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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.  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.

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Click to listen.  Ex-Mayor, Edmund Wynne, remembers the “song booths” that used to exist along the promenade when he was a child - small booths where someone played the piano and sold song sheets, so that people could sing along to the popular songs of the day. 

Do you remember the song booths?

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Click the link to listen.  Simon Grennan, manager of the Bloomfield Talks project, talks to interviewer Mike Edwards about how the project tries to reveal the hidden lives behind Bloomfield’s outer “painted face”.

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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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A lady from Preston who now lives in Bloomfield talks about her feelings about the two places, how Blackpool has changed over the years, and how Blackpool looks when you see it from a plane!

Before the Second World War, photographers in Blackpool (and many other holiday towns) used to snap people as they walked around, and then sell them a copy of the picture.  Unlike today, many people didn’t have a camera of their own, so it was a popular attraction! Lots of these pictures still survive, and they can tell us a lot about fashions and social life in the past.

Everyone’s got an old photo of someone from their family walking along the Prom, tucked away somewhere.  Why not upload yours to the website?