These vintage pictures reflect Blackpool back to the last century and beyond.
They are mainly street scenes and buildings, some still standing whilst others are long gone. But they give us an idea of how Blackpool looked in past times through the streets which are still so familiar.
When these houses, on Caunce Street near the junction with Collingwood Avenue, were demolished Lowes/Forbes expanded their builders merchants yard onto the site.
The Blackpool Lifeboat House under construction in 1937. The attractive art deco building was unceremoniously demolished in 2009 to make way for new sea defences
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