The Fylde Coast is ancient and is documented, as one picture caption suggests, back a thousand years.
These pictures piece together the landscape, towns, buildings and people of the Fylde from farming to the coast, from Fleetwood through to Blackpool, Lytham and everything in between.
Thousands of beach lovers take to their deck chairs below Central Pier in 1965, when the summer show headliners were Bob Monkhouse, Mike Yarwood and Neville King | National World
One of the oldest inns in the Fylde is the Eagle and Child at Weeton, built more than 420 years ago and originally thatched. The Danes first settled in Weeton and built a road through the district to Poulton, about 1040 | National World
In 1904 the view down Blackpool Old Road from its junction with Poulton Market Place was very different than today. The old mill building further along on the left and the houses and shops on the right have all given way to road improvement and modern development.
The Bull on the left and building on the right, which was then an ironmongers, advertising a brand of cigarettes which 'suits all classes' remain, along with the stocks and the market cross | library
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