From the Miss World final and the Winter of Discontent to school dinners, snowfall, streets and shops, this was the era of 1978-79 in Blackpool
![Still as recognisable today - Singleton post office, September 1978](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/26/12/21/Blackpool%201978-79.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
19. Blackpool 1978-79
Still as recognisable today - Singleton post office, September 1978 | National World
![Top Russian surgeons worked with a skilled Lancashire health team on two major operations at a Blackpool hospital. The three Soviet doctors spent several days in the Blackpool district during a fortnight-long visit as part of an Anglo-Soviet exchange agreement](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/26/12/28/Blackpool%201978-79.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
20. Blackpool 1978-79
Top Russian surgeons worked with a skilled Lancashire health team on two major operations at a Blackpool hospital. The three Soviet doctors spent several days in the Blackpool district during a fortnight-long visit as part of an Anglo-Soviet exchange agreement | National World
![This was in 1978 and the photo was taken during the investigation of the murder of Kitty Weaver who was viciously stabbed to death with a four-inch blade at a South Shore rest home in Seventh Avenue](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/26/12/51/Blackpool%201978-79.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
21. Blackpool 1978-79
This was in 1978 and the photo was taken during the investigation of the murder of Kitty Weaver who was viciously stabbed to death with a four-inch blade at a South Shore rest home in Seventh Avenue | National World
![This was a reader's photo and is a scene from the Revoe area of Blackpool](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/26/12/25/Blackpool%201978-79.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
22. Blackpool 1978-79
This was a reader's photo and is a scene from the Revoe area of Blackpool | National World
![A derelict house at the rear of Bonny Street in 1978 - courtesy of the Herbert Ball Collection](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/26/12/19/Blackpool%201978.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
23. Blackpool 1978-79
A derelict house at the rear of Bonny Street in 1978 - courtesy of the Herbert Ball Collection | National World
![The crowds turned out to see comic Ken Dodd tour Blackpool in an open-topped bus to draw fun-seekers to the resort's brand new £4.5m leisure complex - Coral Island, in the centre of the Golden Mile. Leading his way was a procession of horse-drawn landaus piled high with pretty girls, and a jazz band pounded a holiday beat](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/26/12/18/Blackpool%201978-79.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
24. Blackpool 1978-79
The crowds turned out to see comic Ken Dodd tour Blackpool in an open-topped bus to draw fun-seekers to the resort's brand new £4.5m leisure complex - Coral Island, in the centre of the Golden Mile. Leading his way was a procession of horse-drawn landaus piled high with pretty girls, and a jazz band pounded a holiday beat | National World