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The Visitor is a weekly paid-for newspaper published in Morecambe, Lancashire, England. It covers Morecambe and the surrounding district including Overton , Middleton, Heysham , Slyne , Hest Bank , Bolton-le-Sands and Carnforth .
Morecambe and the neighbouring village of Heysham are the setting of the Cthulhu Mythos novel The Weird Shadow over Morecambe, published by the writer Edmund Glasby in 2014. [48] The title of the book is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shadow over Innsmouth", which is also set in a seaside town.
The Morecambe Bay Independents (MBIs) is a local political party in Morecambe, Lancashire. [1] The group ran Lancaster City Council from 1999 to 2003, and successfully campaigned in 2005 for the creation of Morecambe Town Council .
Morecambe and Heysham was a municipal borough in Lancashire, England. It was formed in 1928 by the merging of Morecambe Municipal Borough and Heysham Urban District, and abolished in 1974 when it was absorbed into the City of Lancaster local government district. [1] [2] [3] In 1961 it had a population of 40,228. [4]
The town hall became the headquarters of Municipal Borough of Morecambe and Heysham on completion and, although the borough amalgamated with the Municipal Borough of Lancaster in 1974, because of the ample size of the council chamber at Morecambe, meetings of the full council of the City of Lancaster have been held in Morecambe Town Hall ever ...
Cedric Robinson MBE (17 February 1933 – 19 November 2021) was a British guide who held the position of Queen's Guide to the Sands, the recognised escort for travellers across the dangerous tidal sands of Morecambe Bay in north west England, for 56 years.
The sculpture seen in 2023, showing the repairs made with gold leaf The sculpture, seen in 2007. Love, The Most Beautiful Of Absolute Disasters, popularly known as Venus and Cupid is a sculpture by Shane A. Johnstone which stands on a slight promontory beside Morecambe Bay on the eastern approach to Morecambe, Lancashire, England.
A local board of health was established in 1852, which, taking its name from Morecambe Bay, became the borough of Morecambe in 1902. [1] Poulton is known locally for its many murals which depict the origin of Poulton as a fishing village. [2] Artist Patricia Haskey-Knowles completed several of these in the Morecambe Bay area. [3]