LAUREN that was a great post .. bless you. Yes I'm hoping to get back for another session of beautiful Britain this coming summer. I must say that when I went into Blackpool last year I was a bit confused by the changes there. No Palace Varieties no Feldmans .. the Winter Gardens not the same. To one who knew Blackpool like the back of her hand .. I felt quite lost. Oh those wonderul times we had in those early days. I lived in Cleveleys as a little giel and remember the open ground before the Odeon was built in 1936 or 37. Deserted gypsy caravans were moved from there to make way. The Odeon was quite beautiful arto deco design and it became the venue for the Mickey Mouse Club where, I guess I was one of the first 'Mouseketeers' wonderful talent quests were held there. The Odeon today now called the Orion has not been changed in appearance and I was so pleased to be able to take pictures. Today it is a Leisure Centre with Bingo owned by my neice and her husband as is the 'Arena' on the front which before the war was where Charlie's Follies appeared every summer season. That is now called Olympia with a children's corner. The Savoy Cinema and coffee lounge is no longer there in Victoria Road, and the Pavilion Cinema went long ago. It started off as 'Beanlands' and it's cinema days were quite distinctly memorable for the corrugated iron construction of the building and not being able to hear a word when it was raining. We lived in Fleetwood for a few years and Blackpool was a very popular place with the fishermen when they came in from sea. A hot bath and best clothes on .. then with the missus or the girl friend it was off in a taxi to Blackpool to see a show. Names of the day were Wee Georgie Woods, George Formby, Arthur Askey, Kitty O'Shea, Our Gracie, Dave Morris, Rawitz and Landauer, Charlie Kunz, Ronnie Ronalde, Old Mother Riley and Kitty (Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane), Forsythe, Seamon and Farrell, Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, Josef Locke, Sandy Powell (Can you hear me Mother?), and on and on and on. The late Roy Castle a Cleveleys lad .. always a favourite of mine who sand and danced as a young lad on the friday night Charlie's Follies talent quests. Good mamories of wonderful entertainers. David ..Good to say hello again and I wish you the very, very best of everything in whatever you do. I bet there's some right good memories out there just waiting to be told .. and here we are just waiting to listen. Marjorie in New Zealand