Ansdell Road Fruit Shop
Ansdell Road Fruit Shop 1941 - personal recollection
A vegetarian
Read the memories of from a Bloomfield woman who was a vegetarian long before it was fashionable! The stories were collected at a reminiscence session in August 2008, and written down by another member of the group.
Nora’s story
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Read the memories of Nora, who came to Blackpool in 1941. The stories were collected at a reminiscence session in August 2008, and written down by another member of the group. You can also hear a recording of the conversation.
A Bloomfield woman’s working life
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A lady from Bloomfield talks about her working life in the 1940s and 50s - at Vickers Armstrong during the Second World War, then as a comptometer at Nutbrowns, and later as a cashier where she met stars such as Bruce Forsyth and Frankie Vaughan.