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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.  Mike Edwards interviews local businessman and self-made millionaire Max Smith, about how he started his career in the late 1960s, and how different it was to run a bed-and-breakfast 40 years ago.

He also tells how he was the first ever to get a licence for a pay-at-the-door nightclub on the Promenade!

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Click to listen.  Local businessman Max Smith talks to Mike Edwards about the tourist trade in Foxhall and Bloomfield, and what the future might hold.

Max suggests a couple of possible changes that could be made.  What do you think of these ideas?  Have your say by adding a comment below.

Frank Murray collected a newspaper cutting about the Continental Market coming to York St, Foxhall in summer 2008.  Have you visited the Continental Market?  What did you think?  Add a comment!

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