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We carried bags for a shilling.

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They like Blackpool but they stay at Chorley.

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Bloomfield bed and breakfast beds.

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Click the link to listen - Mike Edwards interviews ex-Mayor Edmund Wynne, about how and why he and his wife Nancy chose to settle in Blackpool just after the Second World War.

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Bloomfield guesthouse owners talk about how busy Blackpool used to get in the 1950s - visitors might find themselves sharing a room, or even a bed, with strangers!

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A Bloomfield resident, originally from Leicestershire, talks about the contrasts between visiting Blackpool before, during, and after the Second World War.  During wartime, the Tower was crowded with people of all sorts of different nationalities.

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Bloomfield residents remember the cooking in boarding-houses during the 1930s and 40s, when you had to bring your own food and the landlady cooked it for you!