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Click the link to listen. A worker at the Transport depot describes how the adverts are put on buses and trams. Years ago, they were hand-painted - but now a printed sticky-back vinyl is used. Getting those huge sheets of vinyl on smoothly with no bubbles is quite an art!
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Click the link to listen. A worker at the Transport Depot describes how buses and trams are painted, and how the skills have changed. Can you imagine getting used to the smell of all that varnish?!
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Click the link to listen. Don, an ex-worker at the Transport Depot, describes how the metal “tyres” for trams are made.
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Click the link to listen. Malgorzata, a Polish resident of Bloomfield, talks to interviewer Mike Edwards about the Polish community in Blackpool.
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Click the link to listen. Malgorzata, a Polish resident of Bloomfield, talks about the experience of coming here from Poland, and why she came.
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Click the link to listen. Local writer and historian Terry Regan talks about how the Bickerstaffes, one of the families that shaped Blackpool’s tourist trade, first started in business. They decided to buy some land from the local squire, and built a boatyard on it.
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Click to listen. Interviewer Mike Edwards, and the Rev Mike Ward of St Peter’s Church on Lytham Road, talk about ex-England football captain Jimmy Arnfield, who plays the organ at the church and who has been a member of the congregation of St Peter’s for many years.