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Click to listen.  The Rev Mike Ward, of St Peter’s Church, talks to Mike Smith about how his church is like Blackpool itself - it welcomes anyone and everyone!

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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.

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.  These two friends chose each other as their favourite thing.

Read Muriel’s memories about the community around Savile Road.  The stories were collected at a reminiscence session in August 2008, and written down by another member of the reminiscence group.

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A woman who moved from Blackburn to Bloomfield talks about funny experiences of friendliness and unfriendliness in the area, and about Bonfire Night and street parties in the 70s.