They capture familiar faces, forgotten places and local legends from throughout the decade.
This retro picture gallery shows how different streets around the North West, including Blackpool, Burnley, Wigan, Preston, Liverpool and Manchester, looked all those years ago.
It features old pubs and lost shops, plus some of the characters who worked there, and a team of heroes with a head for heights.
Events of the day are captured too, including the Royal Lancashire Show, a very rainy Bickersall Festival, and an It’s a Knockout competition.
Screaming fans at a David Essex concert, Lulu on stage in the panto, and a publicity stunt for the latest James Bond movie are among the other eye-catching photos.
If you’re looking for more 70s nostalgia, why not check out our look at 9 things that made a perfect weekend back then.
25. Cobbled street
Richard Street, Burnley, pictured sometime between 1966 and 1974, with mill chimneys visible above the rooftops of Gillow Street | Getty Images Photo: Eileen Deste/English Heritage
26. Centenary Way
Centenary Way, Burnley, sometime between 1966 and 1974, with the bus station to the right and Burnley Corporation Refuse Destructor complex to the left | Getty Images Photo: Eileen Deste/English Heritage/Heritage Images
27. 'Stickmen'
Electricians Dez Clark, Bert Roberts, Paul Hopton and David Neath pictured 518 feet above ground as they fit the illuminations to Blackpool Tower in 1973 | National World Photo: Peter Owen
28. At the wheel
Fleetwood Nautical College students aboard the Lancastria Training Ship in 1973 | National World