1920 postcard view, from Central Pier to Tower and North Pier, people, sail-boats, bathing machines Central Sands, Blackpool, UK
Monochrome picture postcard No 3, entitled 'Blackpool from Central Pier'. The publisher is unknown. Blackpool Tower opened in 1894 and the Great Wheel, planned as a rival, opened in 1896, but, unprofitable, was demolished in 1928. North Pier, in the background, the oldest of Blackpool's three piers, was opened in 1863. Stalls selling oysters are seen on the beach, together with bathing machines bearing the name 'W. Singleton'. Bathing machines, following the ending of the legal segregation of bathing areas in Britain in 1901, became stationary changing rooms, all but disappearing by 1914. The sail-boats, testimony to Blackpool's fishing origins, provide off-shore pleasure rides to interested holiday-makers. They did so until the 1960s. As the gardens in front of the hotels on the right side of the shot were given over to amusements,ice-cream stalls and money-making freak sideshows, Blackpool's famous 'Golden Mile' evolved. The card bears an August postmark and the year, unclear, ends in a 0, likely 1920.
Size: 1707px × 1058px
Location: Central Sands, from Central Pier to Tower and North Pier, Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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