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