Blackpool Digital Stories 'The Ups and Downs of the Gomersalls' by Steve Gomersall from feet arab Watch Video
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Description: Blackpool Museum Project shares local resident, Steve Gomersall's digital story in which he talks about his family history and their connection to the town. nnThe Ups and Down of the Gomersalls nn'I will never know why, but sometime after 1871 my great Grandfather Tom Howard Gomersall left his home in Barnsley for Blackpool. nnHe was like his younger brother Malcom a white smith, this trade no longer exists but at the time white smiths worked in cold, non-ferrous metals such as tin, copper, bras