Sandwiched between Blackpool and Lytham on the south corner of the Fylde Coast, St Annes remains a bustling town. These photos show St Annes in earlier days and some show how little has changed over the decades...
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St Annes Road West leads off to the railway station on the left where landaus await their fares in this view looking towards The Crescent in 1900. The junction with Park Road can just be seen on the right with Walmsley and Son, dressmakers and milliners. Further along on the corner of St Andrews Road South is Finlay & Co advertising it's own smoke mixture.
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By the 1960s the walls and private gardens had long since disappeared to make way for shops, but Wood Street remained just as leafy.
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Pictured in the late 1895, these three little girls were standing in Derbe Road, at it's junction with Clifton Drive South, soon after houses were built there. The recently laid tramlines can be seen in the foreground but it wasn't until 1897 that the trams ran from St Annes to Lytham.
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Although this area of St Annes was a prosperous residential area York Road was still unmade when this photograph was taken looking towards St Andrews Road South in the 1890s.
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A view from the window of a house on Clifton Drive North looking Towards St Annes Square. On the left are the trees in Ashton Gardens with St Annes on Sea United Reform Church beyond. In the far distance is the Spire of The Drive Methodist Church. Traffic was light in this 1950s photograph.
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A 1953 view of St Annes Square, looking inland across Clifton Drive North to the wide expanse of pavements either side of St Annes Road West. Burton's gents outfitters stands on one corner and Sander's store on the other.