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'Warmth, excess, fun and surreal humour': Amazing photos sum up exactly what Blackpool was like in the 80s

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An old fella dozes on the beach with a newspaper hat on his head and a finger up one nostril. A drunk dressed in a Santa costume staggers home from the pub helped by a mate.

And in a sweet shop a heavily-tanned man flashes a beaming smile as he holds up a giant cig and a full English breakfast made out of rock.

They're just some of the brilliant pictures taken by photographer Barry Lewis that sum up the 'warmth, excess, fun and surreal humour' of Blackpool during the 1980s. READ MORE: Remember Atlantic 252?

The story of the station that was the sound of the 90s In an illustrious career Barry, from London, travelled the world as a staff photographer for Vogue, saw his work exhibited at the V&A Museum and set up a highly-successful picture agency.

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