Bystander account by Paul Maynard MP 9/12/2022 I attended the Reclaim the Night march as I believe it is important that everyone can enjoy a night out without fear of intimidation and harassment. The second instance of catcalling I witnessed was on passing Ma Kelly’s where an older...
Bystander account by Paul Maynard MP 9/12/2022 I attended the Reclaim the Night march as I believe it is important that everyone can enjoy a night out without fear of intimidation and harassment. Because I was coming to join a bit late from another event, I had almost caught up the march...
2022 C, aged 41 I was walking into town yesterday morning (Wednesday 30th November) for a meeting, when a man aged about 30 started shouting after me. I kept walking as I didn’t know him and I just felt something was ‘off’. He got closer and he was calling “Hello...
2022 Aged 17 I was walking home with dinner in my hand. When I was crossing the road a man walked passed me and said I had ‘beautiful knockers on my chest’. I continued home concerned and then I noticed 3 separate men in different cars looking at me up and down and whistling. I was only...
2001 Aged 13
Waiting for the bus with friends and a man starting shouting things at us, asking if we wanted it. He was wearing a kilt and just got everything out and shook it at us. He walked away laughing.
1992, C, aged 14 A fire engine went past as I was walking past Bispham Police Station, and the firemen were hanging out of the windows shouting things like ‘Nice tits!’ and ‘You in the black dress, want a shag?’. They drove around the roundabout twice to make sure...
2010 Sam, age 20 I was walking from the train station to near where Wilkinson’s was as a man drove around the one way system at the time, catcalling out of his van window, as he wasn’t paying attention he then drove into the railings and took his bumper off his van and hit the...
2021 Elizabeth Wilkinson, aged 42
I walked along the street at 12 noon on a Monday, and a car pulled up alongside me and a man leaned out and shouted “Give us a blowie!”
2004 B, aged 21
Walking home from the shops heavily pregnant, a man slowed down his truck, leaned out the window and heckled me shouting, “Oi love, yes you, show us your tits”. I stood dumbfounded and then gave him the finger.
2021 Aged 42
Riding on my mobility scooter and a group of lads in a car shouted obscene things at me
2021 Aged 42
Standing huddled up in the cold with my book, a man on a moped rode past yelling “Oi Oi!” at me
1997 Lindsay, aged 21 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...
1996 Lindsay, aged 20 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...
1995 Lindsay, aged 19 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...
1994 Lindsay, aged 18 I worked in town from the age of 16 to 21. Every summer I would walk to or from work at various times as I worked shifts. I was wearing work trousers and no makeup and my hair tied up. Every single summer I would reach the area of Central drive daily around Bonny...