UR Potential LGBT youth groups
A Blackpool youth organisation running LGBT youth groups for 13 to 25-year-olds across the Fylde coast, plus family support.
Central Drive
From the Tower area towards Bloomfield Road, home of the organisation behind the town's LGBT youth groups.
Central Drive runs south from Bank Hey Street and Albert Road, a little inland from the Golden Mile, towards Waterloo Road and Bloomfield Road. Steam trains once arrived alongside it at Blackpool Central station, so for generations it was the first street holidaymakers saw, with guest houses, rock and joke shops, chip shops and the main central car park. Part of it was once a lane running from Spen Green Lane, now Bloomfield Road, to Rigby Road.
LGBT youth groups
A youth and community organisation based on Central Drive, founded around 2010, runs the main LGBT youth provision on the Fylde coast, with groups for LGBT and questioning young people, a trans-only group and a family support group. It also runs the Blackpool Youth Council and is a third-party hate crime reporting centre, so young people can report to people they already know. See young LGBTQ+ people and hate crime.
Around the street
Locally listed buildings include the King Edward pub and the King Edward holiday flats, and Holy Cross Church. Bloomfield Road, Blackpool FC's ground, is at the southern end, about two miles from Blackpool North.
Getting here
The northern end is a few minutes from the Tower. For the southern end, Blackpool South station is about half a mile from Bloomfield Road.
Support and services on Central Drive
More about Central Drive on this site
- LGBTQ+ youth groups in Blackpool
- Reporting hate crime in Blackpool
- Is Blackpool safe for LGBTQ+ visitors?
- UR Potential LGBT youth groups
- Lancashire Police hate crime reporting
Sources
- Wikipedia: South Shore, Blackpool
- Wikipedia: Bloomfield Road
- Blackpool Council: locally listed buildings
More streets
Abingdon StreetThe historic shopping street, a Be Who You Want To Be priority street, with the market and the listed old post office.Topping StreetBetween Talbot Road and Church Street, with Churchills, Aunty Social and the memory of Sapphires.Church StreetThe town's theatre street, with the Winter Gardens, the Grand Theatre and Viva, plus the Horizon drug service.Charles StreetJust east of the station in the town centre, with the W3 Complex men's sauna.Buchanan StreetA town-centre link between Talbot Road and Church Street, with busy bus stops.Edward StreetHome of the local Samaritans branch, with a rare 1860s terrace behind Abingdon Street.Bank Hey StreetBehind the Tower, with Showtown and its Pride Beside the Seaside tours, and the Tower's step-free entrance.Adelaide StreetThe south side of the Winter Gardens, and the name of an LGBT quality-mark GP practice.Elizabeth StreetJust east of the station, with Adelaide Street Family Practice at number 61.South King StreetHome of South King Street Medical Centre, a GP practice with the LGBT inclusion quality mark.Chapel StreetBy Central Pier and the Central car park, and the 1970s home of a shop called Gone Gay.Every streetThe full list, from the quarter to Bispham and South Shore.