Stories about 'Bloomfield'

Liberal Corner

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Click to listen - Mike Edwards interviews ex-Mayor Edmund Wynne about his corner shop in Bloomfield, which, because Edmund and his wife Nancy were active in the Liberal party, became known as “Liberal Corner”.  Edmund also talks about the Blackpool Guardian, the newspaper that they ran.

Bloomfield Talks Tea Party by Yannick Dixon

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During the Bloomfield Talks ‘Tea Party’ on Saturday 11th October 2008, I took some photographs to record different aspects of the event. It was great fun and I hope you enjoy the pictures. If you’d like to see more, please take a minute to view them on my photography website:

http://www.yannickdixon.com

For those of you who attended Bloomfield Talks, I hope you had a great time.

All the best

Yannick

Going Downhill

Personal comment about the fate of Bloomfield.

Moved to Blackpool

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Snippet of personal history

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Click the link to listen.  Interviewer Mike Edwards talks to Simon Grennan, manager of the Bloomfield Talks project, about what “Bloomfield Talks” is all about.

A painted face and a big heart

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Click the link to listen.  Simon Grennan, manager of the Bloomfield Talks project, talks to interviewer Mike Edwards about how the project tries to reveal the hidden lives behind Bloomfield’s outer “painted face”.

Setting up a new community centre

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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.