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The History of Morecambe and Heysham Past and Present

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Portillo is invited aboard the construction locomotive for Crossrail to travel under the River Thames and to meet the impressive Mary, vital to the project. Portillo starts in Faversham, where he visits the Shepherd Neame Brewery, one of the oldest in Britain. In Glasgow, he investigates 'Mackintosh style' in an iconic city tea room, before seeing the devastating effects of the 2014 fire at the Glasgow School of Art. Portillo's next stop is Arundel Castle, and he's pleased to find that the Duke of Norfolk was a great supporter of the railways. On this journey, Portillo enjoys the stunning scenery of rural and coastal Scotland, travelling from Stirling, through the industrial east coast and dramatic Highland landscapes, to the beauty of the western lochs, finally ending his journey in John o' Groats.

He also dons a boiler suit and takes to the footplate of a locomotive on the Bluebell Railway, Britain's first passenger-carrying heritage line, and then witnesses the power of dynamite at first hand. The first poster on the left of the photograph is for the Morecambe Astoria cinema and advertises the film ‘The Music Goes Round’, released in 1936. In 1994, The World of Crinkley Bottom attraction in Happy Mount Park closed only thirteen weeks after opening.In March 2011 Urban Splash sold the freehold of the building to Lancashire-based 'The Lancaster Foundation'. Morecambe station has a regular rail service from Lancaster, with some trains running direct from Preston and Leeds.

The Yorkshire playwright and author Alan Bennett has enjoyed a long association with Morecambe and has often referred to the town in his work and writing. On this [a] journey, Portillo crosses the Irish Sea to discover the rich railway history of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, following the unfurling 19th-century expansion of the tracks from Dublin to Derry.

Portillo comes face-to-face with a medieval politician, takes a rail tour of Victorian freak show hotspots, and visits Southend to ride one of the world's first electric railways. Next, he explores Scotland's capital, Edinburgh; talking to passengers on a tram, driving a tram and visiting the Royal College of Surgeons to see the Museum, where he learns about anatomy teaching, past and present. One of Morecambe's landmark buildings is the partially renovated Victoria Pavilion or Morecambe Winter Gardens. From Newark Northgate, Portillo walks to the nearby St Mary Magdalene Church to learn about its song school and choir. He also visits Waltham Cross to see how the gunpowder made there fuelled the building of an empire and heads to Hackney to uncover the gruesome details of the first murder on a train.

On this journey, Portillo takes in some of northern England's most dramatic scenery, from Berwick-upon-Tweed across the Pennines to the Lake District before completing the journey on the Isle of Man. Recent tourism initiatives have made Morecambe a centre for bird watchers with the Tern Project enhancing the town's heritage linked to the extensive natural landscape of Morecambe Bay and its diverse wildlife. One of Morecambe's most famous landmarks is a statue commemorating one of its most famous sons, Eric Morecambe. In Blantyre, he discovers the humble beginnings of Britain's most famous missionary and explorer, and learns to bake sour dough in Scotland's oldest bakery in Strathaven. That name is derived from the Roman name Moriancabris Æsturis shown on maps prepared for them by Claudius Ptolemœus ( Ptolemy) from his original Greek maps.Portillo learns of the Victorian fascination with antiquity by visiting the amazing Cromlech stones of Dundalk.

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