Mythological figures enjoying a jolly day out on Blackpool Pier

They can’t spend all their time in the underworld…

This it was that the good people of Blackpool found their fish ‘n’ chips rudely interrupted… looking up from their betting slips and tax forms to find a host of strange unwelcome visitors thronging the merry-go-rounds and boardwalks, shrieking in the funfair rides and monopolising the fruit machines… and with a light rain falling all the while as a pleasant voice with flattened vowels continued to recite the weather forecast