The fire started in the pier cinema – which had been added in 1942. Coins in the slot machines on the pier were heated to such an extent they welded into long strings of copper and fell to the sands belowThe fire started in the pier cinema – which had been added in 1942. Coins in the slot machines on the pier were heated to such an extent they welded into long strings of copper and fell to the sands below
The fire started in the pier cinema – which had been added in 1942. Coins in the slot machines on the pier were heated to such an extent they welded into long strings of copper and fell to the sands below

The fire which wrecked Fleetwood Pier - 11 dramatic images which capture the devastating inferno and its aftermath

The catastrophic fire which engulfed Fleetwood Pier in 1952 was so fierce it was reportedly seen up to 20 miles away, in Barrow, across Morecambe Bay.

These incredible archive pictures show various stages of the blaze. They show the blaze at its height, firemen tackling the flames and the aftermath – the destruction it left in its wake.

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