33 evocative historical Fylde pictures down the decades in Blackpool, Fleetwood, Poulton and St Annes

The Fylde Coast is ancient and is documented, as one picture caption suggests, back a thousand years.

These pictures piece together the landscape, towns, buildings and people of the Fylde from farming to the coast, from Fleetwood through to Blackpool, Lytham and everything in between.

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