But thanks to photo apps and AI we can transform them into colour to show our town in a whole new light. The idea is to make them look a little more like the world people really saw at the time.
These are a selection of images dating back to the early 20th century and through to the 50s and even early 80s to show colourised versions of black and white images of our great town.
7. Old Blackpool in Colour
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
8. Old Blackpool in Colour
The former Raikes Smithy as a pet shop selling dog, bird and poultry food as well as being a gun shop on Church Street Blackpool. The building was situated opposite the end of Park Road and before it was burned down in 1988 it had been a the Continental Bedding shop | National World
9. Old Blackpool in Colour
Redman's Cafe and shop collapse in Bank Hey Street, 1956. H Samuel in the background | National World
11. Old Blackpool in Colour
Talbot Road, Blackpool - south side between Abingdon Street and Topping Street. J.H. Berry & Son pork butcher and pie shop. Marlow's outfitters, Norwich Building Society, Charles Clayton and Co solicitors | National World
12. Old Blackpool in Colour
Miss Hounds Hill Beverley Cowburn helps celebrate the opening of the Hounds Hill shopping centre. The centre was opened by the mayor of Bottrop, Oberburgermeister Ernst Wilczok, second from right and mayor of Blackpool Councillor Collin Hanson, far right | National World