This week we are looking at 1984. Do you recognise yourself or anyone else in these pictures? Let us know. READ MORE: Pictures of Blackpool folk in 1983. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: More pictures from the 80s
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A grateful ice skater accepted his certificate for a gruelling 24-hour marathon - lying on a Red Cross stretcher. The young trouper collapsed from exhaustion just as the sponsored skate slid to a halt at Blackpool's Ice Drome. The marathon is thought to have raised almost £1,000 to help send the British Olympic team to the Games in Los Angeles this summer. More than 50 youngsters took part and social skaters also joined the fundraisers on the ice throughout the day
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A mayor's tribute to a heroic band of rescuers was tinged with sadness. Blackpool's Coun Mrs Marjorie Hoggard praised night shift worker Robert Sime for saving a baby from a burning house - a blaze which sadly claimed the life of the child's four-year-old brother. Pictured: The Mayor of Blackpool, Coun Mrs Marjorie Hoggard and Supt Roy Howarth, with Patrick Heaney, Andrew McConnell and Christopher Johnstone, who all staged a sea rescue, along with Robert Sime
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Golden couple Fred and Julie Hudson got the Lord and Lady treatment as family and friends arranged a surprising outing in a gleaming Rolls Royce to celebrate 50 years of marriage. Some of Julie and Fred's seven children, 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren gathered outside the couple's home in Ribby Road, Kirkham, to wave them off in the yellow chauffeur-driven Rolls before they were whisked away for a slap-up meal at the Clifton Arms Hotel in Lytham
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Reg Brittain spends between £5m and £6m a year and doesn't tell his wife where a penny of it goes. His lifestyle doesn't reflect his spending habits. He lives in a modest semi-detached bungalow down Manor Road, Garstang. But his spending days are numbered. Soon he retires after nearly half a century in Lancashire's paper trade at the United Paper Mills
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The Mayor and Mayoress of Preston Coun Mrs Dorothy Chaloner and Penny Chaloner at the controls of HMS Inskip, watched by (left to right) Chief of Watch Peter Edmondson, Mrs Irene Bamber (Mayoress of Fylde), Coun Eric Bamber (Fylde Mayor), Coun Mrs Marjorie Hoggard (Blackpool Mayor), Mrs Kathleen Abbot (Blackpool Mayoress), Mrs Emma Formstone (Mayoress of Wyre) and Coun Harold Formstone (Mayor of Wyre) and Lt Commander David Hutchings