They cover the decade from 1980-1989 and remember news events, beach, people and buildings which shaped Blackpool during that time. Can you remember the 1980s?


8. Blackpool 1980-1989
Blackpool coach builders Duple won a race against time to unveil two new designs for Birmingham Motor Show. Staff at the Vicarage Road plant had been working round the clock to prepare the futuristic coach bodies for the show - and completed them just in time. The bodies are the first completely new designs from the Lancashire firm for several years | National World

9. Blackpool 1980-1989
Photo call at Blackpool Grand Theatre for the production of Master Class | National World

10. Blackpool 1980-1989
Marton Windmill, October 1988 The sail is fitted to complete Marton Mill | National World


12. Blackpool 1980-1989
A head-on crash between two trams at the turning loop opposite Blackpool Pleasure Beach injured 6 people on 22 July 1980. | library


