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Click to listen.  Mike Edwards interviews local businessman and self-made millionaire Max Smith, about how he started his career in the late 1960s, and how different it was to run a bed-and-breakfast 40 years ago.

He also tells how he was the first ever to get a licence for a pay-at-the-door nightclub on the Promenade!

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Click to listen.  Local businessman Max Smith talks to Mike Edwards about the tourist trade in Foxhall and Bloomfield, and what the future might hold.

Max suggests a couple of possible changes that could be made.  What do you think of these ideas?  Have your say by adding a comment below.

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Click the link to listen - Mike Edwards interviews Debbie Priest, landlady of the Rosedale Hotel on Lytham Road, about what it’s like to run a Blackpool boarding house, and about how she got into the trade.

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Click the link to listen - Mike Edwards interviews ex-Mayor Edmund Wynne, about how and why he and his wife Nancy chose to settle in Blackpool just after the Second World War.

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Bloomfield guesthouse owners talk about how busy Blackpool used to get in the 1950s - visitors might find themselves sharing a room, or even a bed, with strangers!

Local resident Frank Murray compares the traditional type of holiday accommodation (the Hotel Concorde) with the newer type (the newly-built Travelodge).  You can also see a leaflet from each of them; and a photo of the Travelodge, taken from the Southern Gateway.

What do you think about the old versus the new? Add a comment!

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This is a joke collected at the Dream Scheme youth club as part of the “Tell Us a Joke” activity