• Explore the History and Heritage of Lancaster, Morecambe and Surrounding District

  • By: Lancaster Civic Vision
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Explore the History and Heritage of Lancaster, Morecambe and Surrounding District

By: Lancaster Civic Vision
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  • Podcasts based on the over one hundred guides and walks written by Gordon Clark published on our web page at www.lancastercivicsociety.uk, heritage buildings and items from Lancaster Past & Present by Andrew Reilly as well as any matters of significance that Civic Vision feel that residents, and those interested in the area, should be made aware of.
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Episodes
  • A Tale of Two Liners

    A Tale of Two Liners
    Mar 2 2024

    The magnificent ocean liners Majestic and Berengaria both ended in the Morecambe area - the Majestic to be broken up at Ward's shipbreakers and the Berengaria as the name for a new holiday camp at Heysham that promised 'cruising on land'.
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    6 mins
  • We Lived by the Tides at Sunderland Point

    We Lived by the Tides at Sunderland Point
    Feb 24 2024

    I was born in number 16 Second Terrace in the middle of the 1930s. My dad was a fisherman just like his father before him and there are photographs of my grandad in the Maritime Museum in Lancaster.

    So starts this podcast of the memories of a lady who spend her younger years living on Sunderland Point where her daily life was governed by the Morecambe Bay tides.
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    8 mins
  • Morecambe's Towering Attraction

    Morecambe's Towering Attraction
    Feb 17 2024

    In the early 1900s Morecambe made a bid to compete in the seaside towers wars with a modest 232 foot structure.

    What it lacked in height it more than made up with in elegance and exoticism.
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    6 mins

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