Blackpool No. 2

Carnival, Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

Posted on 28th September 1926 with a large 'Say It By Telephone' postmark to: Miss Ivy Casson, 28 Hutchinson St, Stockton on Tees.

The message reads:

'Dear Ivy,

We are having a good time and it is nice weather.  We were in this place and saw some kiddies you would have liked it remember me to you [sic] Mother with Best Love Doris xxx from Anne'

Pre-1914 postcard.  A closer view of Maxim's Flying Machine is in this previous post.

Posted 19th July 1936 to: Master D. Wheway, Stanley House School, Bristol Rd, Birmingham.

The message reads:

'Arrived 11 o/c.  Leaving 12. tonight so shall have a good day.  Very blowy.  Much love M + D.'

I don't remember a lake like this in the 1980s, when we went to Blackpool for days out, but I do remember going on a ride called 'The Rafts' or something similar, which could have been constructed within the former lake.  

A photograph originally taken during daylight which has been doctored to present a night scene.  I'm not sure that all of the 'illuminations' added in were actually real, e.g. the spaces between the balustrade in the foreground.  Also, if you look at the 'illuminated trams' shaped like boats, it's obvious from the scale of the people standing right next to them that they are actually cars underneath the added paint!