{"id":5752,"date":"2024-11-21T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:31:22","slug":"blackpools-town-crier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/blackpools-town-crier\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool&#8217;s Town Crier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2000, Barry became Blackpool\u2019s official town crier after spending 12 years in\u00a0Birmingham\u00a0and he says he has never looked back. He moved back to Lancashire when he was 21 and spent eight years in Morecambe before moving to Ludlow in Shropshire when his town crier career started.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barry Mcqueen opening Blackpool  Steam Rally 2017\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P5130m-15oQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The image below shows Laura Sinfield, Tracy Dawson (right) wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/les-dawson-loads-of-laughs-blackpool\/\"><strong>Les Dawson<\/strong><\/a>, John Chadwick (left) and Barry McQueen at Birmingham New Street Station after travelling from Blackpool on 30 September 2002 to mark Virgin Trains new regional InterCity rail network for the UK with a re-launch of its CrossCountry train company.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5763\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Virgin-Train-Launch-Event-Map.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"702\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5753\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.wearedeeperblue.co.uk\/history-clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Barry-McQueen-1000.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1030\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2000, Barry became Blackpool\u2019s official town crier after spending 12 years in\u00a0Birmingham\u00a0and he says he has never looked back. He moved back to Lancashire when he was 21 and spent eight years in Morecambe before moving to Ludlow in Shropshire when his town crier career started. The image below shows Laura Sinfield, Tracy Dawson (right) wife of Les Dawson, John Chadwick (left) and Barry McQueen at Birmingham New Street Station after travelling from Blackpool on 30 September 2002 to mark Virgin Trains new regional InterCity rail network for the UK with a re-launch of its CrossCountry train company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[121,177,289],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-288","tag-celebrities","tag-community","tag-289"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blackpool&#039;s Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barry McQueen became Blackpool&#039;s official Town Crier in 2000 after relocating from Birmingham. 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