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Click the link to listen.  A worker at the Transport Depot describes how buses and trams are painted, and how the skills have changed.  Can you imagine getting used to the smell of all that varnish?!

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Click the link to listen.  Don, an ex-worker at the Transport Depot, describes how the metal “tyres” for trams are made.

This photo was taken by Yannick Dixon in September 2008, and is a portrait of a worker at the Transport Depot, Rigby Road.

Ex-Illuminations worker Frank writes about the last ever Open Day held by the Illuminations at their current site, in summer 2008.  You can also see newspaper reports about the Illuminations’ proposed move  to a new site on Squires Gate Lane, and about the redevelopment of Blackpool and The Fylde College, which will take over the Illuminations Depot’s present site.

Have you ever been to an Open Day at the existing depot?  And what do you think of the proposed move and the changes it will bring?  Add a comment about your thoughts, or even start a new story!

Frank, an ex-Illuminations worker, writes about his experiences of working at the Illuminations from 1992 to 2007.  You can also see a recent leaflet about some of the special events taking place in 2008 as part of the Illuminations.

Frank describes a conversation with his friend Peter, about the Mecca nightclub.  You can also see a cutting from the local paper about the Mecca.

If you have any memories of the Mecca (under any of its various names), why not add a comment?