![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)](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/15/11/47/GettyImages-1144558713.jpg.jpg?trim=77,0,77,0&crop=&width=640&quality=70&enable=upscale)
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.
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7. Blackpool 1920s and 1930s
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 | Getty Images
8. Blackpool 1920s and 1930s
9th May 1956: Donkey rides for holidaymakers at Blackpool seaside resort in Lancashire. Blackpool Tower is in the background. (Photo by Harry Kerr/BIPs/Getty Images) | Getty Images
9. Blackpool - 1920s and 1930s
A woman receives information leaflets about holidays from a publicity van belonging to the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, Blackpool | Getty Images
10. Blackpool 1920s and 1930s
A dramatic and quite shocking picture these days which show elephants from the Blackpool Whitsun circus being unloaded at Tilbury docks. 23rd May 1928 (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) | Getty Images
11. Blackpool 1920s and 1930s
Three women on Blackpool promenade during a heatwave. One wears a divided skirt and the other a straight skirt, both over swimwear. The middle one has a 'copy' of the Letty Lynton dress made popular by Joan Crawford in the film of that name. Adapted for the mass market the triple row of frills at the hem are matched by frills at the shoulder forming cap sleeves. (Photo by E Dean/Getty Images) | Getty Images
12. Blackpool 1920s and 1930s
17th August 1934: A cow is featured on this new set piece for the Blackpool illuminations. Men are transferring it from a workshop in Blackpool in preparation for the ?13,000 display which will contain 300,000 lights along a five mile stretch. (Photo by Martin/Fox Photos/Getty Images) | Getty Images