10:30, 10 May 2025Updated 12:13, 10 May 2025 Blackpool's Pontins sight was booming in the 60's and 70's(Image: Getty Images) ...

Blackpool's Pontins sight was booming in the 60s and 70s (Image: Getty Images) Ocean Parcs, which once owned the firm, cited dwindling numbers of visitors as the catalyst for the closure.

Matt said the Pontins in Southport appeared as if "time had stood still", noting that the holiday apartments remain untouched, complete with kitchen gadgets and furnishings inside each flat.

Ocean Parcs, owner of the Pontin’s holiday camp chain, said it will close its Blackpool park due to poor trading and an unwillingness to invest funds to revamp the 40-year-old resort.

Once a bustling family holiday destination, Pontins holiday camp in Blackpool is now barely recognisable. The site, which welcomed countless families from the 60s through to the turn of the millennium ...

Fred Pontin acquired the site in 1961, transforming it into an affordable family hotspot in Lytham St Anne, near Blackpool. Despite a tragic plane crash on the site, the park persevered and ...