Mobility scooter outside The Talbot pub with Reform UK signs in Blackpool, Lancashire.

Mobility scooter outside The Talbot pub with Reform UK signs in Blackpool, Lancashire. Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

3FW39GF

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51.4 MB (1.7 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

3648 x 4920 px | 30.9 x 41.7 cm | 12.2 x 16.4 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

17 October 2026

Location:

46 Milbourne Street, Blackpool, FY1 3LL, Lancashire, England, UK

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The Talbot public house in Blackpool is shown from a comparatively close, almost frontal pavement viewpoint, with an enclosed mobility scooter or small powered mobility vehicle parked immediately outside the ground-floor entrance. Its curved clear windscreen, dark canopy, compact wheels and rounded front panel make it the most noticeable object in the lower foreground. The building behind has a turquoise or bright blue painted lower facade, with large Reform UK signs mounted across parts of the brickwork and beside the entrance. A red-brick upper storey contains rectangular windows with pale surrounds, producing a sharp contrast between older pub architecture and the more recently applied colourful political branding. White and blue political display panels are arranged above the vehicle and along the pub exterior, while the street-level doorway is partly hidden by the parked scooter. One large panel bears THE TALBOT; neighbouring signs show Reform UK lettering and other party-associated graphics. The framing gives equal weight to a familiar Blackpool neighbourhood public house and a conspicuously political use of its frontage. The venue stands on Milbourne Street, in a built-up part of Blackpool rather than the open seafront. The small vehicle's clear cover resembles a weather shelter for mobility transport, an especially visible detail beside a premises associated with local gathering and social life. The building's brick bond, painted base, roof-edge line and rectangular openings remain distinguishable despite the covering of commercial and political signs. This image differs from a wider companion view of the pub by concentrating on the parked mobility vehicle, entrance and signage in a tightly cropped frontage. Turquoise paint continues around the corner and across the window surrounds, contrasting with the maroon-red brick of the first floor. The parked vehicle faces slightly towards the left side of the photograph.