These brilliant retro photos take us back to 1988.
I remember the 80s like it was yesterday and 1988 was one of them, 4th year at high school (Year 10 if you are younger). Yazz topped the charts, Erasure were at their peak, it was the year of the Lockerbie disaster and bread was about 59p. These photos reflect our town through one year...
Inkeeper of the year Albert Caffery, licensee of the Ramsden Arms Hotel, Talbot Road, was presented with a silver plated commemorative plaque, a cheque for £150 and a complementary keg of Guinness. Albert is pictured above with his wife Christine
Queen of the Lights Eileen Durr in 1988 with the world's first Glimobile, a Citroen 2CV converted into a unique moving fibre optic light show, changing through the colours of the rainbow as it travels along the Promenade nightly through Blackpool Illuminations
The North Fylde Inner Wheel first charter dinner, held in 1988 at The Claremont Hotel, Blackpool.
Left to right: Barbara Lester, Sheila Pindred (now deceased), Gwen Exley (district chairman) Maureen Romer (president) Anne Taylor (vice chairman) and Jacqui Hulme (founder member)
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