The year also saw raw emotion on the terraces, when tempers flared during Blackpool FC’s clash with Birmingham.
In quieter corners of the town though something more gentle began, the formation of a tortoise society.
These rarely seen photographs take you back to the much-loved a time we are not ready to let go.
26. Blackpool, 1989
The famous Coronation Street episode where Alan Bradley (Mark Eden) gets run over by a tram in Blackpool after chasing Rita Fairclough (Barbara Knox) | submit
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