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.
31st March 1936: Men painting the pleasure boats at Blackpool Boating Lake, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Lancashire, in preparation for the Easter holiday visitors. (Photo by Arthur Tanner/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
30th November 1939: The coxswain of the Blackpool lifeboat, W R Parr, looking out to sea while his dog watches him. (Photo by B. Marshall/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
A number of central-entrance twin staircase buses were put into service by the Blackpool Corporation. As well as saving time, the central entrance made for greater safety for passengers getting on and off the bus, Blackpool. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Edward C. Beck, a Cambridge undergraduate, was a member of the Magic Circle. In this picture from the 1920s shows the 23-year-old being fixed in his straight jacket ready for his act with a circus at Squire's Gate
Passengers' Luggage at Talbot Road Station, in the Holiday Season of 1930. From "The Wonder Book of Railways", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London and Melbourne, 1930]. Artist Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)
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