33 historical pictures down the decades depicting Blackpool, Fleetwood, Poulton and St Annes

By Claire Lark

Digital Journalist

Published 16th Sep 2026, 16:00 GMT

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.

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13. Fylde Nostalgia

Thousands of women helped to build planes at locations all over Blackpool and Fylde. These are turret lathe operators | National World

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14. Fylde Nostalgia

Fylde Rugby Club in 1947 | National World

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15. Fylde Nostalgia

A dredger at work in the River Wyre, long ago... | National World

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16. Fylde Nostalgia

A steam train runs through Kirkham from a book by Barry McLoughlin 'the Railways of Blackpool and the Fylde' | National World

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17. Fylde Nostalgia

In the 19th century Fylde women like these pictured were transported by horse-drawn carriage | National World

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18. Fylde Nostalgia

Victoria Road in Poulton looking towards Station Road | National World

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