Historical Images

BLACKPOOL HISTORICAL It s 1959 and Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield brought more than a touch of glamour to the resort when she switched on Blackpool Illuminations . SWITCH-ON HISTORICALUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: Jayne Mansfield(2)...

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:...

sat gazette feature: First Blackpool Labour Party Conference, blackpool winter gardens 04 10 1927 historical Mr J Harrabin, Miss Ellen Wilkinson MP for Middlesborough East and Mr R WilliamsUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename:...

Big Wheel Blackpool historical giant wheel 1896Upload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: Gazette Years Wheel.JPGStore Filename: 21826662.jpgByline: BEG NEWS staffKeywords: Gazette Years Wheel.JPG ENGBGH02420110420102054About our products Our box...

Gazette Years Miners Blackpool Historical Edward Prince of Wales, poses for photographs before unlocking the door of the Miners Home Bispham 28th June 1927 L-R Mr A J Hope architect . Lieut-Col L E Pilkington Chairman of the Board of management of the...

Gazette Years Miners Blackpool historical Chioldren from Wood Street Mission welcome Edward Prince of Wales at Squires gate on his way to open the Miners Convelescent Home at Bispham 28th June 1927Upload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: Gazette Years...

At the beginning of World War Two, hundreds of children were evacuated from their home towns to the relative safety of Blackpool. They were taken into the homes of Blackpool residents despite obvious overcrowding. Three young evacuees sleep soundly in...

The Evening Gazette building, Victoria Street, Blackpool in 1972 historicalUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: EVENING GAZETTE 1.JPGStore Filename: 21826658.jpgByline: beg specials staffKeywords: EVENING GAZETTE 1.JPG ENGASH0004170483About our...

Aerial of the railway sidings attached to Blackpool Central Station. Coop Street on the right runs almost parallel with the railway lines. The Majestic Ballroom with three distinctive gable ends and light coloured roof is in Bathesda Road. Kent Road...

BLACKPOOL HISTORICAL To you, to me, hold your end up there. Workmen manhandle the famous Wurlitzer on its way back to the Tower Ballroom stage in 1958 following its reopening after the fire of December 1955.Upload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename:...

BLACKPOOL HISTORICAL Read all about it! Newsboys in Blackpool announce the end of the Boer War from outside the main Promenade entrance to the Tower in 1902.Upload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: ed2p16p17boerwarends.JPGStore Filename: 21826655...

memory lane april 8 Collective Effervescence display at Blott Artist Studios Blackpool Carnival 1923 24 historical man on a decorated motorised trikeUpload Date: 03 Aug 2012Original Filename: Carnival_Tricycle_1923_300d.JPGStore Filename: 21826654...