Blackpool Credits

Spacial Maps

 

Storymapper

Kezi Gardom

Contributors

Many thanks to the people in and around Blackpool who so kindly gave us their stories.

Tracey Brewster

Doreen Connolly

Penny Corney

Angelo Diamante

Nikki Diamante

Irene Dickinson

Jane Dickinson

Zoe Gifford

Ross Goodwin

Juliette Wendy Gregson

Bob Grugel

Deborah Contessa Hargreaves

Susan Holliday

Mohammed Jamil

Phil Kelsall

Zoe Lamond

Lucy Laverly

Eric Lee

Lorna Mellis

Geoffrey Moore

Emily Morgan

John Moss

Basil Newby

Fred Omasan

Nigel Patterson

Debra Petulengro

Margaret Race

Sharia Rahman

Raymond P Ryan

Richard Taylor

Callin Vaughan

Kurt Walsh

Margaret Watt

Nicky Williams

Mark Yates

Special Thanks

Blackpool Central Library and the team there without whom this project would not have been possible.

Eva Krysiak

Archive

With thanks to BFI National Archive for access and support.

BBC

North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University

 

Mobile AR trail ‘All aboard the Queercoaster’ and Blackpool virtual cinema

 

Trailmakers

 

Joseph Doubtfire

Leo Mercer

 

Special thanks to:

Narrator: D J Zoe

Joni Singleton

 Basil Newby

Malcolm Whittaker

Linda Fazzi

Phil Brierley

Bryan Rees

Kevin Poole

Larry Murphy 

Mark Malcolm Dunn

 

StoryFutures MOBILE AR TRAIL CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM

 

Executive Producer: Amanda Murphy

Producers: Helen O’Neill, Tom Bonnett

Assistant Producer: Amy Strike

Script Editor: Writer: Sara Missaghian

Archive Producer: Rebecca O’Connor Thompson

Archive Researcher: Nessa Dundon

Head of Tech: Neil Smith

Assistants: Laura Roser, Emma Burke

Executives for StoryFutures: James Bennett, Madeline Bates, Sarah Smyth, Will Saunders

 

NEXUS TEAM

Creative Director Kim-Leigh Pontin 

Executive Producer Colin Davis 

Senior  Producer: David Bradshaw 

Technical Project Manager: Nuno Dias 

Creative: Kassiani Koufaki

Studio CG Lead: Paul Mitcheson

QA: Joanathan O’Shea

 

BFI Team

BFI National Archive Curator Simon McCallum

BFI National Archive Curatorial Assistant Joanna Drayton

BFI National Archive Rights & Contracts Manager: Annabelle Shaw

BFI Archive Access Esopen Bale, John Carino, Katrina Stokes

BFI Executives Ben Luxford, Gillian Scothern, Rhidian Davis

BFI marketing and communications Colette Geraghty, Nora Sandor, Nyree Jillings, Sarah Bemand

 

BBC Team

Editor, BBC Archive Peter Rippon

Senior Producer, BBC Archive Susannah Stevens

 

Courtesy of BFI National Archive

AIDS: Monolith (1987 © Crown Copyright)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-aids-monolith-1987-online

Gay Life: Being Gay in the Thirties (1981 © ITV Archive)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-being-gay-in-the-thirties-gay-life-1981-online

 Holiday (1957 © The British Film Institute)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-holiday-1957-online

The Open Road (1926) 

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-open-road-2006-online

Blackpool North Pier (1903)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-blackpool-north-pier-1903-1902-online

Blackpool Promenade (1924)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-blackpool-promenade-1924-online

Carrying On In Blackpool (1917)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-carrying-on-in-blackpool-1917-online

 

BBC copyright material reproduced courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation.  All rights reserved.

AIDS: North West Tonight (07/03/1995)

Basil Newby and the Blackpool LGBTQ+ Scene (26/02/2021)

News: John Wolfenden Report (04/09/1957)

Newsnight: Tory Party Conference (09/10/1987)

The Weather Show (25/09/1997)

 

North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University

Big Dipper, 1973

https://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/viewVideo.php?token=2310agw11251w7h226504aP5nxZYm6118b49Hq2dw

Blackpool: A Nation’s Playground, 1939 (The Railway Films Archive)

https://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/viewVideo.php?token=9364agw23462dw484045nxZYm1066b49Hq2

Blackpool Kaleidoscope, 1963

https://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/viewVideo.php?token=5066agw2160649H433604Ym3452b4

The Big Week, 1933

https://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/viewVideo.php?token=8252agw35869Hq73204ZYm3733b49

 

Blackpool Council Heritage Service

Bolton Council. From the collection of Bolton Library and Museum Services

David Tuer for DJT Digital Media

Divine Official Enterprises, LLC.

ITV Archive

Gregg Gorman 

Mirrorpix/Alamy

PA Images/Alamy

 

Music

The Nerve

Love Reaction written by Bobby Orlando issued under license from Universal Music Publishing Ltd. on behalf of Universal Music Corp, Performed by Divine by courtesy of Divine Official Enterprises, LLC.  

Freesound: InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/