Families sheltering from the heat in the summer, how Blackpool Airport looked and a peek at giant rock rolling rounds up moments within a year. I can remember 1987, can you? See if these jog your memory.

7. Blackpool - 1987
Blackpool Gazette's final edition from the Victoria Street building in 1987 Photo: Submit

8. Blackpool - 1987
This giant stick of candy was a rock solid record. The 500lb monster entered the Guiness Book of Records as the largest rock around. Nine feet, two inches long and 14 1/2 inches thick, the rock rolled off the production line at Blackpool's Fylde Confectionery Company after a marathon cooling session Photo: National World

9. Blackpool - 1987
Waterloo Primary School's Operation Green Lung - patch of waste land next to the school was transformed into a new nature study and play area Photo: Submit

