Blackpool area code. UK area code 01253 is for Blackpool in Lancashire, and the surrounding area. Locations using 01253 numbers include: 1  Blackpool.
Somers lies on an area of land on the south-eastern point of the Mornington Peninsula, where to the south, it borders Western Port. The town of Cowes on Phillip Island can be seen from any beach in Somers in most weather conditions.
Somers had a naturally husky voice that might have caused the misperception that she suffered from a throat ailment. However, she eventually was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, and, following a period of remission, she died on September 15, 2007, at her home in Westport, Connecticut at age 83.