KNOCK-OUT performances from Jonathon Morris and Bobby Knutt heading an all-star cast keep the action romping along at a cracking pace in this cheery portrayal of a Blackpool landlady and her lodgers.

Unless you admit to having reached a certain age, you won't remember the halcyon days when trains were cheap and efficient and transported everybody to the seaside to a variety of 'digs.'

Set in a Blackpool boarding house in the Fifties, tyranness Mrs Austin (Christine Ellerbeck) rules her house and guests with a rod of iron, displays prohibitive notices and dishes up bread and butter pudding daily - in fact the archetypal landlady who became the butt of music hall jokes.

Jonathon Morris makes a welcome return to the Grand, this time in a hilarious role as naive newlywed Mr Pepper, and the inimitable Bobby Knutt is Wilf Pearson 'from 'Uddersfield' who gets all the best one-liners about wives and mothers-in-law - "Once you get married there's no time for comedy!"- and has to cope with daughter Sally (Chloe Newsome - Vicki in Coronation Street) who runs off with a shady pier performer.

Beside the Seaside, at Blackpool Grand Theatre runs until Saturday. Contact 01253 290190 for tickets.