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- 21 photos on Morecambe appear in 3 Frith books - View photos of Morecambe
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morecambe musical festival
From 1952 to 1959, aged 9 to 16 and at Morecambe Grammar School, I played the piano in the solo classes at the Morecambe Musical Festival - a premier event in the calendar of the Winter Gardens. It brought in thousands of people during the week; choirs, brass bands and soloists from Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wales etc. with all their supporters, as well as local talent.
If I won my classes during the week I would appear in the grand finals on the Saturday evening and I still have all the certificates to prove it! Very daunting for a young person in that magnificent theatre and on that enormous stage. Every few years I come back and remember the Winter Gardens ...read more here
Contributed by IAN GERRARD
Lancashire memories
morecambe musical festival
From 1952 to 1959, aged 9 to 16 and at Morecambe Grammar School, I played the piano in the solo classes at the Morecambe Musical Festival - a premier event in the calendar of the Winter Gardens. It brought in thousands of people during the week; choirs, brass bands and soloists from Scotland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wales etc. with all their supporters, as well as local talent.
If I won my classes during the week I would appear in the grand finals on the Saturday evening and I still have all the certificates to prove it! Very daunting for a young person in that magnificent theatre and on that enormous stage. Every few years I come back and remember the Winter Gardens ...read more here
A memory of Morecambe contributed by IAN GERRARD
Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s
My name is Susan Railton (nee Price) and I grew up in Torrisholme in the 1960s and 1970s. It was always a place where everyone knew and cared about each other. I lived on Hyde Road and could see The Square from my bedroom. I remember going to the corner shops where Booths is now. I especially loved Mr Lupton's (I think that was what he was called). In his shop he had a shelf full of lovely sweets in glass jars and he always did a magic trick with the money you gave him. Next to him was the corner grocery shop where you got served with everything you wanted.
I remember the other shop further into the village where ...read more here
A memory of Torrisholme contributed by susan railton
Vacation
Cannot remember to much of this vacation as I was only 4 years old at the time. But as I was growing up Mum used to talk a lot about this holiday and only recently I was looking through some old snap shots and I came across one taken sitting on a wall with my Dad I presume it was the Promanade in Heysham. Mum always wrote on the back of the photo saying the place they were taken.
A memory of Heysham contributed by Brenda Vanderwert
Extracts From Morecambe & Lancashire books
‘The sands’, says the Frith title, but as you can see, central Morecambe
has always had a pebble beach, especially at high tide. The stone jetty
that we can see in the background was the main terminal for ships
to Ireland and the Isle of Man, until Heysham Harbour was cut in
the 1900s. The broad, stone-built jetty included sheds as shelter for
passengers, as well as loading and unloading facilities, and trains could
also back onto the pier, as we see in our photograph. Bathing machines
are still in evidence at the edge of the water in this picture, and
Morecambe was the proud possessor of about twenty of them when our
photograph was taken. Locals always referred to them as ‘vans’.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
Morecambe is much frequented by trippers from the busy towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire, for whose recreation are provided abundant entertainments of distinctly popular order. There are swimming-baths and assembly rooms – of a sort – a People’s Palace, and a few other places of amusement, chiefly conducted on music-hall lines. There is a large pier, a tramway, and a kind of Rosherville Garden with a lake for boating.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Seaside".
The southern part of Morecambe (referred to as the
west end), towards Heysham, soon developed as the
more genteel side of the resort, with smart hotels; it
was thought to be a little superior. The area today is
known as Sandylands. Our horse tram is wending its
way from Upper Heysham back to Morecambe. Today
there is a very popular walk along the promenade
between Morecambe and Heysham.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
In 1896, Morecambe opened a second pier, known as West End Pier,
which is the one we see here in our picture. The building of a lavish
pavilion at the end of this pier motivated the Central Pier to build a
theatre at the end of their pier. The West End Pier was destroyed in a
storm in November 1977; it was declared unsafe, and was demolished
soon after.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".
This is a busy scene. Walking and strolling, and taking in the sea air,
was what the late Victorian holiday-makers demanded. Resorts from
Morecambe down the coast through New Brighton to Llandudno in
Wales provided the wide walk-ways where holiday-makers could stroll
and pass the time of day with family and friends away from the traffic.
Note all the traffic in this picture is horse-drawn.
An extract from from"Lancaster, Morecambe and Heysham Pocket Album".