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25. Blackpool 1978-79

The crowds turned out to see comic Ken Dodd tour Blackpool in an open-topped bus to draw fun-seekers to the resort's brand new £4.5m leisure complex - Coral Island, in the centre of the Golden Mile. Leading his way was a procession of horse-drawn landaus piled high with pretty girls, and a jazz band pounded a holiday beat | National World