They focus on the years through the First World War to when peace time returned and the first annual celebration of the war's end in 1919.
They remember the people, the women and children who came to Blackpool without their men for Wakes Week, soldiers training and the final days of peace before war broke out.
They also focus on shops, streets and everyday life as the country fell under the grip of war.

19. Blackpool 1914-1919
The founder of Box Bros Ltd. Thomas Edwin Box, Stephen outside the main library, 1917. It shows him with a new taxi which he was assessing for the company. Notice the uniform taxi drivers used to wear. Thomas Edwin Box was the instigator of moving Box Bros. Ltd from Yorkshire to Blackpool in 1915. | National World

20. Blackpool 1914-1919
A scene outside Blackpool Town Hall on Peace day 1919. The mayor Albert Lindsay Parkinson is pictured on the right | National World

21. Princess Parade, Blackpool, circa 1915. (G. A. Hall, Blackpool, circa 1915)
Princess Parade, Blackpool, circa 1915. (G. A. Hall, Blackpool) Note the absence of the war memorial which was yet to become a focal point for the fallen | Getty Images


23. Blackpool 1914-1919
Westcliffe Drive Layton, 1914. The proprietor of this shop on the corner of Onslow Road was J Ingram, advertisements proclaim "hairdresser, stationer, tabacconist, newsagents and shaving all under one roof. The house further along the road with the 'half-timbered look' stands on the corner of Norwood Avenue. The first Layton Institute would soon be built on the corner Lynwood Avenue between these buildings | National World



