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Click the link to listen.  Mayor Mary Smith, interviewer Mike Edwards, and local guesthouse owners Steve and Noreen Westhead talk about the new headland and its entertainments - the concerts, and perhaps the Illuminations switch-on.

They also get into a heated debate about who was the best ever Doctor Who!

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Click to listen. Interviewer Mike Edwards talks to the Rev Michael Ward of St Peter’s Church, Lytham Road, in October 2008, about the church’s plans for regeneration and creating a new community centre for the area.

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Click the link to listen.  Simon Grennan, manager of the Bloomfiield Talks project, talks to interviewer Mike Edwards about the history of Blackpool Tower, its indoor circus, aqaurium and other entertainments.

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Click the link to listen - Mike Edwards interviews Debbie Priest, landlady of the Rosedale Hotel on Lytham Road, about what it’s like to run a Blackpool boarding house, and about how she got into the trade.

I was hoping to find a Polaroid camera for sale but all they had was hair straighteners and pork scratchings.

I had no idea buses were painted by hand.

Can be weird meeting people for the first time. Standing on Ibbison Court, we chatted about shopping for shoes, as good a way to break the ice as any.