From school memories and the town’s workers to sporting events and lights switch ons, this is how our town shaped up through a year. Are you pictured?
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1. Blackpool - 2001
Fire crews drafted in The Gazette's Face of 2001 Heidi van Cliff to give them extra pulling power. And it was family affair as Heidi led the team away with her dad Lee van Cliff, who was station officer at Blackpool fire station, at her side Photo: Rob Lock
2. Blackpool - 2001
Jim Bowen is overwhelmed by the 'voices' competing for the celebrity sound-a-like disabled parking space machines at the Asda store in Blackpool in 2001. Left to right: Stuart Smith, Chris Rhodes, Bradley King, Lisa Cailes, Iain Riches, Kerry Wilson, Leslie Gibson (winner), Simon Whitehouse Photo: National World
3. Blackpool - 2001
Pop group Steps turn on the 2001 Blackpool Illuminations in Talbot Square Photo: Phil Noble
4. Blackpool - 2001
The Winter Gardens in Blackpool hosted the 2001 Employment Service Jobfair. Shelley Snowden from B&Q Warehouse on their recruitment stand. Photo: Robert Charles Norton Lock
5. Blackpool - 2001
16 year-olds had a chance to learn more about driving, including some hands-on experience, during Test Drive 2001 organised by the BSM at Blackpool and Fylde College. James Mathews tries out the driving simulator. Photo: Rob Lock
6. Blackpool - 2001
Stage Summer Party, Blackpool 2001. Richard DeVere, Tom Bright and the cast of Mystique Photo: Martin Bostock