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Click to listen. Interviewer Mike Edwards talks to guesthouse owners Noreen and Steve about how they started in the hotel business, and the entertainments that have been put on at the new St Chad’s Headland during 2008.
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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 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.
Railway lines into Blackpool.
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We carried bags for a shilling.