Blackpool Picture Book Site URL: http://www.cyberpictures.net/blackpool/ [ Gallery 1 | Gallery 2 | Gallery 3 | The Future? | Feedback | Contact Info and Links Page ] Pictures on this page were taken in October, 1962

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Picture 482 Talbot Square. The middle track is used by Promenade specials that run between the Pleasure Beach and the Tower between Aug-Nov	Pictures 483 and 484 Outside the Metropole Hotel. In picture 483 the cinema has the films "Two Weeks in Another Town" and "Out of the Fog" - not quite for your photographer; just a wet and windy weekend in Blackpool! Note the tram pinch sign in picture 484.		Picture 485 Northern end of the Metropole Hotel
Picture 486 By Cocker Square Stop	Picture 487 By Cocker Square Stop	Picture 489 A mug of tea to hand! Something not available 'on the buses'.	Picture 490 Tram Driver at work
Picture 491 A tram driver who is happy in his job.	Pictures 492 and 493 Just outside Marton Depot		Picture 494 Entering Marton Depot
Pictures 495 and 496 Inside Marton Depot. Depot demolished with BP filling Station rebuilt on the site.		Picture 498 Just outside Marton Depot	Picture 499 Royal Oak
Picture 500 and 501A Whitegate Drive. In picture 500, the flash from the camera picks out the reflectors of the road sign. No known instances of today's equivalent sign, despite numerous new tramways in the UK.			Picture 508aa Whitegate Drive, looking North around the junction with Condor Grove