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The newspaper was founded in 1874, the first issue being on Thursday 4 June 1874 at a cover price of 1d. It then had the fuller title, The Morecambe Visitor and General Advertiser, and consisted of four pages, 18 inches x 12 inches. [4]
Some 30 cockle pickers set out at 4 pm. [3] The favoured area for cockle picking is close to the low tide line near the confluence of the Keer Channel and the Kent Channel, approximately 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Morecambe. [2] The Chinese workers were unfamiliar with local geography, language, and custom.
Webb with Morecambe and Wise. Webb was born Janet Patricia Webster on 1 July 1930, in Liverpool, Lancashire, the daughter of Gilbert Webster, Professor of music at the Royal Manchester College of Music and renowned as one of the few players of the cimbalom. Her mother was Adeline Ashcroft Webster (née Coghlan). [citation needed]
Hird was born on 28 May 1911 in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe to James Henry Hird and Jane Mary (née Mayor). [6] [7] Her family background was largely theatrical: her mother had been an actress, while her father managed a number of entertainment venues in Morecambe, including the Royalty Theatre, where Hird made her first appearance, and the West End Pier.
Morecambe suffered a decades-long decline after a series of incidents that damaged tourism and the local economy. [8] Two piers were lost: West End Pier was partly washed away in a storm in November 1977, and the remnants were demolished in 1978; Central Pier , damaged by fire in 1933, was removed in 1992.
From 1969 to the early 1970s, she appeared as a guest on several episodes of the BBC comedy sketch series The Morecambe & Wise Show. In 1975, she appeared in the Ellery Queen episode "The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs", and in 1988 she appeared in the Tales of the Unexpected episode "A Time to Die".
Ernest Wiseman (27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became a national institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.
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