Cute youngster is Blackpool Tower mad...he LOVES the lift for a very special reason

Blackpool Gazette

Meet Charlie Barratt - the Blackpool youngster who LOVES the lift in the tower for a VERY special reason.  The talented kid was heard reciting the speech which used to be played to customers in the Blackpool Tower lift - and the manager was SO impressed that he invited young Charlie to do a professional voiceover recording - making him the official voice of the Tower lift!  Two years later, he is still Tower-mad and says he can't wait until he is old enough to work in his favourite structure.  Watch the full episode of Unconventional Brits on Shots! TV

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00:00It first started when it was my first time in the Blackpool Tower

00:05and I heard the people talking in the lift at the tower

00:10before they had the actual audio recording.

00:13I recited the speech when they did it

00:17and then that's how I got into the Blackpool Tower.

00:22I originally recorded and recited the speech

00:26and then we sent it to my senko at my old school

00:32and she sent it to a friend of hers

00:37called Kenny Mew who used to be the manager at the Blackpool Tower

00:41but he doesn't work there anymore

00:43and then he said, oh wow, that's really fluent

00:47and you have no script or anything

00:50so that's how I got the lift speech at the Blackpool Tower.

00:55Did you get to go in a professional recording studio?

01:00Yes, so it's down the road

01:02and it was in the middle of Blackpool Town Centre

01:06but you go into Blackpool

01:08and it's called Coastal Radio Content Curators

01:12and Ross, who works at the tower,

01:17went into Coastal Radio and recorded it with me.

01:22So I memorise speech when I'm on the way up

01:25and then I try and see if I can memorise it

01:27and then I record it

01:29and then I get the music and then I can edit it all together.

01:34And you do all the editing as well?

01:37Yes, so I don't necessarily put all of the voice bits in together

01:41because I've memorised it and I'm fluent with it

01:45so all I need to do is edit with it, get the music and drag it in

01:51so I can play it as the music.

01:54Looking at this tower next to you, how did this come to be in your house?

02:00So originally it was a man called Gerry

02:06so he built this tower all out of lollipop sticks

02:11as you can see it's all wooden, all lollipop sticks at the top there.

02:15He saw the voice on the BBC News

02:20and then he got in touch and then he said

02:24I'd like to donate this because he thought that would be a very good gift

02:29and it was for free so he didn't have to pay anything for it.

02:33And how many times have you visited the Blackpool Tower?

02:36I have absolutely no idea, probably loads of times, a thousand times

02:41probably like that because I've been in 2022, 2023, 2024.

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