These pictures are flickers from the past and rewind to the long ago year of 1953. They focus on Market Street and, of course, Blackpool’s own Coronation Street. There’s even a superb aerial shot of our town, taken across the wings of an aircraft.
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1. Blackpool in 1953
Market Street. Hymans and Leonard Dews jewellers on the left and the site of the old St John's Market is just visible on the right where BHS would be built 1953 Photo: Submit
2. Blackpool in 1953
This was Coronation Street in Blackpool as it was in 1953. The electric light suspended across the road was though by one reader to be a cable car! With that in mind the Gazette once used the pictures as an April Fool joke Photo: Submit
3. Blackpool in 1953
Not a hard hat in sight for this brave chap painting away almost at the very top of Blackpool Tower in 1953. Wonder if they were sprucing it up for the Coronation? Photo: Historical
5. Blackpool in 1953
The 1953 opening of Maurice Green's shop in Ansdell Road Blackpool - the Beverley Sisters pose with bicycles from the shop which also sold radios and televisions Photo: Submit
6. Blackpool in 1953
Workmen taking the new runway at Blackpool Airport across Leach Lane in August. It meant new road links between St Annes and Marton Photo: submit