Talk:Blackpool Illuminations

message: on the 30th january 2008 the first blackpool illuminations sale took place in the rigby road depot .
Various retired illuminations where up for sale ranging from small individule items to a full tableaux and even a model of thunderbird 3.
the sale was so succesful it will no be held annually  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.35.217 (talk) 18:19, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  iluuminations sale  

message: Is there ans place in this article to say the term is used as a simile to mean gaudy or over-decorated (something like that)? I for example just said that overlinking on an article made it lit up like Blackpool Illuminations (I knew my audience would understand the allusion.)
I don't know how common this expression is, and doubt it is heard outside the UK. I'm in Cambridgeshire (actually never been to Blackpool). SimonTrew (talk) 15:26, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simile/Metaphor 

message: As I've been the victim of IP bias on some pages (i.e. edits reverted without explanation), I should add my corrections regarding the two Doctor Who-related lightings come from the following sources: Tom Baker accompanied by Sladen and Marter - there is a photo of them doing the lighting on Baker's homepage . The source for Tennant doing the 2007 event solo comes from a documentary included in the Doctor Who Complete Series 4 DVD box set (that and also the fact Billie Piper was no longer a cast member; if he'd been accompanied by anyone it would have been Freema Agyeman or Catherine Tate). 68.146.78.43 (talk) 16:05, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: David Tennant 2007

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message: The lead sentence states:
"they run each year for 66 days, from late August until early November"
However, both the dates that were here for last year's illuminations and the dates I've found for this year contradict this – they cover a four-month period from early September to early January the following year.  Is the statement in the lead just out of date, or is the longer period temporary? — Smjg (talk) 17:10, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction over dates