Popular UK seaside pier opens famous Paris-like attraction this summer
BLACKPOOL Pleasure Beach has opened a brand-new attraction that you may have seen before.
The new love-lock installation is similar to ones found in Paris, New York and parts of London.
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Yesterday, Blackpool‘s Central Pier opened its new addition, a huge, red, love-lock installation.
Text on the heart reads ‘Heart of Central Pier’, ‘We Love Central Pier’.
The new display allows couples and visitors to attach their own padlocks to the heart, which is a trend that occurs in cities all over the world.
Visitors can buy a new lock and attach it to the heart frame, they can be bought from the ride pay boxes for £5 each.
The new installation has been met with positivity, one person wrote on Facebook: “Blackpool is where i found my Teen love after nearly 35 yrs so deffo want to buy 1 for here.”
Another said: “We coming on friday and its our 20 year anniversary so will defo be doing this x.”
Love locks are a trend in cities across the world, the largest being on the 400-metre-long Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany.
It’s considered the world’s largest and most famous love-lock bridge.
Another famous display is the Pont des Arts in Paris.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach is taking steps closer to building a ride that will be “tallest of its kind” – a record-breaking gyro-swing called Aviktas.
The ride will carry 40 people at a time, swinging them through a massive 120-degree arc that reaches 138ft above the promenade.
An exact open date hasn’t been confirmed, but the ride is expected to welcome its first passengers later in the year.