And it was the year when crowd trouble spilled on the terraces in a Blackpool FC match against Birmingham. A tortoise society was formed too. These rarely seen photos rewind to life in the last year of the 1980s, capturing moments during pivotal change in Blackpool, knocking on the door of a brand new decade.
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1. Blackpool 1989
A rare photos of The Stone Roses at Blackpool's Empress Ballroom in August 1989. They had finished a UK wide summer tour in Blackpool selling a 4,000 capacity show. It has since been described as the ultimate Stone Roses performance, marking the moment where both they and the Madchester scene had truly arrived Photo: National World
2. Blackpool 1989
Crowd trouble spilled on the terraces at Bloomfield Road when Blackpool played Birmingham Photo: Submit
3. Blackpool 1989
This superb picture, in all its 1980s colour glory, captures a true moment in time at Blackpool North Pier. It belongs to Andrew Bartholomew and was on show at the Grundy Art Gallery as part of the Mass Photography Exhibition Photo: Submit
4. Blackpool 1989
1989 was the year when a huge blaze broke our at Funland Amusements. Firefighters had extinguished the flames in this scene and the devastating damage was clear Photo: Submit
5. Blackpool 1989
That famous 1989 scene... Corrie's Alan Bradley is killed by a tram Photo: Submit
6. Blackpool 1989
Actor Tom Lack recreated the part of Harry Howell in an episode of Crimewatch UK which reconstructed Harry's unsolved murder Photo: submit