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Click to listen.  Local businessman Max Smith talks about how he came to Blackpool from Todmorden - and how he was born over the border in in Yorkshire by about 500 yards! 

He also tells how, since he settled in Blackpool in 1957, all his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have been born here and are true Sandgrown’uns.

What does being Sandgrown, (or for that matter, living here and *not* being Sandgrown) mean to you?  Do you think it’s important, and why?  Add a comment and tell us.

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 a photo of her grandson.