Blackpool Illuminations

Blackpool Illuminations Memorabilia, plus 14 historic Factoids.

                                
                    Festoon Strings

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                    Owls

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                    Party Poppers

1 

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                    Pelicans

2 

4

Toucans

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1929

Blackpool Illluminations
From the Reuters archive.

1931

Scintillating City
Gaumont Graphic Rewsreel from Reuters archive.

1932

Fairytales in Lights
Gaumont Graphic Newsreel from Reuters archive.

1935

Blackpool Illuminations - Magnificent spectacle with 300,000 lights
From the Pathe Gazette

1935 to 1939

Blackpool Illuminations

Various shots, exact date unknown.

1937

Blackpool
From the Pathe Gazette.

1949

The Big Switch on at Blackpool
For the first time in eleven years the town of Blackpool turns on their lights.
Gaumont British News from the Reuters archive.

1950