Qualla: Morecambe https://qualla.com/morecambe en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Morecambe https://qualla.com/morecambe Morecambe: Introduction https://qualla.com/morecambe/ Eric Bartholomew was born here in 1926. When he and his comedy partner Ernie Wise needed a stage name, he reached for the name of the town outside his window. For decades after that, Eric Morecambe was the most famous thing about Morecambe, and the town carried his stage name back to him as a gift. There is a statue of him on the seafront now, frogs in hand, frozen in the dance step at the end of Bring Me Sunshine — the gag that defined a generation of British comedy. The statue gets visited like a saint's relic, and on most days someone is taking a photo with one arm around bronze Eric's shoulder.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/g/morecambe-wp/gctg-morecambe-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Morecambe: Bradford-on-Sea https://qualla.com/morecambe/ The bay had been called Morecambe long before the town was. John Whitaker used the word "æstury of Moricambe" in his 1771 History of Manchester, and four years later Antiquities of Furness called it "the Bay of Morecambe." The town's name was only made official in 1889, gathering...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/g/morecambe-wp/gctg-morecambe-bradford-on-sea.mp3 0:06 2 full Morecambe: Decline, Disaster, and Mr Blobby https://qualla.com/morecambe/ The slide into decline came faster than the boom had. Central Pier was damaged by fire in 1933 and finally removed in 1992. West End Pier was partly washed away in a November 1977 storm and demolished the following year. The largest Pontins resort in the country closed in 1993. T...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/g/morecambe-wp/gctg-morecambe-decline-disaster-and-mr-blobby.mp3 0:06 3 full Morecambe: The Midland and the Mussels https://qualla.com/morecambe/ What is happening now is something between a recovery and a refusal to give up. The Midland Hotel — a streamlined 1933 art deco landmark on the seafront with interior pieces by sculptor Eric Gill — underwent an £11 million restoration led by Manchester developer Urban Splash and ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/t/g/morecambe-wp/gctg-morecambe-the-midland-and-the-mussels.mp3 0:06 4 full Morecambe: Who Came From Here https://qualla.com/morecambe/ Morecambe's roll call is unusually wide. Eric Morecambe himself, of course, the comedian who took the town's name. Dame Thora Hird (1911–2003) was born here and made a career out of warm, sharp character acting; she co-starred in The Entertainer, the 1960 film Laurence Olivier sh...

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