The third in the series featuring festive menus from Blackpool hotels covering the period from the late 1940s through to 1969.
They come from the collection of Suzanne Morehead who kindly passed them over to me a few years ago.
I have always planned to use them in a series but always missed the boat of featuring them at Christmas, and running the stories in April seemed a bit daft.
What I particularly like about them is the artwork, which is a style I remember so well from the period.
1947 will have been the first Christmas after the war that many people decided it was time to spend the holiday away in a hotel letting someone else do the business of coking cleaning and entertaining.
And even given the restrictions of rationing and shortages it will have been an attractive proposition, even though it will have been restricted to a handful of the well off.
But during the 1950s into the 60s with growing prosperity and rising expectations there will have been more who fancied a Christmas or New Year away.
Location, Blackpool, 1947-69
Pictures; from various hotels, 1947-1969, from the collection of Suzanne Morehead
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