Town with highest rate of deaths linked to alcohol, drug abuse and suicide in England
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68435667
Just a bit of a personal rant to brighten up your Friday....
This town is 15 miles from where I grew up. We used to go there for a day out by the seaside. I actually busked there a couple of times and did quite well for beer money. It was always a bit on the rough side, but it sounds really bad now. My parents lived in a relatively nice suburb, but visiting home over the years I could also see the town I grew up in deteriorating. It's very depressing.
Blackpool is a town plagued by too many preventable fatalities linked to alcohol, drug abuse and suicide - collectively described by the bleakly poetic phrase "deaths of despair" by health researchers.
A study of deaths recorded at coroners' courts across England suggests that between 2019 and 2021, about 46,200 people lost their lives in this way - the equivalent of 42 people every day.
And research suggests Paul's hometown of Blackpool has the highest rate of these deaths.
In Blackpool the rate is 83.8 for every 100,000 deaths."There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool
That's noted for fresh air and fun
And Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son...."I was only joking
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68435667
Just a bit of a personal rant to brighten up your Friday....
This town is 15 miles from where I grew up. We used to go there for a day out by the seaside. I actually busked there a couple of times and did quite well for beer money. It was always a bit on the rough side, but it sounds really bad now. My parents lived in a relatively nice suburb, but visiting home over the years I could also see the town I grew up in deteriorating. It's very depressing.
Blackpool is a town plagued by too many preventable fatalities linked to alcohol, drug abuse and suicide - collectively described by the bleakly poetic phrase "deaths of despair" by health researchers.
A study of deaths recorded at coroners' courts across England suggests that between 2019 and 2021, about 46,200 people lost their lives in this way - the equivalent of 42 people every day.
And research suggests Paul's hometown of Blackpool has the highest rate of these deaths.
In Blackpool the rate is 83.8 for every 100,000 deaths."There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool
That's noted for fresh air and fun
And Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son...."@Doctor-Phibes Why do you think it has gone degraded?
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@Doctor-Phibes Why do you think it has gone degraded?
@taiwan_girl said in Town with highest rate of deaths linked to alcohol, drug abuse and suicide in England:
@Doctor-Phibes Why do you think it has gone degraded?
That part of northern England has really suffered as traditional industry closed. When I was a kid there was a docks, the remnants of old mill type industries, as well as a number of aerospace factories and auto manufacturers. Most of it is gone, except for a big BAE systems factory which is still there where they build military jets. Blackpool will also have struggled even more due to Covid - it's like a cut-price version of Disneyland, and during off-season there's really nothing to do there at all. Lancashire winters aren't really ideal for holiday ideas. The summer's aren't that great either, to be honest
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68435667
Just a bit of a personal rant to brighten up your Friday....
This town is 15 miles from where I grew up. We used to go there for a day out by the seaside. I actually busked there a couple of times and did quite well for beer money. It was always a bit on the rough side, but it sounds really bad now. My parents lived in a relatively nice suburb, but visiting home over the years I could also see the town I grew up in deteriorating. It's very depressing.
Blackpool is a town plagued by too many preventable fatalities linked to alcohol, drug abuse and suicide - collectively described by the bleakly poetic phrase "deaths of despair" by health researchers.
A study of deaths recorded at coroners' courts across England suggests that between 2019 and 2021, about 46,200 people lost their lives in this way - the equivalent of 42 people every day.
And research suggests Paul's hometown of Blackpool has the highest rate of these deaths.
In Blackpool the rate is 83.8 for every 100,000 deaths."There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool
That's noted for fresh air and fun
And Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son....""There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool
That's noted for fresh air and fun
And Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son...."My grandfather and his cousin, my great uncle (it’s confusing), used to reminisce about a family trip to Blackpool before they left England in 1906. Must have been quite a trip (68 miles) in those days as they were not much for travelling much beyond the immediate area in and around Calderdale. The 16 mile trip even to Leeds was a considered a huge undertaking.
Anyhow, Grandfather’s cousin, uncle Frank, used to recite by heart the story of Albert
and the Lion in full West York’s dialect right up to a year before he passed at 96 years. -
"There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool
That's noted for fresh air and fun
And Mr. and Mrs. Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son...."My grandfather and his cousin, my great uncle (it’s confusing), used to reminisce about a family trip to Blackpool before they left England in 1906. Must have been quite a trip (68 miles) in those days as they were not much for travelling much beyond the immediate area in and around Calderdale. The 16 mile trip even to Leeds was a considered a huge undertaking.
Anyhow, Grandfather’s cousin, uncle Frank, used to recite by heart the story of Albert
and the Lion in full West York’s dialect right up to a year before he passed at 96 years.@Renauda said in Town with highest rate of deaths linked to alcohol, drug abuse and suicide in England:
Anyhow, Grandfather’s cousin, uncle Frank, used to recite by heart the story of Albert
and the Lion in full West York’s dialect right up to a year before he passed at 96 years.Funnily enough, my dad knew it by heart too, although he, like Stanley Holloway, was from London. We had a record of it when I was a kid - that, and A Child's Christmas in Wales, got a lot of playtime on the old record player.
