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Daily Herald Photograph: Painter at work on Blackpool Tower

1936-03-10

Photograph showing Blackpool FC trainer Alex Wilson with a 'football robot'.

1964-07-06

Easter Sunday at Blackpool

1961

Tower Ballroom

1943

Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

21 October 1943

Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

21 October 1943

Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

21 October 1943

'Progress' toy gyroscope, 1950-1960

1950-1960

"Adem 350" contra angle turbine handpiece

1975-1979

Blackpool heatwave

17 July 1955

Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

21 October 1943

Scenes at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach

01 August 1958

Midgets to Wed - Annie Kneps and Herman Retter

1938

Blackpool

01 August 1958

Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

21 October 1943

Scenes at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach

01 August 1958

Blackpool's Golden Mile - contact print by Terry Fincher

1958

Scenes at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach

15 August 1958

80-21 Voltage Controlled Digital Oscillator module.

1985

Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

21 October 1943

Blackpool

1967

Spend Your Summer Holidays at Blackpool in June

circa 1925

Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

21 October 1943

Blackpool

01 August 1958

Scenes at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach

01 August 1958

Blackpool

01 August 1958

Whit Sunday on Blackpool Beach

29 May 1966

Crowds at Blackpool Beach

24 April 1951
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into two strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Contact sheet cut into three strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Silver gelatin contact sheet by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985.Photos taken with a Box Brownie camera in Blackpool. Originally published in Picture Post, July 7, 1951. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Blackpool - Taken on a Box Brownie

1951
Contact sheet cut into two strips, by Bert Hardy, printed in 1985. Image taken for the "Fire-Fighters!" story in Picture Post, February 1, 1941. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Contact sheet showing firemen during the Blitz

1941
Booklet, paper with card covers, British Railways Board Accommodation Standards, issued by the British Railways Board, 1980. BR document no. 87111. 9pp. Printed by Taylor Printing of Blackpool.

British Railways Board Accomodation Standards

1980
'Essanbee' ferrotype camera by Benson Sharp, Blackpool with magnesium flash pan and quantity of card ferrotype mounts in fitted case. Lens Patent Number 164,422, Patented July 23, 1901.

The 'Essanbee' Automatic Ferrotype Camera

1901-1911
Booklet, paper, British Railways Superannuation Fund - New Section Trust Deed and Rules, issued by the BR Superannuation Fund, Stooperdale Offices, Darlington, Nov. 1975, printed by United Printing Services, Blackpool. Deals with the amalgamation of the GWR, LNER, LMS and SR superannuation funds into the BR Superannuation Fund by an Order of the Minister of Transport. Revised version. BR document no. 7021/2. 100pp with insert re rule amendments Dec. 1972 (document no. 7021/17) and death benefits (Document no 7021/3).

British Railways Superannuation Fund - New Section Trust Deed and Rules

1975-11
An untitled black and white silver gelatin photograph depicting a pier and beach, taken by Howard Walker. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Blackpool - Between the Piers', 25th November - 24th December 1983

Untitled

An untitled black and white silver gelatin photograph depicting four people playing football on a beach in front of a pier, taken by Howard Walker. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Blackpool - Between the Piers', 25th November - 24th December 1983

Untitled

A colour photograph entitled 'Christmas, Blackpool' by Barry Lewis. From an unknown Impressions Gallery exhibition featuring Network Photographers.

Christmas, Blackpool

Blackpool

Blackpool

Digital c-type print from We English by Simon Roberts: Blackpool Promenade, Lancashire, 2008 (printed July 2010). Edition 3 of 7.

Blackpool Promenade, Lancashire

2008 (2010)
Vintage black and white silver gelatine print, entitled 'Possibly Blackpool, Lancashire', depicting elderly couple sitting on deck chairs by a chain with 'keep out' sign and three small boys standing around them. Taken by Tony Ray-Jones in about 1967. Part of Tony Ray-Jones Archive collection.

Vintage black and white silver gelatine print

Signal print by Henri Cartier-Bresson, titled "Blackpool". Photograph shows a little boy kidding a statue of girl outside a sign shop in Blackpool. Photographer's signature in ink and embossed copyright stamp on front.

Blackpool

1962
Colour ink jet print on Innova fibre paper by Chris Steele-Perkins: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Conservative Pary Ball, Blackpool, from the series 'The Pleasure Principle'.

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Conservative Pary Ball, Blackpool

1989
Colour ink jet print on Innova fibre paper by Chris Steele-Perkins: Blackpool Beach, from the series 'The Pleasure Principle'.

Blackpool Beach

1989
Nuttall incendiary bomb scoop, made at Imperial Works, Blackpool prov., patent 11737/HO

Nuttall incendiary bomb scoop

unknown date
Rushes / 05/10/2001 / Filmed by Chris Hogg / The pier, the beach illuminations, tower and trams, filmed for the exhibition Wish you were here

Master MiniDV 'Rushes of Blackpool'

2001-10-05
A black and white pigment print photograph, entitled 'Blackpool' by Tony Ray-Jones, taken in 1967. This was selected from the original contact sheet by Martin Parr, and printed from the original negative in 2013.

Blackpool

(1967); 2013
A black and white pigment print photograph, entitled 'Blackpool' by Tony Ray-Jones, taken c. 1967. This was selected from the original contact sheet by Martin Parr, and printed from the original negative in 2013.

Blackpool

(circa 1967); 2013