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Joiner photograph of Central Drive south side September 2008.

From the “My Favourite Things” activity, at Dream Scheme youth club, September 2008.  We asked people at the youth club to photograph each other with their favourite thing; the participants decided on the pose and the lighting, but we kept the background the same.  This participant’s favourite thing is a photo of her grandson.

Before the Second World War, photographers in Blackpool (and many other holiday towns) used to snap people as they walked around, and then sell them a copy of the picture.  Unlike today, many people didn’t have a camera of their own, so it was a popular attraction! Lots of these pictures still survive, and they can tell us a lot about fashions and social life in the past.

Everyone’s got an old photo of someone from their family walking along the Prom, tucked away somewhere.  Why not upload yours to the website?