This is what Bloomfield Road looked like back then – we are talking 70s but mainly 80s and 90s – and a generation of Blackpool fans will reminisce over the home games at the ground in stands which are a world away from the superb facilities they are used to today. The stands, tunnels, new floodlights, the exterior of the crumbling ground in the 80s – they will certainly bring back memories.
25. Bloomfield Road Stadium
Behind the scenes in the earliest photo of this collection -1961. Preparations were being made with the ploughing of the pitch ready for levelling and reseeding. Photo: National World
26. Bloomfield Road Stadium
The caption on the back of this photo from December 1973 reads 'Like a scene from Aladdin, it was a case of new lamps for old at Blackpool FC. The old floodlights were being replaced by three and a half kilowatt mercury, halogen band floodlighting, which will only need 10 lamps per tower for improved lighting' Photo: National World
27. Bloomfield Road Stadium
This was 1987 and the uprights were in place for Blackpool Boro's rugby debut at Bloomfield Road. they were entertaining Wakefield Trinity in the RL Challenge Cup Photo: National World
28. Bloomfield Road Stadium
The East Paddock as it was in February 1987 Photo: National World