Castle Hotel

The Castle Hotel was a Blackpool hostelry that the menfolk of Coronation Street congregated in when they visited the resort one evening in October 1961 to see the famous illuminations.

Len Fairclough chose the place to gather at, giving his fellow drinkers there directions by saying it was the pub opposite the second gents' after the south pier, and Jack Walker and Frank Barlow used that advice to locate the others there already occupying the lounge bar. There they found Len, Alf Roberts, Bill Gregory, Albert Tatlock and Doreen Lostock. Len and Alf had had a bet on to see which of them could get Doreen into the ghost train on the Pleasure Beach but she had outfoxed them and had spent the evening chatting to Albert. The two men therefore had to console themselves with yet more drink.