These pictures revisit an array of thriving shops, offices, restaurants and pubs which you may remember in an area which is tucked away from the main shopping district. Deansgate is also included – remember Steals?

13. Topping Street and Deansgate
A little further back in this picture, 1970s perhaps? There is no date on the back of the photo but shows Naylors Fireplaces, Leftons and Carringtons | National World

14. Topping Street and Deansgate
April 1989 - Kingsgate Travel, The Lighting Shop and The Shakespeare | National World

15. Iceland, corner of Topping Street and Deansgate
Iceland, corner of Topping Street / Deansgate Blackpool. | National World

16. Topping Street and Deansgate
Topping Street, Blackpool, pictured from the Church Street end in 1934. The white-faced building on the right is the then premises of the electrical firm Hurst Ibbetson and Taylor | National World


18. Topping Street and Deansgate
Laffertys Bar, Topping Street, Blackpool. | National World