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Where is Blackpool?

Blackpool Borough Council's web site
http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/

Knowhere Guide to Blackpool
http://www.knowhere.co.uk/3165.html

A tour of Blackpool and the Fylde Coast
http://www.fyldecoast.co.uk/

John Finlay's Blackpool website -- a local's view
http://website.lineone.net/~johnfinlay/blacpool/
including his 'where is Blackpool?' page
http://website.lineone.net/~johnfinlay/blacpool/whereis.htm

another local's insights -- from Ron Curtis
http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/roncurtis/roncurtis/

180 degree photo of Blackpool
http://www.t-webby.demon.co.uk/blackpool_180.htm

Blackpool Pleasure Beach
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/be66/club/members/bpb/

general

Lancashire County Library's Online Catalogue
http://neon.airtime.co.uk/linnet/

Lancashire GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~englan/

organisations

Blackpool Central Library
Queen Street
Blackpool
Lancashire FY1 1PU
Tel: 01253 478103

The Grundy Art Gallery
Queen Street
Blackpool
Lancashire FY1 1PX
Tel: 01253 478170
Fax: 01253 478172

Public Record Office
Ruskin Avenue
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel: 0181 876 3444
Fax: 0181 878 8905

Lancashire Records Office
Bow Lane
Preston
Lancashire PR1 2RE
Tel: 01772 263039
Fax: 01772 263050

Documentary Photography Archive
Greater Manchester County Record Office
56 Marshall Street
New Cross, Manchester M4 5FU
Open Tuesdays 10am-1pm, 2-5pm or by appointment
Enquiries: Andrey Linkman
c/o Room GO11
Tylecote Building
Cavendish Street
Manchester M15 6BG
Tel: 0161 247 1765
Preserves old photographs taken in the North West, which document the lifeof the region.

North West Sound Archive
Old Steward's Office
Castle Grounds
Clitheroe Castle
Clitheroe
Lancashire BB7 1AZ
Tel/Fax: 01200 427 897

further reading

Blackpool: a pictorial history by Ted Lightbown, Phillimore, Chichester, 1994

The Blackpool landlady: a social history by John K. Walton, Manchester, 1978

The Blackpool story by Brian Turner and Steve Palmer, Corporation of Blackpool, 1976, new edition 1994