The History of Morecambe and Heysham Past and Present

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The images could show buildings, village residents, local businesses, the landscape or other aspects of Heysham. He then gets to grips with a miracle of Victorian engineering on the Somerset Levels at Westonzoyland, and on Dartmoor embarks on a mid-19th century treasure hunt still popular today. In 2018, the Eden Project revealed its design for the Eden Project North (later renamed Eden Project Morecambe) [23] on the seafront in Morecambe.

Portillo wakes up in St Germans railway station and then visits English China Clays near St Austell.

This is followed by a stop off at Marden Station to visit a village to learn about the role played by the piano in the Victorian home and then helps to tune a piano, before ending his journey at Knole House in Sevenoaks, seat of the Sackville-West family. Portillo then heads for the mystical Glastonbury Abbey, where Victorian tourists flocked to hear tales of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. From Walton-on-Thames, he goes camping and finds out about the unlikely origins of a leisure pursuit that is still going strong today. He has to alight at Darlington to reach his next destination, Croft-on-Tees, where he learns about Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, before visiting the nearby St Peter's Church.

Portillo gets up close to a piece of natural history, visits a garden that was used as a viewing platform for public hangings and experiences a timepiece like no other. C. (known as 'the Shrimps') are the leading local football club and on 20 May 2007 won the Conference National playoffs to earn promotion to the Football League for the first time in their history. Portillo joins an assembly line in a Carlisle biscuit factory and discovers the popularity of the custard cream in Victorian times. It has been enhanced by Printsalive which is a Lancaster group run by Steve Smith and it is reproduced here with his permission.In Retford, at the Northern Rubber Factory, Portillo learns about Victorian rubber technology before travelling to Thirsk. At Gosport, he experiences first-hand the lethal firepower unleashed on the French and learns how the Victorians were engaged in a furious arms race against them.

Portillo travels through Hampshire and Berkshire, stopping-off at Stratfield Saye House, the stately home bequeathed by the nation to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, in 1817. The building on the right is Greese Cottage , which was the Rectory before the 18th century rectory was built; that was extensively refurbished in the 19th century demolished in the 1950s.Heysham’s history spans many centuries and its landscape has been the feature of several notable works of art. Edited versions of the episodes, reduced to about 23 minutes (excluding commercials), have been shown on the television channel Yesterday. He ends this journey at Victoria tube station, where he finds out about the massive makeover currently under way. Morecambe ( / ˈ m ɔːr k ə m/ MOR-kəm [2] [3]) is a seaside town and civil parish in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England, on Morecambe Bay, part of the Irish Sea.

We also offer Let Only services for landlords who want helping finding tenants but want to manage the property themselves.Translated, this gives a more accurate description than the present name of Morecambe Bay as the Latin refers to multiple estuaries on a curved sea, not a bay, as then the word sinus or gulf would have been used. The third series featured four journeys in Great Britain, and a fifth journey which consisted of three legs in the Republic of Ireland and two in Northern Ireland: for this latter journey, the programme was re-titled as Great British Railway Journeys Goes To Ireland. Then he travels to Staines-upon-Thames to see the stone which marked the historic boundary of the City of London. Portillo learns how Queen Victoria used to hide from her subjects, discovers how factory workers went deaf and goes out with a bang in Aberdeenshire.