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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. The Rev Mike Ward, of St Peter’s Church, talks to Mike Smith about how his church is like Blackpool itself - it welcomes anyone and everyone!
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Click to listen. Rev Mike Ward of St Peter’s Church on Lytham Road talks about the plans afoot for redeveloping the building.
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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.
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Mayor Mary Smith talks to guesthouse owners Steve and Noreen, about how things are improving in Blackpool for guesthouse owners.
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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.