A sea of Men
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Cinema during the War.
Coming to Blackpool after the War
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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.
We’re a little island
Stories and memories from people living in Bloomfield. The stories were collected at a reminiscence session in August 2008 and written down and illustrated by a member of the reminiscence group.
Hoarding food
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Bloomfield residents remember how people during the war used to hoard any luxury foods they got, and save them for a rainy day - but sometimes the “rainy day” never came!
The plane that crashed
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A Bloomfield resident remembers an amazing incident when she was a child during the Second World War, when a plane nearly crashed into her house.
Rationing
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Bloomfield residents remember the rationing of food and clothes during the Second World War, and talk about how the rationing system worked.
Before and after the War
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A Bloomfield resident, originally from Leicestershire, talks about the contrasts between visiting Blackpool before, during, and after the Second World War. During wartime, the Tower was crowded with people of all sorts of different nationalities.