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?

19. Topping Street and Deansgate
The entrance to the alleyway off Deansgate, Blackpool | National World

20. Topping Street and Deansgate
One of Blackpool's most famous pubs, The Talbot was built in 1845 at the corner of Talbot Road and Topping Street. Home of a famous bowling competition it was demolished in 1968. | National World


22. Topping Street and Deansgate
One of the new meters suffering from a paucity of parkers on Topping Street | National World

23. Topping Street and Deansgate
Sharon Astin at Autumn Leaves, Topping Street | National World

24. Topping Street and Deansgate
The Talbot Hotel's bowling grreen which was on the corner of Topping Street and the eastern end of Deansgate | National World