Most are long gone, except for a couple of high street names which have moved location.
But these were the shops which knitted our wonderful town together and provided food, clothing and every day essentials. They are striking pictures which show how the shops and streets have changed.
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19. Vintage Shops
The 1953 opening of Maurice Green 's shop in Ansdell Road Blackpool - the Beverley Sisters pose with bicycles from the shop which also sold radios and televisions | National World
21. Vintage Shops
The Promenade and Talbot Square in the mid 1950s. From the left, businesses include the EH Booth store and cafe above, Williams and Son Chemist, the Nutbrown Arcade selling Nutbrown Kitchen Equipment and a small shop advertising Blackpool rock. On the corner is an empty shop with the Royal Liver Assurance office and the Entertainments and Accommodation Ltd above. Round the corner into Talbot Square is the Midland Bank and the corner of the white facade of the Williams Deacon's Bank . Across the Square there is a gimpse of Yates's Wine Lodge. The white van has advertisements for comedian Albert Modley and his " all star cast". | National World