It’s outside living memory for many of us and so bring a glimpse of our town in the late 1950s.
19. Blackpool, 1958
The car, in which gangster Al Capone died, stored at West Coast Motor Auction garage in Buchanan Street, Blackpool in 1958. The 1928, 30hp, Cadillac was armour plated, weighed 3 or 4 tons (depending on source of information) and had inch thick windows ( with bullet marks visible). It was sold to businessman Mr Neilson of Toronto, Canada. Whilst in Blackpool the car was filmed by TV cameras as it free-wheeled down The Knowle hill, Devonshire Road, North Shore Photo: staff
20. Blackpool, 1958
A section of the new Mereside branch library which opened in the old Little Marton School in 1958, the library contained 3,500 books Photo: staff
21. Blackpool, 1958
South Pier and its Grand Pavilion before the devastating blaze of 1958 Photo: National World
23. Blackpool, 1958
Lady Mountbatten with some of the nurses of Blackpool Victoria Hospital. With her is Mr R Everett (consultant obstetrician and gynocologist), Miss A Sim (Matron) and Mr Walter R Smith (group secretary) Photo: staff
24. Blackpool, 1958
M & A Wood opened a new shop in Highfield Road, South Shore, Blackpool in 1958, specialising in wools, hosiery, knitwear and underwear Photo: staff