It was the first year of Blackpool Illuminations since the beginning of the Second World War and it was also a time of school success, stars in the resort and the days when the trams still rattled down Dickson Road. They're a trip back in time...

25. Blackpool, 1949
Can't put a pin between them. Blackpool Beach and pier in 1949 | Getty Images

26. Blackpool, 1949
This poster was produced for British Railways in 1949 by Sunderland-born artist, Septimus Edwin Scott and was sold at auction | National World

27. Blackpool, 1949
Ald J R Quayle JP, Chairman of Messrs. Singleton and Crystal bottlers (Right) starts the new bottling plant which cleaned, filled, sealed and labelled at Singleton and Crystal, Bickerstaffe Street. Behind him is Mr Peto Bennet, chairman and MD of Liquid Carbonic Co who made the plant | National World

28. Blackpool, 1949
Pete Elgee (left) and his friend Dave Heslop, in 1949 taken on their way to watch Blackpool FC at Bloomfield Road | submit

29. Blackpool, 1949
Tiller Girls from North Pier aboard HMS Tremadoc Bay before the ship left Blackpool in August 1949 | National World
