Nestled unobtrusively under the Houndshill shopping centre in the middle of Blackpool is the Galleon. Astute punters prepared to pay the entry fee of 50p (a bargain) descend underground into a smoke filled bar designed by an architect who clearly thought anyone over 5‘8’ to be excessively tall. In season customers often find themselves in the company of Blackpools show stars, eg Russ Abbott, Chubby Brown etc who find The Galleon to be a secluded place to get a quiet drink away from an admiring public. Punters take heed. Out of season it is a favorite drinking haunt for students from the art school and nurses

The Galleon can be a disturbing phenomenon as far public houses go, this can be put down to the interior design. Regulars are used to reasuring new visitors the reason the fish swimming in the tanks set into the wall don’t seem to be getting very far is that they are in fact plastic and suspended in fibreglass resin:

Should you just happen per chance to have with you , say a guitar, trumpet, clarinet or as in one memorable incident when an accomodating whole had to be cut into the ceiling a double bass; you are most welcome to join in with the one eyed drummer ‘Schultz’ and his partner ‘Teddy’. Just so long as you know the music to ‘My baby just cares for me’ or ‘Slow boat to China’. It even has an 8’x8’ dance floor (more than enough) next to the full size ships wheel.

Patrons are easy going patient people used to stepping over bodies.

The Galleon should never be visited during the hours of daylight.