Sam Heughan is prone to posting some selfies on Instagram but his latest one is very different to his usual photos.
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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.
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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.
And he also found himself repeatedly drawn to the people and places of the Golden Mile.
Between 1984 and 1989 he returned to the seaside town time-and-time again, capturing its gaudy glamour in all its glory.
"Blackpool seemed so far away in the north that it became an exotic chimera when I saw it on TV.
"Miles of sandy beaches with donkey rides, not one but three piers, a huge fun-fair, a mile-long promenade full of fortune-tellers, pubs, fish-and-chip shops, plus of course the famous Illuminations along the Promenade," he said.
"These images stayed with me and when I became a photographer, like so many before, I headed north and have been photographing the insanity of this party town, both in summer and winter, for over 35 years."
Barry would often catch the train up from London, stashing his Honda moped in the guard's carriage, before riding up and down the promenade looking out for photo opportunities.
His days would start early when, if the tide was out, the circus horses
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