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Click to listen.  Rev Mike Ward of St Peter’s Church on Lytham Road talks about the plans afoot for redeveloping the building.

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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.

Blackpool’s always welcomed people from all over the world.  There’s now a Polish delicatessen on Lytham Road, a sign of the latest new community to arrive (although there’s been Polish people in Blackpool for a long time, there’s been a new wave of migration from Poland in recent years.)

If you have any memories of the Polish community in Bloomfield, add a post or a comment to tell us more!  Or perhaps you can tell us something about one of the other communities that are part of the area’s rich mix?