Morecambe

Morecambe

Morecambe, Morecambe Bay, Marine Drive

What to See
You’ll find accounts of Morecambe’s tourist attractions and additional information on shopping, eating out etc at the Morecambe pages of Visit Lancashire, or Explore Morecambe Bay.

gannets, statues, public art
“Silent seabirds decorate the roundabout in front of the station”

Links to local attractions include:
Art Deco & Art Nouveau in Morecambe
Happy Mount Park
Morecambe Heritage
Public Art
The Stone Jetty
Way of the Roses

Towns of Two Halves extracts:
“The station announcer directs to Platform 5 those heading for ‘the sunny seaside resort of Morecambe’. On the footbridge, as on the Ponte Vecchio in days of yore, commerce is setting out its stall – a pie vendor displays his wares on a trestle table. Further up the line, Kendal Mint Cake? Morecambe FC, by the way, is famous for its high-quality pies.”
“Silent seabirds decorate the roundabout in front of the station: a sculpted pair of gannets engaged in some necking atop a chunk of millstone grit. Elsewhere there are cormorants on Marine Road (the prom), creatures that might be guillemots outside Frankie & Benny’s, a dove with lines from Genesis in front of the old station building and all manner of birds on the bollards in Morrisons car-park.”

Morecambe Bay, Lake District
Morecambe Bay: ‘sets the town in a quite different light’

“The town’s promotional literature quotes Bill Bryson to the effect that Morecambe Bay ‘may be the most beautiful bay in Britain’. Bryson can only have qualified it because he had not seen all the others and felt a need to be scrupulously fair. There are occasions, though, when nothing but a categorical declaration will do. The view from Marine Road, past the statue of Eric Bartholomew, past the north-facing beach and its attendant mud-flats with oyster catchers, curlews and sundry other waders, and finally across water, all of this is merely a prelude to the peaks and fells in the glittering distance. It sets the town at your back in a quite different light.”
These are taken from the Morecambe chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.