These incredible pictures are mostly unseen and cast a fascinating insight into our two through two decades
They are from the 1920s and 1930s and show a changing Blackpool - from its circus animals to wrapping up the beaches for the summer season, the people, fashions and street scenes from the past - they are a brilliant clutch of nostalgia.
A man accompanied by a female instructor as he rides a machine for strengthening leg muscles. The gauge on the wall possibly measuring resistance, at the training centre for disabled soldiers in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, 20th February 1920. (Photo by Thompson/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Women Ambulance Drivers In Training. More than a hundred women enrolled as ambulance drivers under the Womens' Voluntary Service.At the Blackpool Corporation Driving School they are taught A.R.P, mechanics and gas drill. The picture shows women ambulance drivers receiving instruction on a car engine at Blackpool, Blackpool. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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