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Click to listen.  Local businessman Max Smith talks about how he came to Blackpool from Todmorden - and how he was born over the border in in Yorkshire by about 500 yards! 

He also tells how, since he settled in Blackpool in 1957, all his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have been born here and are true Sandgrown’uns.

What does being Sandgrown, (or for that matter, living here and *not* being Sandgrown) mean to you?  Do you think it’s important, and why?  Add a comment and tell us.

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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”.