You can hardly put a pin between the deck chairs on the promenade as people soaked up the sun. Pictures of the fortune tellers, the people who famed in the 1980s, buildings, streets and schools wrap up a great decade.
ICYMI: 19 iconic photos transporting you back to 1990s Blackpool and a lost landmark you will remember
1. Blackpool, 1980s
A woman ponders the illuminated front of Gipsy Rosalee's fortune telling service i9n 1983. The sign says that Gipsy Rosalee was the queen of the Golden Mile and the photographs display famous customers including Jimmy Tarbuck and Eddie Large | National World
3. Blackpool, 1980s
Gary Wild 's later kiosk on the southern side of Victoria Street in 1980 before demolition of properties for the final part of the Houndshill Centre | library
4. Blackpool, 1980s
Trams and holidaymakers on the seafront of the seaside resort of Blackpool, Lancashire, August 1983 | Getty Images
5. Blackpool, 1980s
Crowds of holidaymakers and kiosks offering tea, coffee, ices, whelks and cockles and shrimps as snacks on the beach in 1983 | National World
