These brilliant black and white photos take us all the way back to 1956.
It was the year a town centre cafe collapsed- Redmans in Bank Hey Street and it was also devastation for Blackpool Tower Ballroom which was gutted by fire. It was a year of flash floods too.
An incoming Ribble bus ploughs through flooded Whitegate Drive overtaking a tram on the Marton route near the junction with St Ives Avenue in July, 1956
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