These incredible pictures are mostly unseen and cast a fascinating insight into our two through two decades
They are from the 1920s and 1930s and show a changing Blackpool - from its circus animals to wrapping up the beaches for the summer season, the people, fashions and street scenes from the past - they are a brilliant clutch of nostalgia.
Slightly earlier than the 1920s but a great shot nontheless. A main street, with tramlines, in the seaside resort of Blackpool, Lancashire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
End of the season deck-chairs and ice-cream cabins were moved from the beach at Blackpool. A final sign which gave the end of the summer season was the removal of the fishing and pleasure boats from the beach. This work was done with the use of a tractor. This picture shows a tractor pulling in one of the motor boats, Blackpoo
17. circa 1900: A child with a pram on the streets of Blackpool with the Town Hall in the background. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
circa 1900: A child with a pram on the streets of Blackpool with the Town Hall in the background. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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