History Hunters home Blackpool home Raikes Hall team the rise and rise of the working class holiday team the movers and shakers team Blackpool history maps evidence and finds glossary [resources]	resources websites general History Hunters resources Blackpool today 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