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  • Michelle Cooper on Morecambe’s Super Swimming Stadium

    02/02/2021
    Hi Michael - how great to hear you story. We love your fact about the female lifeguards being persuaded to...

  • Michelle Cooper on BOOMcast 1 : Rusland Valley & the Corncrake

    02/02/2021
    Hi Rosemary - thanks for listening and I'm glad you enjoyed it. You are right - the corncrake is contrived....

  • Rosemary Webster on BOOMcast 1 : Rusland Valley & the Corncrake

    23/01/2021
    Enjoyed it very much, especially the spoken accounts. Just not too sure about the “November” birdsong - rather contrived, especially...

  • Michael (Pugs) Birchall. on Morecambe’s Super Swimming Stadium

    15/01/2021
    I spent most of my youth in the SSS. My first season ticket was 10 shillings, that got stamped every...

  • Janet on ‘Christmas was an exciting time’ – Jack Manning

    24/12/2020
    Delightful.

  • Lyndon Pritchard on The Morecambe lightship ashore at Battery Point after parting her moorings in a storm 2.

    14/12/2020
    I haven’t found any reference to the lightvessel coming ashore during November 1894, however there are several references to the...

  • Michelle Cooper on Oral history interview David Hodgson. Growing up in Morecambe in 1950s.

    19/11/2020
    Thanks for letting us know Judith - we'll amend. Glad you are enjoying listening :-)

  • Judith Coyle on Oral history interview David Hodgson. Growing up in Morecambe in 1950s.

    11/11/2020
    He's talking about Althams, the butchery business, not Alphans. Very interesting indeed.

  • Kate Schofield on Portrait Janet Raby, Keeper of Plover Scar and Cockersand lighthouses

    09/04/2020
    Could be a crochet tam,I think. I'm looking for images of handknit fishermen's gansies.

  • Chris May on Morecambe’s Super Swimming Stadium

    10/03/2020
    I loved the Super Swimming Stadium and always managed to persuade my mum to buy me a summer season ticket....

  • Michelle Cooper on Morecambe’s Super Swimming Stadium

    29/01/2020
    So wonderful to hear your story. You've painted such a vivid picture. And how amazing to have actually helped out...

  • Howard Reynolds on Morecambe’s Super Swimming Stadium

    16/12/2019
    The summer of '59. It should've gone forever -- so hot that Morecambe was over- crowded, and Bob Battersby's Town...

  • Lyndon Pritchard on The Morecambe lightship ashore at Battery Point after parting her moorings again in a storm

    02/11/2019
    From what I can find. On the freeview sections on the newspaper archive. On the 12th of February 1894 the...

  • Lyndon on The Morecambe lightship ashore at Battery Point after parting her moorings again in a storm

    02/11/2019
    Hi, I have just been looking through the photos I have again https://www.facebook.com/pg/lightvesselsandlightships/photos/?tab=album&album_id=605694173588723 One of the photos I have shows...

  • Michelle Cooper on The Morecambe lightship ashore at Battery Point after parting her moorings again in a storm

    19/09/2019
    Thanks for your question. This information came to us with the photograph. I'd be interested to know if anyone has...

  • Michelle Cooper on Amos Willacy fishing in Morecambe Bay

    19/09/2019
    Brilliant - always good to get extra names and details. Thank you for letting us know. So many people have...

  • Dave Willacy on Amos Willacy fishing in Morecambe Bay

    10/09/2019
    The gentleman in the boat in the foreground is definitely Amos Willacy, the contributors father.

  • Lyndon on The Morecambe lightship ashore at Battery Point after parting her moorings again in a storm

    17/08/2019
    Hi is the date of December 1903 when she came ashore correct.? As at that time the SS Abbot had...

  • Tony Gee on Oral history interview David Hodgson. Growing up in Morecambe in 1950s.

    10/07/2019
    A great account, Dave. Remember when we cycled to Blackpool when we were in our early teens? Happy Days

  • Mike Holdsworth on Summary of interview with Charlie Overett, member of Aqua Loonies diving troupe at Morecambe Super Swimming Stadium

    30/06/2019
    Have known Charlie Overett a number of years. He's Morecambe through and through !! I believe he initiated the web...

  • Mrs Lynn Maguire on Aqua Lovlies

    22/04/2019
    I spent lot's of lovely holidays in Morecambe as a child with my mum and dad and sister i still...

  • Michelle Cooper on Morecambe’s Super Swimming Stadium

    08/04/2019
    Great to hear your memories Roger. So many people have a connection to the Super Swimming Stadium but it is...

  • Michelle Cooper on “Star of Hope” LR 39, on her moorings at Green Street, Morecambe

    08/04/2019
    Hi Douggie Thanks very much for your comments and for correcting us on the registration number. Do you think this...

  • Douggie Sorley on “Star of Hope” LR 39, on her moorings at Green Street, Morecambe

    28/03/2019
    Star of Hope was LR23 and was moored at the back of Central Pier. My girlfriend is the daughter of...
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