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Click to listen. Ex-Mayor, Edmund Wynne, talks about the entertainers that used to come to Blackpool; and how holidays in Blackpool have changed over the years, from family holidays to stag and hen parties.
From the “My Favourite Things” activity, at Dream Scheme youth club, September 2008. We asked people at the youth club to photograph each other with their favourite thing; the participants decided on the pose and the lighting, but we kept the background the same. This participant’s favourite thing is Bourbon biscuits.
Read the memories of a woman who came to Bloomfield from Bolton in the 1950s. The stories were collected at a reminiscence session in August 2008, and written down by another member of the group.
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Bloomfield residents remember how people during the war used to hoard any luxury foods they got, and save them for a rainy day - but sometimes the “rainy day” never came!
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Bloomfield residents remember some of the many ice cream parlours of Blackpool. Which was your favourite?
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Bloomfield residents remember the rationing of food and clothes during the Second World War, and talk about how the rationing system worked.
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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.