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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 08/08/2026

Back on the Explore page on Flickr this morning, I've been shooting this row of buildings for many years, documenting their slow decline. While the hotel no longer takes bookings, you can still read the reviews on Trip Adviser, which do raise an eyebrow to say the least 😁✌️ flic.kr/p/2stJP5K

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 18/04/2026

Still posting on Flickr (where many of us used to hang out pre Insta/Twitter etc), still love hitting the Explore page. 😁✌️ flic.kr/p/2s7SgxY

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 28/03/2026

Feeling inspired after looking at vintage digital camera photos in a Reddit group, I dusted off my tiny Canon Ixus 950 (it's the smallest camera I have ever owned - tiny) from 2007. I installed the open source firmware CHDK, to enable it to give up it's Raw files. It's now going everywhere with me!

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 01/02/2026

Excursion....I recall as a kid, going on holiday with parents and then visiting somewhere while on holiday. Now older, taking time to do the same, but for slightly different reasons. Some photographs from central Florida. #photography #streetphotography #urbanphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 30/11/2025

Way before I really started to embrace the urban photography scene, my subject matter was the beach especially sunsets and low tide at dusk.....one of the benefits living on the west coast 😁✌️ #photography #Blackpool #sunset #britishseaside #beach #ukseaside #skyphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 22/11/2025

Some more film photographs, taken over a decade ago in Blackpool, some of these spaces no longer exist, but some are still there 😁✌️I usually try to avoid people in the frame, but the pigeons are an occupational hazard 😁🐦 #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #britishseaside #filmcamera

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 30/10/2025

Adding a new roll of film and taking the first frame, was often done in the kitchen, this in turn led to a series of domestic kitchen photographs, revolving around food and drink - all shot on film 😁🍲✌️ #photography #filmcamera #sooc #foodphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 07/09/2025

Also Blackpool.....I keep thinking about a collection of non-street work, being west facing the sunsets are amazing at times, there is also some very fierce weather too, thankfully not too often 😁✌️ #Blackpool #naturephotography #britishseaside #beachphotography #sunset #skyporn #skyphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 19/07/2025

The end of the affair, or at least the end of capturing a favourite of many photographers visiting the resort wanting a break from the more traditional views. Some shots of the brutalist complex taken over the years including it's last days. #streetphotography #urbanphotography #Blackpool

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 15/06/2025

Occasionally I do take film photographs, that said it really isn't that much of late. These shots are from over a decade ago, and remain some of my favourite photographs, taken with one of my many film cameras...all shot in #Blackpool ✌️😁 #photography #filmcamera #streetphotography #urbanphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 05/05/2025

Street corners, one of my favourite approaches to capturing #Blackpool. It's something that I kind of fell into as opposed to consciously setting off to do. Perhaps an element of anticipation, expectation or the moment held.... maybe just because it looked OK 😁✌️ #streetphotography #britishseaside

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 21/04/2025

Inside one of the many fast food places and cafés across the town, I think the chair colour is 'burger bar blue' ✌️💙😁 I could photograoh these places all day long! #streetphotography #Blackpool #urbanphotography #britishseaside #fastfood

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 01/03/2025

We often talk about opportunities presenting themselves. After wandering around taking photos of the side streets, stopping to get a drink before heading home and looking up after sitting down in a popular fast food chain... #photography #peopleinthestreet #streetphotography #documentingbritain

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 27/02/2025

Being on the west coast, Blackpool is blessed with great light many evenings ✌️😃 #sunset #streetphotography #photography #urban #Blackpool #brutalist

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 22/02/2025

The omnipresent tower, a beacon a night and icon during the day. It immediately places any photograph it appears in.....though there is still the occasional confusion with a certain tower in Paris! 😁✌️ #Blackpool #streetphotography #nightphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 21/02/2025

So many phone boxes to shoot even though they are a dying bread, I still see them on the streets of Blackpool, their light illuminating the gloom of the night. ✌️😁 #Blackpool #streetphotography #nightshots #urbanphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 21/02/2025

Inside the pink building, late on Saturday night. No people about, footfall at minimum, Blackpool out of season. Days are dark and nights are long. #streetphotography #Blackpool #urbanphotography #nightphotography #britishseaside #noPeople

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 20/02/2025

The quiet of the resort during the winter months at night...cold and empty, faint hopes of warmer days to come 😁✌️ #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #nightphotography #fastfood

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 16/02/2025

The closed quiet of a seaside town out of season, it's not just the lack of people, but also the shuttered buildings and the endless grey days that completely change the atmosphere of the town 😁✌️ #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #britishseaside #urbanphotography #noPeople

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 14/02/2025

This place, old police station and courts, had been a favourite haunt of many photographers visiting the town, due to its brutalist design. Some have mixed feelings of the intent to demolish and redevelope the space 😁✌️ #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #brutalist #urbanabstractions

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 11/02/2025

Side streets and alleyways, always taking the long way home....unless it's raining ✌️😁 #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 07/02/2025

As a kid, I used to have a map of the world on my bedroom wall, staring at it as I went to sleep every night, it clearly imprinted on me in such a way that when I see render falling off walls, I immediately think of that world map 😅✌️ #photography #streetphotography #urbanphotography #StreetDreams

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 01/02/2025

This place is one of those rare finds that you have to almost rub your eyes to believe what you are seeing. A mothballed café tucked away at the back of an amusement arcade. #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #britishseaside #retrointeriors

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 29/01/2025

Capturing the multitude of fast food places around the resort when there is nobody in them became a bit of a passion project, the same way I avoid streets with cars, I have the same feeling about takeaways and people 😁✌️ #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #emptyspaces #fastfood #takeaway

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 28/01/2025

I do try to avoid scenes with cars, and will often walk away from an opportunity if there are too many. Very rare to see something like this with a lonely van being the only vehicle 😁✌️ #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #documentingbritain #urbanphotography #suburbia

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 26/01/2025

I would dearly love to spend some time photographing inside each and every one of the guest houses in the resort, but will have to stick to exteriors 😁✌️ #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #britishseaside #urbanphotography #streetshots

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 25/01/2025

Facing the west coast, as the sun starts to dip, the light takes on a warmth that transforms many of the street corners across the resort. This is one of my favourite spots and popped up on Flickr explore today too ✌️😁 #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #britishseaside #urbanphotography

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 23/01/2025

As nice as it is to see all the people having fun on a hot summer's day, seaside towns out of season have their own unique atmosphere especially at night. #Blackpool #streetphotography #nightphotography #nighthawks #photography #britishseaside #seasideglamour #outofseason

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 21/01/2025

There is definitely something about how the landscape changes at night time, and it's no different for corner shops too. This one featured on the cover of Boston Manor's album 'Datura' ✌️😁 #StreetDreams #photography #nighthawks #nightphotography #Blackpool #conveniencestore #cornershop

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 19/01/2025

Lots of fast food and take away spots, lots of low cost housing too. The appeal of night photography... #photography #Blackpool #streetphotography #nightphotography #fastfood #nighthawks #urbanphotography #streetscenes

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 18/01/2025

I'm not know for taking photographs of people in the street, and if I do it's usually because they have wandered into the frame purely by chance. This is one of those shots 😁✌️ #photography #Blackpool #peopleinthestreet #streetphotography #StreetDreams

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 17/01/2025

Gone but not forgotten, I'm thinking of revisiting some older photographs of the town. Blackpool... #seasideglamour #streetphotography #photography #Blackpool #fishandchips #urban

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 16/01/2025

Blackpool.....revisiting places to make sure that they have stayed the same. #StreetDreams #photography #seasideglamour #streetphotography #Blackpool

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 25/11/2024

All change, revisiting the spot where yesterday's IG post was taken only to find it has indeed lived up to its name and.....changed 😁✌️ #Blackpool #streetphotography #documentingbritain

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Nick Barkworth @nickbarkworth.com · 19/11/2024

Start as I mean to go on, a photograph of a street in Blackpool, just after the sun has set...😁✌️ #Blackpool #photography

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