Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen. John Mahoney
I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays. Charlie Adam
I told the wife, "We'd be better off in Blackpool." Myles Rudge