Just back from 2 nights in Morecambe. I thought with COVID and people staying in UK for holidays that there would be some of the old magic. Unfortunately not. The sunset is still amazing, but having not been in 20 years, I was in shock at how different it was. I actually felt unsafe walking alone in the evening and struggled to find anywhere doing proper breakfasts. The rides were full of screaming drunk teens and Happy Mount Park had little to offer. Maybe i was just wanting to show my own kids the magic I experienced many years ago with my parents. Times have changed for us all I suppose.
@Raving Loony well at least they are free. They are probably Morecambe's biggest and most talked about attraction, the jewel in the crown with the promenade. Tourism does create wages. With a half decent local authority Morecambe would be thriving but the Council could not organise a p*** up in a brewery
I AGREE JAMIE 100%,ESPECIALLY FROM ST PETER' CHURCH IN HEYSHAM VILLAGE!! I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO LIVE THERE FOR 7 YEARS AND LEFT IN 2007.WASN'T IN GOOD NICK THEN UNFORTUNATEY,AND MY DEAR FRIEND JANET WAS ATTACKED NEAR THE BATTERY BY 2 TEENAGE GIRLS SHORTLY AFTER I LEFT. SHE WAS X ARMY,AND WAS DISABLED DURING THE ATTACK,THEN BEGAN DRINKING WHEN SHE RETURNED HOME TO HER MUM IN DONCASTER. OBVIOUSLY SHE MISSED WALKING HER TWO DOGS ON THE BEACH,AND UNFORTUNATELY EVENTUALLY DIED DUE TO ALCOHOLISM. I GUESS THAT IS THE WAY THE WORLD IS THESE DAYS,NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE!
@@kristinejames9812 thanks so much for your lovely message and your honesty about your friend who died. I am so sorry to hear that. A friend of mine went through rehab in Lancaster and then he moved to morecambe with a sea view flat and he is a good artist and he was enjoying his new found sobriety and being clean from drugs. However after trying to make new friends he is now left wondering if he has made the right decision because he is surrounded by people who are involved in drugs and drinking and it's beginning to become a problem.. Such a shame
Jamie...I hope your friend sticks with it,but I know what you mean though,because Morecambe doesn't deserve the reputation that it has! I lived in basement flat 14 years ago on Sefton Road,by the Battery and was surrounded by drug addicts and alcoholics. I eventually moved back near my mum in Oldham after having bricks put through my windows 3 times.I even had a CCTV camera put up,and a guy was arrested and then released. But I still have really good friends living there,who I still visit.I met these friends whilst walking my dog on the beach,so maybe that could be the answer for your friend,if he is allowed a pet? I know that some things have changed,ie: the new cafe near the battery,the Midland restored etc,it's a shame the council can't get rid of all the scum who live there!!! I still miss my walks down to heysham village,and Carnforth I also did the cross bay walk once from hest bank to floukborough in the lake district (for charity).That was amazing and I would recommend anyone to try it.Thats another suggestion.Also the platform used to have weekly tea dances,where you can just go and watch and meet people if you wish.Although that may not be your friends cup of tea..Sorry for rambling on.I do plan on moving back there one day,though because I really do miss the place.
@@kristinejames9812 thanks kristine and so nice of you to suggest that for my friend. He wants to start an art project and a group for people who are involved in recovery from drugs and alcohol but he said he had make sure he was strong enough first and he really loves the place. I have arranged to go to see him when we are off lock down hopefully and we are going to go over to Leighton moss at Silverdale and Arnside and then he said he would show me around the town and Heysham where you mentioned. It's got such a nice old character and some lovely victorian houses and the place could be a real focal point so I think it needs people like my friend to try and bring some new life into the town. Why do people want to spoil it.
Morecambe in it's hey day was a truly wonderful place to visit. All the piers (3), but sadly now gone along with both fair grounds. I spent many a hot day on the sea front, splashing about in the pools and literally 1000s of people laying the grass or walking up and down the promenade. Truly magical times...
It amazes me and saddens me how lovely and quaint places looked in the past, .....the decline in Britain is frightening , once beautiful coastal towns and tourist hotspots have become tired and rundown and have lost alot of their seaside magic and appeal that made them fun and great to visit..........it's so sad to see
Visited Morecambe almost every year as a kid with my parents. It was a great place, especially when you had the piers, heysham village and Happy Mount Park there too! Heartbreaking watching this vid
We used to love going to Morecambe to see their illuminations as girls! It is such a shame that it has been neglected for so many years now. Its a shadow of its former self. Quite dull & drab in comparison. I still love it & we have happy family memories & return regularly. Beautiful views across the bay!! ❤
What a beautiful video. Aaaah Morecambe! 1970's, bingo at slaters on Queen St. Morecambe vs South sheilds in the FA cup at christie park with my dad and uncle Ken. The Piers. HAPPY PEOPLE. HAPPY TIMES! It will come back! Home is where the heart is, and my home is Morecambe. Thanks so much for the video.
I worked at Pontins holiday camp 85/6/7 seasons some of the best memories I have . lived in morecambe between seasons still in contact with some of the people I worked with 36 year’s ago 🙏❤️
Happy Mount Park was also missing from your montage. I have very happy memories of the paddling pool, the trampolines and the little train that took you around the circumference. Summers were always hot and sunny and the ice cream cones never tasted so good. Happy times. Sad to hear about the knifings, homelessness and grime that the resort descended into. Keeping fingers crossed that the Eden Project will inject some self pride back into the community.
Empire night club, in 1993 in the summer and up to winter- December. Had some great night's, also great memories. When the rave scene, was at it's best! Great time's they were, an never forgotten.
Only twenty years ago they had that big open swimming pool area and the Polo tower in Frontier Land was working as was the roller coaster. but if I remember rightly the Midland hotel was is a state then, now the hotel is done up & everything else is but a memory, such a Shame!, it is amazing how places change in such a short time. Never mind the time past since some of these old pics. When you walk though the west end of Morcambe now and see what once were grand buildings, that are now in a state of disrepair & delapidation, it's so disheartening. It not only Morcambe it's a symptom of all over the noth of the UK and it's awful to see. Places dying like this.
Being a Morecamber, looks like in the next few years theyre's going to be a massive change to the town commercially which will hopefully put us back on the map?
It needs attractions Folk arent going to visit just to admire the view . I was born there , lived on West End Rd , almost at the junction to Acre moss lane , could see the Big Dipper from front bedroom. Late 60's through seventies. Visited a few years ago , the front is barely recognisable. Happy mount park used to be immaculate, it's a shadow of its former self, everything looked grubby to how I remember it That beautiful railway station at the front is now a cafe , unbelievable. My Dad worked at the town hall and always said when the council was taken over by Lancaster , Morecambe was neglected. The problem for Morecambe is it isn't near any other big towns or isnt on a through route to or from anywhere. We live near Southport which attracts visitors from all over the North west, same as Blackpool , whereas Morecambe is more of an outpost .
shot no.7 phonebox was out of action when i needed it the most. 1:58 was glad when they re opened the hotel and spruced it up a bit i remember my childhood outings with grandparents down to morecambe being great - then moved to lancaster my mid 20's and it all went downhill really. i show up now and again for a day as one of my motovlogs show
Heard an interesting account from an elderly gentleman at the foodbank yesterday. In the early 70s when Morecambe & Heysham Borough Council was amalgamated and became Lancaster City Council it had just bought a fleet of lorries. These apparently were bought by Freemason Fred Edmundson without any tendering process and he started his haulage business. In 1991 Edmundson purchased the Winter Gardens which was listed as a grade 2 * listed building in the 70s. He removed all the valuable Waring & Gillow joinery such as the hand carved cherubs without listed building consent and then sold it to Barnfield Construction.
Fred Edmondson was a crook.Anyone from Morecambe will tell you that.The whole family are mercenaries and pillagers of a once beautiful resort.Same has to be said for Heysham!
@@Briangibson7825 listen at 6 mins 30 secs. Morecambe residents need to wake up and start looking out for the town. czcams.com/video/KoHDz5iAhqE/video.html
IM SICK OF PEOPLE WHO PUT MORCAMBE DOWN I WENT THERE EVERY WEEKEND NEARLY TO FRONTIER LAND AND NOW ITS ALL GONE IT MAKES ME SICK THEY DESTROYED IT AND NOW THERE IS JUST EMPTY LAND WHEN IT HAD BEEN THERE FOR OVER 100 YEARS WHAT THE F HAPPENED :(
I remember a wooden pirate ship beside the promenade and saw it in the background at 2.54 in this great video. Also, there were sand trains - tractors made to look like steam engines pulling open trailers with bench seats for paying passengers. It was fun to ride on them through water when the tide was coming in. In the 1970s there was the Radio 1 Roadshow and the Milk Festival near the Midland Hotel. Poor old Morecambe went downhill in the next decades.
Sad that a lot of the buildings that had class and grace have either not been kept or replaced with soulless monstrosities. That's what happens when you lose civic pride and let clowns plan and approve our towns and cities. Examples, the garage and the Pleasureland. Same in Lancaster.
Funny that what replaces what was there before is never better. The Eden Project Morecambe seems like another white elephant. What good is it for locals.
last time I went to Morecambe was September 1980, the town use to host a annual body building competition on the sea front, keep meaning to go back for a break and rekindle some good memories of the town
How come when i go to European towns and cities they have preserved them much better than in UK .Most our seasidectowns are little more than dumps Torquay being the perfect example
Unfortunately for my project I had to get photos of what it used to be and what it is now, and since there isn't anything there I thought it wouldn't have been visually appealing.. have to agree with you though, I remember going there many times when I was younger, real shame it closed down :(
i grew up in morecambe and moved away last year the town is a shadow off what it once was :( ...the only attraction they have no is a statue of a dude kids havent heard off such a shame as morecambe is a beutifull place just been let down by lancaster council
aah but when they hit 18 and go to weatherspoons (Eric Bartholomew) they might read that it is eric morecambe ---- but then drink so much they forget about a legend in comedy history and watch borat
Just back from 2 nights in Morecambe. I thought with COVID and people staying in UK for holidays that there would be some of the old magic. Unfortunately not. The sunset is still amazing, but having not been in 20 years, I was in shock at how different it was. I actually felt unsafe walking alone in the evening and struggled to find anywhere doing proper breakfasts. The rides were full of screaming drunk teens and Happy Mount Park had little to offer. Maybe i was just wanting to show my own kids the magic I experienced many years ago with my parents. Times have changed for us all I suppose.
Hey Morecambe may not be the place that it used to be anymore but it's got the best sunsets ever! The best!
@Raving Loony well at least they are free. They are probably Morecambe's biggest and most talked about attraction, the jewel in the crown with the promenade. Tourism does create wages. With a half decent local authority Morecambe would be thriving but the Council could not organise a p*** up in a brewery
I AGREE JAMIE 100%,ESPECIALLY FROM ST PETER' CHURCH IN HEYSHAM VILLAGE!! I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO LIVE THERE FOR 7 YEARS AND LEFT IN 2007.WASN'T IN GOOD NICK THEN UNFORTUNATEY,AND MY DEAR FRIEND JANET WAS ATTACKED NEAR THE BATTERY BY 2 TEENAGE GIRLS SHORTLY AFTER I LEFT. SHE WAS X ARMY,AND WAS DISABLED DURING THE ATTACK,THEN BEGAN DRINKING WHEN SHE RETURNED HOME TO HER MUM IN DONCASTER. OBVIOUSLY SHE MISSED WALKING HER TWO DOGS ON THE BEACH,AND UNFORTUNATELY EVENTUALLY DIED DUE TO ALCOHOLISM. I GUESS THAT IS THE WAY THE WORLD IS THESE DAYS,NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE!
@@kristinejames9812 thanks so much for your lovely message and your honesty about your friend who died. I am so sorry to hear that. A friend of mine went through rehab in Lancaster and then he moved to morecambe with a sea view flat and he is a good artist and he was enjoying his new found sobriety and being clean from drugs. However after trying to make new friends he is now left wondering if he has made the right decision because he is surrounded by people who are involved in drugs and drinking and it's beginning to become a problem.. Such a shame
Jamie...I hope your friend sticks with it,but I know what you mean though,because Morecambe doesn't deserve the reputation that it has! I lived in basement flat 14 years ago on Sefton Road,by the Battery and was surrounded by drug addicts and alcoholics. I eventually moved back near my mum in Oldham after having bricks put through my windows 3 times.I even had a CCTV camera put up,and a guy was arrested and then released. But I still have really good friends living there,who I still visit.I met these friends whilst walking my dog on the beach,so maybe that could be the answer for your friend,if he is allowed a pet? I know that some things have changed,ie: the new cafe near the battery,the Midland restored etc,it's a shame the council can't get rid of all the scum who live there!!! I still miss my walks down to heysham village,and Carnforth
I also did the cross bay walk once from hest bank to floukborough in the lake district (for charity).That was amazing and I would recommend anyone to try it.Thats another suggestion.Also the platform used to have weekly tea dances,where you can just go and watch and meet people if you wish.Although that may not be your friends cup of tea..Sorry for rambling on.I do plan on moving back there one day,though because I really do miss the place.
@@kristinejames9812 thanks kristine and so nice of you to suggest that for my friend. He wants to start an art project and a group for people who are involved in recovery from drugs and alcohol but he said he had make sure he was strong enough first and he really loves the place. I have arranged to go to see him when we are off lock down hopefully and we are going to go over to Leighton moss at Silverdale and Arnside and then he said he would show me around the town and Heysham where you mentioned. It's got such a nice old character and some lovely victorian houses and the place could be a real focal point so I think it needs people like my friend to try and bring some new life into the town. Why do people want to spoil it.
I've been to Morecambe since 1962 .I've seen the best times . Today it's got nothing it saddens me to see it like this.Thanks to Lancaster council
I go to Morecambe from Manchester regually, i love it, so quiet and peaceful with great sunsets and plenty of fresh air.
Morecambe in it's hey day was a truly wonderful place to visit. All the piers (3), but sadly now gone along with both fair grounds. I spent many a hot day on the sea front, splashing about in the pools and literally 1000s of people laying the grass or walking up and down the promenade. Truly magical times...
When did the piers go
It amazes me and saddens me how lovely and quaint places looked in the past, .....the decline in Britain is frightening , once beautiful coastal towns and tourist hotspots have become tired and rundown and have lost alot of their seaside magic and appeal that made them fun and great to visit..........it's so sad to see
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Visited Morecambe almost every year as a kid with my parents. It was a great place, especially when you had the piers, heysham village and Happy Mount Park there too! Heartbreaking watching this vid
We used to love going to Morecambe to see their illuminations as girls! It is such a shame that it has been neglected for so many years now. Its a shadow of its former self. Quite dull & drab in comparison. I still love it & we have happy family memories & return regularly. Beautiful views across the bay!! ❤
What a beautiful video. Aaaah Morecambe! 1970's, bingo at slaters on Queen St. Morecambe vs South sheilds in the FA cup at christie park with my dad and uncle Ken. The Piers. HAPPY PEOPLE. HAPPY TIMES! It will come back! Home is where the heart is, and my home is Morecambe. Thanks so much for the video.
This is just sad to see how much morecambe has lost 😭
I worked at Pontins holiday camp 85/6/7 seasons some of the best memories I have . lived in morecambe between seasons still in contact with some of the people I worked with 36 year’s ago 🙏❤️
We're abouts you live now mate
This video really drives home how utterly shit the modern world is.
We had a lovely holiday in Morecambe, we took the bikes and cycled to Heysham and Lancaster, it was so peaceful.
i lived in Morecambe as an international student at Lancaster Univ in the mid 80s. this video brought back sweet memories, thank you.
This is so upsetting I'm only 13 and I live in Morecambe, and it is so shit now compared to then 😟 and RIP Leon Hoyle
fire Leon Hoyle was there when we needed him the most R.I.P
It was always shit.
Happy Mount Park was also missing from your montage. I have very happy memories of the paddling pool, the trampolines and the little train that took you around the circumference. Summers were always hot and sunny and the ice cream cones never tasted so good. Happy times. Sad to hear about the knifings, homelessness and grime that the resort descended into. Keeping fingers crossed that the Eden Project will inject some self pride back into the community.
Why is Lancaster on this Video of Morecambe?
I purchased my first digital radio from Woolworths morcambe wonderful memories greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 we will visit again
Hope morecambe looks better after the Eden project 👀👍
Empire night club, in 1993 in the summer and up to winter- December. Had some great night's, also great memories. When the rave scene, was at it's best! Great time's they were, an never forgotten.
the Odeon was stunning, thanks mate, good memories.
A sign of times past; Woolworths!
only to be replaced by B and M
Only twenty years ago they had that big open swimming pool area and the Polo tower in Frontier Land was working as was the roller coaster. but if I remember rightly the Midland hotel was is a state then, now the hotel is done up & everything else is but a memory, such a Shame!, it is amazing how places change in such a short time. Never mind the time past since some of these old pics. When you walk though the west end of Morcambe now and see what once were grand buildings, that are now in a state of disrepair & delapidation, it's so disheartening. It not only Morcambe it's a symptom of all over the noth of the UK and it's awful to see. Places dying like this.
Being a Morecamber, looks like in the next few years theyre's going to be a massive change to the town commercially which will hopefully put us back on the map?
Yep, Eden Centre North will do just that!
It needs attractions
Folk arent going to visit just to admire the view .
I was born there , lived on West End Rd , almost at the junction to Acre moss lane , could see the Big Dipper from front bedroom. Late 60's through seventies.
Visited a few years ago , the front is barely recognisable.
Happy mount park used to be immaculate, it's a shadow of its former self, everything looked grubby to how I remember it
That beautiful railway station at the front is now a cafe , unbelievable.
My Dad worked at the town hall and always said when the council was taken over by Lancaster , Morecambe was neglected.
The problem for Morecambe is it isn't near any other big towns or isnt on a through route to or from anywhere.
We live near Southport which attracts visitors from all over the North west, same as Blackpool , whereas Morecambe is more of an outpost .
@@jefflamp5367 totally agree with your comments
I played for dancing at the Winter Gardens from about 57 to 62 great days.
I used to work on the ferries at Heysham and spent a lot of happy days in Morcambe in 1958. It looks a bit sad now looking at these. Australia.
Some of the photos from this are actually Lancaster!
shot no.7 phonebox was out of action when i needed it the most. 1:58
was glad when they re opened the hotel and spruced it up a bit
i remember my childhood outings with grandparents down to morecambe being great - then moved to lancaster my mid 20's and it all went downhill really. i show up now and again for a day as one of my motovlogs show
The Lancaster council ripped us of everything we owned. Morecambe used to be so stunning.
Heard an interesting account from an elderly gentleman at the foodbank yesterday. In the early 70s when Morecambe & Heysham Borough Council was amalgamated and became Lancaster City Council it had just bought a fleet of lorries. These apparently were bought by Freemason Fred Edmundson without any tendering process and he started his haulage business. In 1991 Edmundson purchased the Winter Gardens which was listed as a grade 2 * listed building in the 70s. He removed all the valuable Waring & Gillow joinery such as the hand carved cherubs without listed building consent and then sold it to Barnfield Construction.
Absolutely CORRECT!!!!
Fred Edmondson was a crook.Anyone from Morecambe will tell you that.The whole family are mercenaries and pillagers of a once beautiful resort.Same has to be said for Heysham!
@@Briangibson7825 listen at 6 mins 30 secs. Morecambe residents need to wake up and start looking out for the town. czcams.com/video/KoHDz5iAhqE/video.html
@@Briangibson7825 the crooks are meeting again tomorrow night theyve changed their rules so Barbara Barber cant speak again
IM SICK OF PEOPLE WHO PUT MORCAMBE DOWN I WENT THERE EVERY WEEKEND NEARLY TO FRONTIER LAND AND NOW ITS ALL GONE IT MAKES ME SICK THEY DESTROYED IT AND NOW THERE IS JUST EMPTY LAND WHEN IT HAD BEEN THERE FOR OVER 100 YEARS
WHAT THE F HAPPENED :(
I remember a wooden pirate ship beside the promenade and saw it in the background at 2.54 in this great video. Also, there were sand trains - tractors made to look like steam engines pulling open trailers with bench seats for paying passengers. It was fun to ride on them through water when the tide was coming in. In the 1970s there was the Radio 1 Roadshow and the Milk Festival near the Midland Hotel. Poor old Morecambe went downhill in the next decades.
breaks my heart, though...:-(
Sad that a lot of the buildings that had class and grace have either not been kept or replaced with soulless monstrosities. That's what happens when you lose civic pride and let clowns plan and approve our towns and cities. Examples, the garage and the Pleasureland. Same in Lancaster.
Thank you for the few from the past to today of Morecambe
This was not filmed exclusively in Morecambe, but also nearby Lancaster. The two most famous residents are Thora Hird, and of course Eric Morecambe.
And in Lancaster John Waite, who ain't missing it at all since he's been gone away, he ain't missing it!
John Waite now lives in Scotforth, Lancaster.The rover did return.
Great memories of the 60s, lido, Galleon and miniature train
nicely put together man. thanks
great video / photos. Poor old Morecambe somehow has lost it's shine. I don't think the council have helped things.
Part of life, i'm 62 now, we all must pass.
Great video so many memories here I've live here all my life morecambe I love it here ❤
Literally just started crying to this video shows how much morecambe has improved over the years what a video 📹
The world has changed so fast for me...
Scary
And me
@@Truerealism747 pray for peace and unity, brother
@@abumulla4606yes it need to come soon🎉
Half of these are of Lancaster.
what a nice vid thank u it was good to see
Nice work, subscribed
Funny that what replaces what was there before is never better. The Eden Project Morecambe seems like another white elephant. What good is it for locals.
last time I went to Morecambe was September 1980, the town use to host a annual body building competition on the sea front, keep meaning to go back for a break and rekindle some good memories of the town
I’ve never even heard of this until today but man this is sad
We've never been to morcombe but nice pictures of how it was we used to go to Rhyl and it's the same nowadays.
This is interesting of how Morecambe has change through the years btw county garage is on Croft street and I live the I wonder what that looked like!
Great watch.
a lot of these scenes are Lancaster
Station garage was opposite Euston road railway station at the bottom of queen street not Clark Street as shown in the video.
someone must have run out of pictures of Morecambe from 3:40 it's the town of Lancaster
By 'eck, it's grim in Morecambe...
Shame about the Pier, Heads up though guys. .. 5 million tourists came this year in the summer holiday get yourself here.
How come when i go to European towns and cities they have preserved them much better than in UK .Most our seasidectowns are little more than dumps Torquay being the perfect example
I worked at the Morecombe branch of Tesco's back in the early 70's as a butcher.
And in all those years you couldn't spell Morecambe? 😉😂😂
A lot of these are from lancaster....please research properley!
nice video
Looks lot better before now they look eye saw
i was born there
you forgot to frontierand :( morecambes greatest attraction
Unfortunately for my project I had to get photos of what it used to be and what it is now, and since there isn't anything there I thought it wouldn't have been visually appealing.. have to agree with you though, I remember going there many times when I was younger, real shame it closed down :(
i grew up in morecambe and moved away last year the town is a shadow off what it once was :( ...the only attraction they have no is a statue of a dude kids havent heard off such a shame as morecambe is a beutifull place just been let down by lancaster council
oh an very well put together video :)
+danny butler Thanks :)
aah but when they hit 18 and go to weatherspoons (Eric Bartholomew) they might read that it is eric morecambe ---- but then drink so much they forget about a legend in comedy history and watch borat
You would assume something gets better with time.
A lot of lancaster in this
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Great pictures but the transitions do my head in. :/
Look at just how rancid places look now!
Mr blobby land
Is this the most boring video ever made? Absolute torture.
Let's hope The Eden Project never get's built.It will spoil and ruin what Morecambe has left.
NSU car dealer!