end.

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