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Work began on Blackpool's second pier in 1867 and took less than a year to complete. Promoted as the 'pier for the masses', it was hugely popular and offered a variety of entertainments.

Cleveleys is the most northerly, from Blackpool, of the small resorts leading up to Fleetwood.

Until Blackpool's third pier was built at South Shore in 1893, the one here was known as South Pier.

Note the jaunty open-top car, no doubt heading through Preston and on to Blackpool.

The Fylde area has long-been popular with holiday-makers, for it is well-sited for day-trips to the Lake District as well as the sea-side resorts of the Blackpool coast.

The pier opened in 1868 as the South Pier, then changed its name to Blackpool Central when the Victoria (now South) Pier opened.

He also worked hard to get a lifeboat for the town, and wrote a history of Blackpool.

At Blackpool, sailing boats were often loaded and unloaded by means of portable gangways, one of which is in the picture.

If you think something is missing amongst the buildings overlooking North Pier you are right, for Blackpool Tower was not begun until 1891.

The number 19 Dreadnought tram approaching (left) bears a poster advertising the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, where 'Whirled into Happiness' was being staged.

At just under 21 miles from Whitby, Scarborough rapidly developed to become the premier resort of the Yorkshire coast, and was often overrun with day trippers, as Blackpool was.

It was only after the railway arrived in 1848 that Morecambe evolved as a resort, developing its own attractions to compete with neighbouring Blackpool.

Few people can now remember how crowded the beach became on a warm summer day - the scenes here were comparable with Blackpool Beach.

Bispham lies just a little to the north of Blackpool's bright lights and seemingly non- stop amusements, and its sea-front hotels and guesthouses attracted holidaymakers seeking a more

This stretch of the coast developed long after Blackpool; with the coming of the tram system, there was much rivalry to purchase land for hotels, hydros and houses.

Whether it be Blackpool, Dunoon, Port Bannatyne, Port Erin or any of a hundred other resorts in the 1890s, holidaymakers had developed a passion for messing about in boats, mainly of the rowing variety

The painted board to the right appears to be a feature of Blackpool Illuminations; this long stretch of lights, switched on in early autumn to lengthen the holiday season, ended at Bispham.

At Blackpool, sailing boats were often loaded and unloaded by means of portable gangways, one of which is in the picture.

Doubling as a landing stage for steamers, North Pier was the first of Blackpool's three to be built and opened in 1863.

One of Blackpool's former attractions was a gigantic Ferris wheel, seen here behind the sea-front baths.

Like Blackpool, Whitley Bay became a popular destination for holiday-makers from Glasgow, and it also prospered as a tripper resort for the people of Tyneside.

One of the gondolas from the big wheel at Blackpool ended its life as a cafe here, and stood just to the right of our picture.

Preston was the centre of a wheel of railway transport: spokes went off to Blackpool, Lancaster, Blackburn, Manchester, London, Liverpool and Southport.

The village became Increasingly popular with visitors because of its proximity to Blackpool, but caravans and a holiday camp seem at odds with a village recorded in the Domesday Book.