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Blackpool Pleasure Beach

A morning cuppa in the sun room, 1988

21 fascinating retro scenes inside Blackpool Miners' Convalescent Home

Progress on Xmas By The Sea as the new snow slide and candy cane trampoline goes up on Blackpool Tower Headlands.

A look at the festive rides ahead Friday's grand opening

Beauty and The Beast pantomime at The Globe  includes TV personality Charlotte Dawson and Blackpool icon Betty Legs Diamond

Charlotte Dawson to star in Beauty and The Beast panto

The Gold Mine at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, modelled on the Califorian gold rush mines of Sierra Nevada. Pictured just before it was due to open in October 1971

27 nostalgic photos of Blackpool in the 1960s and 1970s

The skull at the top of the Ghost Train ride is lit up  but on one occasion staff couldn't turn the lights off, despite disconnecting the power supply. Was it the work of Cloggy? Photo courtesy of Phill Anderson

The spooky tale of Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s famous ghost

February 1969. This photo shows Blackpool Central Beach new development - the Golden Mile Arcade

16 scenes which capture lost moments in time along the Golden Mile

White Tower, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, restaurant review

Seed Street, near North Station, bore the brunt of local air attacks in 1940

25 emotive images of our town during World War II

First look of 26 pictures from Blackpool Pleasure Beach Journey To Hell

It would be grim after an apocalypse...

13 thought-provoking images of Blackpool in the future according to AI

Journey to Hell at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

I visited Blackpool Pleasure Beach for an unforgettable night of chills

The subway on the promenade was eventually filled in

13 lost pictures of Blackpool Central Promenade subway

A different angle across the waterslides opening up to show what the Sandcastle was like in 1989

A trip down memory lane for the Sandcastle as it wins Visit England Gold Award

Jellies Nightclub, Bar and Promotion Staff, Get ready for the Big Bank Holiday Weekend

25 fabulous pub and nightclub photos from nights out in 2000

Special early bird tickets available if you book this week – click for full details. Submitted picture

Ad Feature Special offers on Circus of Horrors Halloween specials in Blackpool

Cricketland Pre-School Nursery in West Park Drive, offered their three gnomes to the highest bidder, to raise money for Derian House. Pictured are Edward Lyttle and Tania Alvarez-Yates

Nursery school memories from the 90s and 00s captured through 31 photos
These will have you reminiscing!

The Dive Bomber was wartime thrills for workers. Servicemen and women in the crowds on Whit Sunday

25 evocative pictures take us back to the early days of the Pleasure Beach

Noah's Ark in the background - one of the theme park's oldest rides coloured in

19 old pictures colourised to Blackpool in a whole new light

Alice in Wonderland director Tim Burton took a journey on the ride of the same name during a visit to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Thursday (October 5). (Picture by Blackpool Pleasure Beach)

Hollywood filmmaker Tim Burton visits Pleasure Beach

The notorious Journey to Hell returns to Blackpool Pleasure Beach this Halloween, with brand new scare zones and newly added, never-before-seen scare experiences throughout October.

Journey to Hell returns to Blackpool Pleasure Beach this Halloween

Landaus parked in Ibbison Street

25 nostalgic pictures to take you back to our resort in 1972

The Big One

Pleasure Beach wins eight awards at the UK Theme Park Awards 2023

Charlotte Dawson will be playing Fortulicious in this year's Blackpool Pleasure Beach Christmas panto - Beauty and the Beast. Credit: Charlotte Dawson on Instagram

Charlotte Dawson returns to the Blackpool stage for Christmas panto

Children’s novel inspired by 50-year-old smell company founded in Blackpool

Coronation Street stars Kevin and Sally with local photographer Robert McDougall during filming on North Pier Blackpool in 1994

25 nostalgic pictures to take you back to Blackpool in 1994

100ft-long snow slide comes to Christmas by the sea 2023

It must have been a miserable summer because the caption on the back of this photo reads:  'Shock appearance of the sun sent youngsters of all ages on to the beach at Blackpool, scratching their heads and trying to remember how to tackle a real summer. Swim suits came out, buckets and spades were dusted down and, for the first time this year, sandcastles proliferated along the shore, with the occasional father buried beneath them'

19 retro scenes to take you back to Blackpool in 1979
A throwback to 1979 with these great pictures which defined the year in Blackpool.

A strange sight for Blackpool as a bulldozer clears a path for cars in the town centre during heavy snowfall

25 nostalgic pictures to take you back to Blackpool in 1981

The Big One

Blackpool Pleasure Beach teases over 'extension' to the Big One height

Blackpool Pleasure Beach is lending costumes for the parade

Paw Patrol and Spongebob characters to join Illumination switch on Grand Parade

Waddington Road Play area in January 1987. The caption on the back of the photo says 'swings, slides and see-saws have been condemned as dangerous and should be removed immediately to prevent accidents'

Retro pictures of Blackpool parks and playgrounds back in the day

Central beach, July 1967

21 pictures to take you back to Blackpool in 1967

The Big Dipper in all her wooden glory in 1959. (Picture by Blackpool Pleasure Beach)

Big Dipper turns 100

Two young girls stroll across a swathe of undeveloped land at the Pleasure Beach against the backdrop of the Big Dipper. The roller coaster was built by William Strickler at a cost of just £25,000

Big Dipper at 100: Rare photos capture a century of the much-loved rollercoaster

Blackpool Pleasure Beach has announced this year’s Late Night Riding event

Late Night Riding returns to Blackpool Pleasure Beach - what you need to know

The Fury family at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in August 2023.

Fury family visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Book signing at Fleetwood Market

Kindness Counts: A Children’s adventure story from a Blackpool based author

Peter Kay at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 2005

15 celebrities spotted at Blackpool Pleasure Beach - including Peter Kay

The Ed Sheeran look-alike, who was accompanied by a number of security officers, was mobbed by excited fans requesting selfies and taking videos during a day at Blackpool Pleasure Beach at the weekend. (Picture by Dan Oxtoby Photography)

Was Ed Sheeran at Blackpool Pleasure Beach this weekend?

A small fire broke out underneath the Derby Racer ride at araround 6.10pm on Tuesday (August 8). The fire was extinguished shortly after the alarm was raised

Pleasure Beach ride catches fire

Blackpool Pleasure Beach has slashed ticket prices for every Saturday of August

How to get cheap tickets for Blackpool Pleasure Beach during the school holidays

Blackpool Pleasure Beach has been nominated for 13 awards in the UK Theme Park Awards 2023 - here are 10 of the park's best rides

12 of the best rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

Public gets to vote as Blackpool Pleasure Beach is up for 13 awards

A woman says she was refused entry to Blackpool Pleasure Beach despite her daughter's friend having a medical emergency (Credit: Google)

Mum ‘refused entry to Pleasure Beach’ despite daughter's emergency

Noah's Ark in the background - one of the theme park's oldest rides. This was 1981

Blackpool Pleasure Beach - 25 pictures of the resort's amazing theme park

Flashback to 1981 and the arrival of a new computer at Highfield High School

25 pictures of pupils at Blackpool schools in the decade of the 1980s

Lucy Fallon, who grew up in Cleveleys, is pictured here with Joe Watson in 2007 when she performed with Barbara Jackson Theatre School in Fleetwood. The school had won through to the final 50 for The Sound of Music in the West End. Lucy is most famous for her role as Bethany Platt in Coronation Street for which she has won a string of awards

15 photos of Blackpool celebrities before they were famous

A familiar sight - the outside view of the complex in 1984

29 photo memories of the old Lido Pool

South Shore Promenade

24 pictures which jump back to what Blackpool was like when the sun came out

IRA Bombing in Blackpool, 1991

25 pictures to take you back to Blackpool in 1991

A scene of a packed pier in 1990

Photos of Central Pier rewind the years

Elizabeth Best appeared on Britains Got Talen in 2019.

Evoloution of Magic Show comes to Blackpool Pleasure Beach

A view from 2001

17 retro pictures of Children's Corner - its rides, the children and sad closure

Michael O’Reilly and Kira Malou  practiced the iconic lift from Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing stars recreate famous lift during trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach

The Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Picture by David P Howard

Pleasure Beach blames minimum wage breach on 'payroll oversight'

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