Scouring through the archives, this resonates through the decades with photos aplenty of packed promenades, crowded seaside attractions and news pictures of people getting things ready for the influx of visitors.
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Motor cars and double decker buses dominate this Central Beach Easter holidays scene from the 1950's
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Work nears completion on the new look frontage of the Savoy Cafe complex in time for Easter 1938.
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A charming postcard, tinged with colou,r to bring extra life to the scene which shows The North Pier in 1920s. The Scottish sender of this postcard noted lots of Easter holidaymakers, weather bright - and everything perfect.
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Another picture taken on March 26 1934 shows men at work on the girders of a new switchback, probably at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in readiness for the Easter holiday crowds. Photo: Getty Images
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It was a good job they did because another photo taken just a few days later on Easter Monday 1934 shows a tide of people walking through the Pleasure Beach. You can hardly put a pin between them.
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Four bathers on a donkey ride on Blackpool beach at Easter, April 1938 Photo: Getty Images