These are a fascinating trip down memory lane looking at Blackpool shops from yesteryear.
Most are long gone, except for a couple of high street names which have moved location. But these were the shops which knitted our wonderful town together and provided food, clothing and every day essentials. They are striking pictures which show how the shops and streets have changed.
Miss Hounds Hill Beverley Cowburn helps celebrate the opening of the Hounds Hill shopping centre.
The centre was opened by the mayor of Bottrop, Oberburgermeister Ernst Wilczok, second from right and mayor of Blackpool Councillor Collin Hanson, far right
An interesting picture dated November 1938. Bank Hey Street and Albert Street. The caption says: "One of the biggest land deals in Blackpool of recent years is that which has involved the clearance of property in the heart of the Central Station area. Before long, according to present plans, another big modern store will rise on the corner site shown in the above picture. Marks and Spencer and the executors of the late Ald RB Mather are the principle in the transaction
Talbot Road, Blackpool - south side between Abingdon Street and Topping Street. J.H. Berry & Son pork butcher and pie shop. Marlow's outfitters, Norwich Building Society, Charles Clayton and Co solicitors
View from the Grand Theatre Door in 1952 looking towards the jewellers shops on Market Street from Church Street. County Hotel in the distance on the left
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