We look back this week at photos from Getty Images archives which show Blackpool through the decades.
Right back to the 1800's people would venture to the coast for some sunshine and a well earned day out.
There’s even one picture which shows the beach with its promenade backdrop in the days before Blackpool Tower was even built! There aren’t many photos like that...
More Fylde Coast photos can be found here: Snow pictures: How the bitter winter of 1981/82 gripped the Fylde Coast
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Crowds of holiday-makers on the beach at Blackpool, Lancashire, dominated by the Blackpool Tower on July 18, 1951 | Getty
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Ladies sport a selection of swimming costumesat the open air pool in Blackpool, August 22 1936 | Getty
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Holidaymakers at Blackpool buying ice-cream from a mobile ice-cream stall, May 1936 | Getty
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Men painting the pleasure boats at Blackpool Boating Lake in preparation for the Easter holiday visitors, March 31 1936 | other