Morecambe the LAST stopover after Scotland
I wanted to stop here to help me remember days gone by when we had boozy bus trips from Blackpool here.Sadly Morecambe is a dying holiday town where the hoteliers are struggling to make ends meet.Our host is an ex policeman and the service was great (once again we had a 4 poster bed!!) The hotel was on the promenade with beach views that were fantastic.Across from our room was a gigantic “open” picture frame that provided a little light relief for us Morecambe was a thriving seaside resort in the mid-20th century. While the resort of Blackpool attracted holiday-makers predominantly from the Lancashire mill towns, Morecambe had more visitors from Yorkshire (due to its railway connection) and Scotland. Between 1956 and 1989 it was the home of the Miss Great Britain beauty contest.
Morecambe suffered from decline for a number of years after a series of incidents that affected its tourism and local economy.[4] Two piers were lost: West End Pier was washed away in a storm in 1978 while Central Pier, though struck by fire in 1933, survived until 1992. In 1994, The World of Crinkley Bottom attraction in Happy Mount Park closed only 13 weeks after opening and the ensuing ‘Blobbygate’ scandal led to a legal battle between Lancaster City Council and TV star Noel Edmonds. The closures of Bubbles, Morecambe’s swimming pool, and Frontierland, a fairground, soon followed.
Blogs may be delayed for a while as we are cruising the Norwegian Coast inspecting the Fjords for TWO weeks, SO hopefully my next blogs will be packed with Norwegian pics n facts
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