A large crowd of fans and a large jam butty (freshly caught in the Irish Sea) greeted comedian Ken Dodd in 1974. Ken was in Blackpool for the official opening of a new cafe, the Chuck Wagon in Deansgate, owned by Gerard Naprous and his partner Tina Photo: Submit
It took a lot of manpower in January 1974 to remove the horse trough, which was a well known landlmark on St Annes beach, north of the Pier . Behind stand the wooden beach chalets which have long since gone Photo: Submit