Our latest project will be materialising on Saturday 1st April 2023. Longing for Longleat is another free digital publication, following in the footsteps of our two Blackpool books, this time looking at the iconic Doctor Who exhibition in Longleat, Wiltshire. This time, the special focus is the show’s 20th anniversary year, and the infamous ‘Celebration’Continue reading “Longing for Longleat”
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Get Up Close on 29th April
Up Close, the new ebook project from our co-conspirator Alex Storer will be available for free download from this site on Friday 29th April. Following the success of Blackpool Remembered and Blackpool Revisited, Alex felt the need to keep writing and reminiscing, and to expand on some of the things covered in his own earlierContinue reading “Get Up Close on 29th April”
Coming soon: Up Close
Our partner in nostalgia, Alex Storer has been busy working on a new project. Delving back into the worlds of Doctor Who, Up Close will be another free digital publication exploring the various aspects of fandom. Up Close further explores some of the items featured in Alex’s 2011 book, Who, Where & When, and is packed withContinue reading “Coming soon: Up Close”
Blackpool Revisited – out today!
Blackpool Revisited is now available to download – completely for free. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have loved writing and compiling it. Leave us a comment here or on Twitter. Enjoy your trip back to Blackpool. Who said time travel wasn’t possible?!
Two days to go!
Months of writing, researching, interviewing, discussing, brainstorming and absolute enjoyment come to a close as it is now just a matter of hours before we unleash the beast that is Blackpool Revisited to the world…
Counting down to Blackpool Revisited
We are counting down the days until the release of Blackpool Revisited. The book is now over 600(!) pages long and delves into the deepest, darkest depths of Doctor Who’s association with Blackpool and many other related areas. Here is a taste of what to expect. We are also delighted to announce the book now features an exclusiveContinue reading “Counting down to Blackpool Revisited”
Blackpool Revisited
We are pleased to reveal the name and cover of our follow-up publication, Blackpool Revisited, which will be released in 2021. Work is now well under way, writing, researching and collating content and contributors. We look forward to further memories about the original Blackpool exhibition, but this time, we’ll also be taking a detailed lookContinue reading “Blackpool Revisited”
Blackpool Remembered, revised and updated.
Following additional information and corrections from our lovely readers, Blackpool Remembered has been revised and updated. Various typos or grammatical errors have been fixed, but the main update concerns the year-by-year exhibition floor plans. This part of the book was always going to be a work in progress, but with the help of Philip BrennanContinue reading “Blackpool Remembered, revised and updated.”
Type•40 Podcast now online!
Blackpool Remembered editor John Collier and illustrator/right-hand-man Alex Storer recently caught up with the excellent Type•40 podcast to talk all things Blackpool. The end result is over an hour’s worth of exhibition nostalgia and indulgence, as we go behind the scenes of this epic project. https://fpnet.podbean.com/e/type-40-a-doctor-who-podcast-episode-63-blackpool-remembered-with-john-collier-alex-storer/
Website goes live!
Welcome to our website! With only a week to go until Blackpool Remembered is available for download, we thought it was a good time to get the site online – do check back for more content, but in the meantime, why not head over to the Sights & Sounds page, where there are a fewContinue reading “Website goes live!”