A plane crashed at Pontins, there was a horrific incident at Blackpool Victoria Hospital when an eye doctor stabbed three children and there was a fire at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. It was a year of strikes in industry but it was also a year of new attractions in Blackpool. Roll on to 1973 and while Blackpool Zoo elephants took a bath, electricians were fixing bulbs to the top of the Tower for the illuminations.
7. Blackpool 1972-1973
Blackpool Operatic Players perform with all the bouncy confidence of TV stars reviving 'The New Moon' at the Winter Gardens Pavilion. This is not surprising considering the group impressed millions of TV viewers on Opportunity Knocks before they performed on stage in Blackpool
9. Blackpool 1972-1973
A thrush decided to build her nest and lay four eggs in a most unusual place - 20ft up at the intersection of a network of scaffolding protecting a hoist. Foreman concrete worker Peter Nicholson, 38 was working on the site at Clifton Drive junction in South Shore when he first noticed the nest
10. Blackpool 1972-1973
Summer show star Danny la Rue received a giant stick of rock after switiching on the Illuminations in 1972. The Talbot Square crowd also heard Danny talk to Concorde pilot Brian Trubshaw, recorded earlier in the day as the jet swept over the Fylde
11. Blackpool 1972-1973
Former Blackpool tram driver John Nicholls, known as Jack (left) in the 70s
12. Blackpool 1972-1973
Dog handlers patrolled the hospital area after the horrific early morning killings in 1972