Home Period Victorian In pictures: Blackpool beach through time. Here, we look at Blackpool beach through the decades…. The beach at Blackpool in c, before the tower was built.
Crowds gather at the beach in c Two holidaymakers enjoy the heatwave on the beach at Blackpool in July Three girls enjoy a game of cricket on the beach in A staff sergeant makes sandcastles for his granddaughter at Blackpool beach while on leave in A couple buys seafood at Blackpool beach in Men ft up Blackpool Tower where repairs are being carried out in Blackpool resources.
In the early years, travel to Blackpool involved much discomfort, a journey from Manchester taking a day and one from Yorkshire taking two. However, the development of Fleetwood soon ground to a halt through lack of capital, and the railway -- then on the verge of collapse -- was only saved by cheap excursion trains from the industrial north, many of the trippers travelling on to Blackpool from Poulton station by horsebus or wagonette.
When the railway reached Talbot Road station on 29 April , the resort was scarcely prepared for the thousands of visitors from Lancashire and Yorkshire who could now reach it with comparative ease. After World War II, the shift from rail to road continued, but even more markedly than before. Central station closed in , giving space for the development of the Coral Island entertainment centre and courts complex, as well as releasing extensive areas for car and coach parking.
In , the M55 opened, allowing swift vehicle passage from the M6 to the borough boundary.
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