Seaside town's heritage list wish

Many of the original buildings are still intact

Blackpool wants to join the Great Wall of China, the Tower of London and Liverpool's waterfront on the list of World Heritage sites.

The council believes it deserves recognition as it was the first working class seaside holiday resort.

Pat Hansel from the council said Blackpool has "a great significance to a lot of people".

Council officials have put together a bid to present to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

It will then be presented to Unesco, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, who select the sites - but they must be recognised as being of outstanding universal value.

Blackpool was the first working class seaside holiday resort

Liverpool's bid to become a World Heritage Site was approved by the United Nations in China in 2004.

Pat Hansel said: "It was the first working class seaside holiday resort in the country and we've still got quite a lot of the buildings and the entertainment and the infrastructure that people used many years ago.

"And that's what World Heritage Site status is about: it's not about being pretty, it's about being important. And Blackpool is important."

Blackpool has surviving Victorian, Edwardian and inter-war entertainment complexes, historic piers, tower and trams.

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