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Click to listen.  The Rev Mike Ward, of St Peter’s Church, talks to Mike Smith about how his church is like Blackpool itself - it welcomes anyone and everyone!

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Click to listen - Ex-Mayor Edmund Wynne remembers how controversy erupted when it was suggested that visitors from Glasgow caused trouble in Blackpool when they visited.  Edmund, as the Mayor, made a public statement to say this was untrue, and that Glaswegians were always welcome in Blackpool.

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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”.