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Click to listen.  Ex-Mayor, Edmund Wynne, remembers the “song booths” that used to exist along the promenade when he was a child - small booths where someone played the piano and sold song sheets, so that people could sing along to the popular songs of the day. 

Do you remember the song booths?

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Ex-Mayor of Blackpool, Edmund Wynne, talks about how he feels about Blackpool, and what it means to him; and the challenges the future will bring for the town.

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Click to listen - Ex-Mayor Edmund Wynne remembers how controversy erupted when it was suggested that visitors from Glasgow caused trouble in Blackpool when they visited.  Edmund, as the Mayor, made a public statement to say this was untrue, and that Glaswegians were always welcome in Blackpool.

Personal comment about Blackpool.

I was hoping to find a Polaroid camera for sale but all they had was hair straighteners and pork scratchings.