The factories you might remember are featured as well as colleagues and bosses who kept the wheels turning. Different trades and businesses are included – you might recognise some faces.
7. The Factories
Packing assorted biscuits by hand at Fox's Biscuits, Kirkham Photo: National World
9. Blackpool's factories
Craig Holland, quality assurance manager at Glasdons, tests the stretch in plastics, 1990 Photo: National World
10. Blackpool factories
Glasdon's design team David Bray, Carl Scratcher, Robert Dixon and John Holgate, 1990 Photo: National World
11. The Factories
Direct Window Factory, Blackpool. Owner Dave Stevely and his staff Photo: Mike Foster
12. The Factories
Hawker-Sidley aircraft factory which during world war two was owned by Vickers who made bomber aircraft there. There were plans in the late 1950s to turn the hangars into a conference and exhibition centre. This picture from 1948 show the main shop floor - at the time it was one of europe's largest single span buildings Photo: Submit