They throwback to a very different era, 50 odd years ago. People, streets, places and buildings... they’re all there.
19. Blackpool 1970-1975
One of the RAF's aerobatic Red Arrows came down to earth in Blackpool - and nearly got a parking ticket. The men who sent the two-seater Gnat fighter from the Red Arrow base in Oxfordshire knew they faced a tricky problem getting the aircraft into the Winter Gardens, but the extra worry of double yellow lines never entered their heads. The Gnat forms part of Blackpool's outdoor leisure show | National World
21. Blackpool 1970-1975
A view of Blackpool North Station, Talbot Road, during a work to rule by railmen in 1972 | National World
22. Blackpool 1970-1975
Former Lancashire primary school headmaster Mr Harry Allison took over as presient of the National Union of Teahcers at the union's 100th annual conference at Blackpool | National World
23. Blackpool 1970-1975
A view of Excel Hotel ( XL Hotel ), Parkside Lane , Garstang, nearing completion in 1930. Originally owned by Catterall and Swarbrick Brewery (C&S Brewery of Blackpool) , it was renamed the Chequered Flag in 1970 and is now known as the Bellflower. It once had an entry in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the public houses in the UK with the shortest name | National World
24. Blackpool 1970-1975
Three-year-old Debbie Dugdale does her own thing with the Mona's Isle bell, watched by parents Frank and Marleine, from Blackpool | National World