The Home of Blackpool Illuminations – built for success.
The Blackpool Illuminations production team comprises highly skilled and experienced professionals, including engineers, technicians, artists, animators, and riggers, operating from a state-of-the-art facility known as ‘Lightworks,’ conveniently located near Blackpool Airport.
Lightworks is a £7.5 million custom-built design and manufacturing facility that serves as a unique resource for the production, storage, and maintenance of light installations. This innovative hub acts as a center for various forms of light work, generating business development opportunities, particularly in response to the rising interest in light festivals.
The team possesses extensive experience in fabricating installations utilising a diverse array of materials.
2025 Olly Murs
2024 Mel B (Scary Spice)
2023 Sophie Ellis-Bextor
2022 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
2021 Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas
2020 Britain’s Coronavirus NHS Heroes
2019 Lucy Fallon
2018 Alfie Boe
2017 Star Trek: Discovery (Jason Isaacs) and Diversity
2016 Barbara Windsor
2015 Tim Burton
2014 Peter Kay
2013 Jonathan Ross
2012 6 of Team GB’s London 2012 medallists. (Beth Tweddle, Greg Rutherford, Karina Bryant, Luke Campbell, Max Whitlock and Sophie Hosking)
2011 Keith Lemon
2010 Robbie Williams
2009 Alan Carr
2008 The Stig with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond from BBC Top Gear
2007 David Tennant
2006 Dale Winton
2005 Chris Evans
2004 Geri Halliwell
2003 Blue
2002 Ronan Keating
2001 Steps
2000 Westlife
1999 Gary Barlow
1998 Wayne Sleep
1997 Michael Ball
1996 Eternal
1995 Bee Gees
1994 Shirley Bassey
1993 Status Quo
1992 Lisa Stansfield
1991 Derek Jameson and Judith Chalmers
1990 Julie Goodyear and Roy Barraclough
1989 Frank Bruno
1988 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman
1987 Frank Bough, Anne Gregg and Kathy Tayler, from the BBC’s Holiday programme
1986 Les Dawson
1985 Joanna Lumley, BBC Children in Need, and Audrey Mosson (50 year anniversary)
1984 Johannes Rau (Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia) and David Waddington,(Minister of State, the Home Office)
1983 Cast of Coronation Street, switched on by Doris Speed
1982 Rear Admiral Sandy Woodward
1981 Earl & Countess Spencer
1980 Cannon and Ball
1979 Kermit the Frog and The Muppets
1978 Terry Wogan
1977 Red Rum
1976 Carol Jean Grant (Miss United Kingdom)
1975 Cast of Doctor Who: Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen and Ian Marter
1974 Wendy Craig
1973 Gordon Banks
1972 Danny La Rue
1971 The cast of Dad’s Army
1970 Tony Blackburn
1969 Canberra Bomber
1968 Matt Busby
1967 Horace King
1966 Ken Dodd
1965 David Tomlinson
1964 Gracie Fields
1963 Cliff Michelmore
1962 Shirley Anne Field
1961 Violet Carson
1960 Janet Munro
1959 Jayne Mansfield
1958 A. E. “Matty” Matthews
1957 John H. Whitney (American Ambassador)
1956 Reginald Dixon
1955 Yakov Malik (Soviet Ambassador)
1954 Gilbert Harding
1953 George Formby
1952 Valerie Hobson
1951 Stanley Matthews
1950 Wilfred Pickles
1949 Anna Neagle
1939–1948 Cancelled due to World War II
1938 Councillor Mabel A. Quayle (Mayoress of Blackpool; first woman councillor)
1937 Prince George, Duke of Kent
1936 Sir Josiah Stamp
1935 Audrey Mosson (Railway Queen of Great Britain)
1934 Lord Derby
