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11 stories about Women's lives
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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 ...
Fishing in a male dominated world - Margaret Owen
Semi-retired Margaret Owen, née Gregory, moved to Morecambe Bay in 1957 from Manchester aged five. In 1981 she and her husband, ...
Fishing with a haaf-net - Margaret Owen
Fishing with seals - Margaret Owen
Growing up at Sunderland Point - Dorothy Calverley
Growing up at Sunderland Point - Iris Birks
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 ...
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 ...
Nearly drowned - Margaret Owen
The Sound of Horses in the Night
The sound of horses’ hooves in the night, clip clopping up the hill towards the Sands is one evocative memory ...
Wartime Memories of Arnside
Gillian Asplin was born Gillian Davy in 1939 in Grange-over-Sands, but the family soon moved to Arnside as her father ...
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Oral history interview with Baxters of Morecambe staff
Oral history interview with Dorothy Calverley of Sunderland Point
Oral history interview with Eileen Bainbridge, worked at fish factory in Flookurgh and picked for fishermen in Flookburgh
Oral history interview with Eileen Baxter and Helen Graham talking about the Morecambe Trawlers
Oral history interview with Evelyn Archer (nee Moreland), founder member of the Winter Gardens Trust and was pivotal in saving the Winter Gardens Theatre
Oral history interview with Gillian Asplin. Wartime memories of Arnside.
Oral history interview with Ginny Marshall, a lifeguard in Morecambe Super Swimming Stadium
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35 media clips about Women's lives
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Aqua Lovlies
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Oral history interview with Baxters of Morecambe staff
Oral history interview with Dorothy Calverley of Sunderland Point
Oral history interview with Eileen Bainbridge, worked at fish factory in Flookurgh and picked for fishermen in Flookburgh
Oral history interview with Eileen Baxter and Helen Graham talking about the Morecambe Trawlers
Oral history interview with Evelyn Archer (nee Moreland), founder member of the Winter Gardens Trust and was pivotal in saving the Winter Gardens Theatre
Oral history interview with Gillian Asplin. Wartime memories of Arnside.
Oral history interview with Ginny Marshall, a lifeguard in Morecambe Super Swimming Stadium
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