From Seaside Stars to the 1951 FA Cup, Pleasure Beach, the seafront and our streets they are a step back in time to a long age era. I often wonder what people thought of Blackpool back in those days, it was when it began to boom and placed itself firmly on the tourism map.
![Junior School relay race at Lytham, King Edward School, March 1951](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/12/11/10/king%20edward%20school%20.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
13. Blackpool 1950-1951
Junior School relay race at Lytham, King Edward School, March 1951 | National World
![Highfield Boys Secondary Modern School football team 1949-1950. Gerry North is first left middle row](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/12/11/08/Highfield%20boys.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
14. Blackpool 1950-1951
Highfield Boys Secondary Modern School football team 1949-1950. Gerry North is first left middle row | submit
![The band of Hawes Side Primary School, Blackpool in 1950](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/12/11/42/Hawes%20Side%20Primary.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
![Despite losing the final the team received a hero's welcome as they toured Blackpool and the Fylde in a Seagull coach.
The scene in Talbot Square when the Mayor (Ald Rhodes W Marshall JP) gave a civic welcome on the Town Hall steps to the Blackpool football team watched by thousands of supporters.
Team captain Harry Johnston is greeted by the Mayor.
Dated 01/05/1951
Blacpool Football Club](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/12/11/39/Seagull%20Coach.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=512)
16. Blackpool 1950-1951
Despite losing the final the team received a hero's welcome as they toured Blackpool and the Fylde in a Seagull coach. The scene in Talbot Square when the Mayor (Ald Rhodes W Marshall JP) gave a civic welcome on the Town Hall steps to the Blackpool football team watched by thousands of supporters. Team captain Harry Johnston is greeted by the Mayor. Dated 01/05/1951 Blacpool Football Club | National World
![Faces of young Blackpool children in 1950. Do you recognise any?](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/12/11/25/Children%201950s.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
17. Blackpool 1950-1951
Faces of young Blackpool children in 1950. Do you recognise any? | National World
![10th March 1951: Blackpool player Stan Mortensen is carried from the pitch after a collision with Birmingham City goalkeeper Gil Merrick in the FA Cup semi-final at the Maine Road ground, Manchester. The match was a goal-less draw](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/01/12/11/58/stan%20mortensen.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=800)
18. Blackpool 1950-1951
10th March 1951: Blackpool player Stan Mortensen is carried from the pitch after a collision with Birmingham City goalkeeper Gil Merrick in the FA Cup semi-final at the Maine Road ground, Manchester. The match was a goal-less draw | Getty Images