Cocker Street

Cocker Street runs inland from Cocker Square on the Promenade, across Dickson Road and Lord Street, to High Street. General Street, Exchange Street, Lang Street, Howard Street, Wall Street and Francis Street join it. It is about 480 metres long and about a fifth of a mile from Blackpool North station, with the postcodes FY1 1SF, FY1 2BY, FY1 2BZ, FY1 2DP and FY1 2EB.

The street is named after Dr William Henry Cocker (1836 to 1911), a surgeon who became Blackpool's first mayor in 1876.

Places to stay and drink

Cocker Street is full of small hotels and guest houses, several of them LGBTQ+.

• Chaps Hotel, at the seafront end, is an LGBTQ+ hotel.
• Evanescent is a hotel with its own public bar.
• Secrets, at 19 Cocker Street, is a bar next door to Evanescent; pair the two for a short stop before heading back to Lord Street.
• The B&B Blackpool, also at 19, is a simple, budget-friendly stay.

During Pride 2026 the Rainbow Quarter Street Party filled Lord Street from Springfield Road to Cocker Street.

Parking

Two small council car parks sit at this end of the quarter, both open 24 hours with a 1.9 metre height limit:

• Cocker Street car park (satnav FY1 2BY): 28 spaces including 2 Blue Badge bays. PayByPhone code 803817.
• Cocker Square car park (satnav FY1 1RX): 22 spaces including 2 Blue Badge bays. PayByPhone code 803816.

Both charge the same car rates as Banks Street. See parking and arrival.

History

Cocker Street has a special place in transport history. On 29 September 1885 Blackpool opened the country's first permanent electric tramway, along the Promenade from the Cocker Street end to Dean Street. Until 1900 the trams went no further north than Cocker Square. The street also had sea-water baths, bought by the town in 1911 and demolished around 1973, and old photographs show a Methodist church at number 16 and a Wesleyan church on the corner of Dickson Road.

Getting here

Walk up Dickson Road from the station and turn towards the sea, or walk north along the Promenade from North Pier.