Historical Images

A rare view from Victoria Street of Blackpool Tower under construction in 1893. The Tower was officially opened in May 1894, but by 1921 the whole of the steelwork had to be replaced because of corrosion. Blackpool HistoricalUpload Date: 03 Aug...

Church Street looking towards St John s Church in the 1950s when traffic still moved freely and parking was available outside the shops Blackpool HistoricalUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: Through the Years Town 7.JPGStore Filename: 21826725...

Topping Street, Blackpool, pictured from Church Street in 1934. The white-faced building on the right was then the premises of the electrical firm Hurst Ibbetson and Taylor HISTORICALUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: Through the Years Town 5...

When the ABC theatre , Church Street was opened on May 31, 1963, Cliff Richard and The Shadows arrived on the Wild West Train tram, It was the last time a tram ran in Church Street. Blackpool HistoricalUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: Through...

Cars and shoppers shared the space as they looked for bargains in the 1940s on the open air market that bordered Market Street, Church Street, Corporation Street and West Street, an area now given over to a multi storey car park and Bhs store. Looking...

Coronation Street, Blackpool seen from Church Street in the 1930s with the Winter Gardens on the left. Today, the building on the right still bears the commemorative stone engraved with Post Office Buildings to indicate where the old post office once...

The busy tram route from the Manchester Hotel , via Lytham Road, to Squires Gate opened in 1895. . Passengers had to negotiate a lane of traffic when getting on and off the trams, which ran along the centre of the road. Fortunately there were fewer cars...

An injured soldier and a nanny with a baby carriage are among those enjoying the Promenade close to it s junction with Station Road , South Shore in the 1880s. On the right is the Holy Trinity Vicarage where the first vicar was the Rev J F Green and...

On the right of this 1920s view of Waterloo Road from Lytham Road is the Dog and Partridge public house which remained open whilst it was being demolished in 1961. The new Dog and Partridge was built just around the corner on Lytham Road with not a...

South Shore Open Air Pool seen during it s heyday, with a backdrop of the South Shore area of Blackpool. The pool was opened in the summer of 1924 but was demolished in 1984 to make way for The Sancastle which when it opened in 1986 was the biggest...

The Saddle Inn, Whitegate Drive, Blackpool. Historical 14 11 1960Upload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: through the years SADDLE_IN.JPGStore Filename: 21826716.jpgByline: staffKeywords: through the years SADDLE IN.JPG ENGASH0004055181About our...

The Blackpool Lifeboat House under construction in 1937. The attractive art deco building was unceremoniously demolished in 2009 to make way for new sea defences. On the right is Louis Tussauds Waxworks, but the other buildings in the forground have all...