These days more than 3.5 million people visit the award winning nine week spectacle, a six mile electrical extravaganza shining from September until November. 

The Children will love the television characters alongside shimmering tableau coupled with the roadway section of leaded lights a section of beautiful illuminated stained glass window scheme.

With more than a million light bulbs the latest laser technology Blackpool Illuminations is as always light years ahead of its time just as it was 125 years ago.

Combined with fireworks and a carnival atmosphere the dazzling display attracts a whopping 3.5 million people. The rest as they say is history. Sparking Blackpool's tradition of light and electricity.