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"Mr. Seaweed" - Ernie Nicholson
Born into a family of butchers
Ninety-one-year-old Richard ‘Rex’ Lancaster had an idyllic childhood in Grange. In shorts and vest his six-to-eight-week summer holidays were spent ...
Catching Tales
Shrimpers and cockle pickers stretching along Morecambe Bay’s coastline are proud to use family fishing techniques that go back generations. On ...
Cross bay swim
Ernie Nicholson: Netmaker and Fisherman
Did you know that from the 1920s up to the 1970s Morecambe was home to a thriving fishing factory? It ...
Gone Fishin'
Gone Fishin’ was commissioned by Morecambe Bay Partnership from AbouTime Dance Company in 2018 as part of the ‘Catching Tales’ ...
Have you heard the cockles sing?
Janet tells how the tragedy of the Chinese cocklers in 2004 led to changes in the laws and the effect ...
Keith Willacy Photographic Collection
Lovelies vs Loonies
Lovelies Before the Miss Great Britain competition rounds, 12 ‘Aqua-Lovelies’ would adorn the poolside of Morecambe’s Super Swimming Stadium and put on ...
Morecambe cockling disaster - 'on our knees'
Morecambe's Super Swimming Stadium
Ginny Marshall remembers the 1960s when thousands of tourists and locals used to flock to the beaches of Morecambe to ...
Riddling for shrimps - David Bates
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"Girl Helen" LR 123, the first new boat built for Morecambe since 1935
"Linda" LR 24, was built by Crossfields of Arnside
"Linda" on the inside moorings to the north of Central Pier, Morecambe
"Linda" sailing down the Ring Hole
"Linda", on inside moorings for a paint up
"Speedwell" LR 29, hauling her fish trawl in Ulverston Channel
"Star of Hope" LR 39, on her moorings at Green Street, Morecambe
A Bay pleasure boat with five aboard among the moorings at Morecambe
A certificate of service issued by the RNLI to Mark Baxter
A chart showing the positions of the mussel beds or skears at Morecambe
A citation enrolling Samuel Baxter as Member of the British Empire, issued by the Court of St. James, London.
A civic party meeting with Morecambe fishermen
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241 media clips about Morecambe
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"Girl Helen" LR 123, the first new boat built for Morecambe since 1935
"Linda" LR 24, was built by Crossfields of Arnside
"Linda" on the inside moorings to the north of Central Pier, Morecambe
"Linda" sailing down the Ring Hole
"Linda", on inside moorings for a paint up
"Speedwell" LR 29, hauling her fish trawl in Ulverston Channel
"Star of Hope" LR 39, on her moorings at Green Street, Morecambe
A Bay pleasure boat with five aboard among the moorings at Morecambe
A certificate of service issued by the RNLI to Mark Baxter
A chart showing the positions of the mussel beds or skears at Morecambe
A citation enrolling Samuel Baxter as Member of the British Empire, issued by the Court of St. James, London.
A civic party meeting with Morecambe fishermen
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241 documents about Morecambe
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"Girl Helen" LR 123, the first new boat built for Morecambe since 1935
"Linda" LR 24, was built by Crossfields of Arnside
"Linda" on the inside moorings to the north of Central Pier, Morecambe
"Linda" sailing down the Ring Hole
"Linda", on inside moorings for a paint up
"Speedwell" LR 29, hauling her fish trawl in Ulverston Channel
"Star of Hope" LR 39, on her moorings at Green Street, Morecambe
A Bay pleasure boat with five aboard among the moorings at Morecambe
A certificate of service issued by the RNLI to Mark Baxter
A chart showing the positions of the mussel beds or skears at Morecambe
A citation enrolling Samuel Baxter as Member of the British Empire, issued by the Court of St. James, London.
A civic party meeting with Morecambe fishermen
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