I love the bar because of the music, but I’ve been harassed there multiple times. Men have grabbed my arse, my waist, squeezed past me whilst grabbing me as there’s “no space” which wasn’t true. One occasion that really stands out to me is when I dropped my ring on the floor. I bent down...
Nicole, aged 23 2018 On a night out, on the phone to my boyfriend and two very young men walked passed. One lifted my dress whilst the other slapped my bum REALLY hard that it set me off straight away. I started following them back with one heel in hand as they ran away. However a gang of...
Nicole, aged 18 2011 In the old Tache I just remember walking in a queue to go outside for a cigarette whilst there was a queue leading back inside, and as the queues passed one another. Someone stroked my genitals and tried to slip a finger but I was wearing tights. I just remember...
J, Aged 15 2021 I was out with someone who I was with at the time and thought I could trust. I was only 15 and had a naïve outlook on boys and what they wanted. I went out with this boy one day and we went to a park he pinned me up against a wall shoving his body into me aggressively...
Emily, aged 26 2023 A woman sat by where I was dancing in put her hand up my skirt and was touching me inappropriately. My friend addressed her about this and she apologised saying it was a “joke”. The staff were very helpful and she was kicked out and barred, but it concerns me a woman...
Lucy, aged 26 2023 There has been a number of occasions that I have been into xxxx bar and one man in particular has consistently sexually harassed and assaulted me. The first instance he put his hand up my skirt and laughed at me when I asked what he was doing. I felt extremely...
Carla Wilson, 27 2023 I was enjoying a day out for my sisters birthday and a guy decided to lift up my skirt when I was dancing. This is the first time I’ve felt good about myself in a skirt since I had a baby. Security threw the guy out which I was thankful for. However, I should...
Aged 15/16 2016 In year 11, I got sat next to a boy in maths class. We had been sat next to each other the whole year and had got to know each other well so I saw him as a friend. When we left the classroom one day, I was walking in front of him. We were the last ones to leave so there...
Jess, aged 24 2022 I was walking across the bar with my friends, both male and female. We passed through a group of men and one decided to “play the drums” on my arse as I walked by. I turned around and slapped him and he got progressively more aggressive (how dare I hit him) until he was...
Katelyn, aged 16 16 December 2022 I went out to skate at Stanley Park skate park at around 8pm and bumped into a friend. After a while he got touchy which I shut down but he wouldn’t stop to the point he was putting his hands down my pants and trying to get them off and I was crying...
Aged 18 2021 I was with two of my girl friends. One of them had been spiked and all our phones were dead, it was after 4am and we were stranded on the street in Blackpool with our friend who was unable to move or see. There was no one around. It was clear she had been spiked as she was...
Aged 31 2023 Out with my wonderful friends, dancing and a guy grabbed my friend’s arse. She told him to leave her alone. He then made a grinding motion behind me. We moved away from him and informed one of the male bouncers who said he would keep an eye on him. The bouncer, we feel...
Aged 13 2012 I was 13 at a friend’s birthday party and a few of us left to drink alcohol on the nearby park. I was so drunk I could barely stand and remember falling asleep/passing out not long before. My ‘boyfriend’ at the time, whom I’d been with a few weeks, took me off into the trees...
Scarlett, Aged 17 2017 I was hanging out with two “friends” in Ashton Gardens at around 10 at night. One of them needed to get on the bus home back to Blackpool and the other said he would wait and walk me back home and then go get the bus. After dropping the first friend at the bus stop...
Scarlett, Aged 17 Halloween, 2016 I went to meet a friend that I went to school with at a party on Halloween night. I went to have a drink and I only had about three sips and started feeling really strange, blurred vision, couldn’t really understand what anyone was saying to me and then I...