Historical Images

memory lane january 29 Passengers at Central Station in Blackpool in May 1955. historicalUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: img693.JPGStore Filename: 21828192.jpgByline: submitKeywords: img 693.JPG PUBDATE_2008_01_26_BEG002_001_28-01-08__??_??...

Memory lane supplement Two features you would not see today are the spire on the Town Hall building and the Giant Wheel. A good number of these properties have since been demolished and redeveloped in the name of progress, but others remain, such as...

Memory lane supplement Cars and shoppers shared the space as they looked for bargains in the 1940s on the open air market that bordered - not surprisingly - Market Street, Church Street, Corporation Street and West Street, an area now given over to a...

Memory lane supplement All aboard for a tour of the Promenade by toastrack tram. Passengers, in best coats and hats, clamber to take their seats as the tram waits in Talbot Square with Sacred Heart Church seen top right. Blackpool historicalUpload Date:...

Memory lane supplement THE Winter Gardens had already been a star attraction for half a century when this 25-year-old car drew the crowds in Church Street in 1928. The picture was taken in front of the entrance of a previous Opera House to the one that...

When the Blackpool BIG Wheel was demolished in 1928 - 1929 the carriages were sold off for all sorts of uses including garden sheds: this picture shows the site in Coronation Street as the carriages were removed. blackpool HISTORICAL giant wheelUpload...

Original caption The children of Layton junior mixed school collected a pile of junk . It includes an irongate, lawn mower, bicycle. tricycle,waste and silver paper, aluminium pans and kettles and hundreds of glass jars. During World War Two the people...

THEN AND NOW - THEN 1930s Blackpool, crowds flock to see the defrocked Rector of Stiffkey on the Golden Mile Blackpool historicalUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: Gazette Years Stiffkey1.JPGStore Filename: 21828185.jpgByline: submitKeywords:...

Squatters move into wooden huts off St Annes Road, Blackpool which were built for the army during World War Two . They had previously been living in overcrowded conditions with relatives or in rented accommodation. Here the families are seen with their...

Original caption Blackpool s Overlanders receive a civic send-off at the Town Hall before setting out in today s snowstorm on their 9,000 mile trek to Durban, South Africa. After the second world war, families from Blackpool made the trek to Durban to...

Heavy snow in January 1940. Drifts on Poulton Road Blackpool Historical Dated 30 01 1940Upload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: GAZETTE YEARS SNOW 4.JPGStore Filename: 21828182.jpgByline: Beg Specials staffKeywords: GAZETTE YEARS SNOW 4.JPG...

Heavy snowfall in January 1940. Workmen clearing the snow drifts near the Miners Home at Bispham. Blackpool Historical Published EG 31 01 1940Upload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: GAZETTE YEARS SNOW 3.JPGStore Filename: 21828181.jpgByline: Beg...