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The History of Morecambe and Heysham Past and Present

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Promoting creativity as a means of well-being, it serves as a non-profit welcome space for all ages and abilities. At Norwich Castle, Portillo uncovers the Victorian public's gory fascination with crime and punishment and finds out how campaigners such as Elizabeth Fry worked to improve conditions for prisoners.

Portillo explores a church that moves in mysterious ways, finds out just what it takes to run a 19th-century signal box and summons all his strength to move a one-hundred-and-ten-tonne steam locomotive. Along the way, he does the washing in Port Sunlight—a model village on the Wirral—and hears stories about the aptly named George Francis Train's time in Birkenhead, Merseyside. In Oakham in Rutland, Portillo learns about a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages and decides to take part. 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.

In the heart of academia in Oxford, Portillo visits the Bodleian Library and sees some Victorian treasures, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manuscript and a pocket-sized edition of Bradshaw's Companion. 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. The images could show buildings, village residents, local businesses, the landscape or other aspects of Heysham. It offers the opportunity for young people aged 8–18 to play music, cook or just use the facilities to catch up with friends.

Portillo tunes into the music of the mills and collieries of Victorian England by joining a brass band in Honley, before stopping off in Holmfirth to learn about a tragedy that led to a tourist boom in the town. The Tea Gardens were established in 1900 although Greese Cottage is believed to have been built around 1664.Along the way, he meets a former locomotive engineer who offers him the chance to drive a steam engine. He ends this journey at London Bridge, where two stations are becoming one, and a new concourse is being built. Portillo tries his hand at cutting marble Victorian style, uncovers 19th-century Ireland's surprising industrial heritage and learns how the railways helped bring motorsport to the masses. This photograph is of Main Street, viewed from the top of the road with the Village Institute on the right. 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.

Portillo feeds the crew of Britain's newest warship, discovers how the Victorians planned to repel a possible French invasion, and learns that there is well-established industry where one might least expect to find it. In Scarborough, Portillo's Bradshaw directs him to the castle, where the founder of the Quaker movement was once imprisoned. His last stop is Christ's College at Cambridge University, where he finds out about the student days of Charles Darwin. Heysham’s history spans many centuries and its landscape has been the feature of several notable works of art.At Wakefield, he manages to board one of Britain's least frequent services and finds out what led to the birth of the parliamentary train. Heading east to Stamford, he discovers why the town is a popular location for period dramas, while a ghoulish scene greets him in Peterborough when he visits a Victorian operating theatre where railwaymen were treated. At this distance in time it is impossible to say if the name was originally derived from an earlier language (e. Regular services up to every 15 minutes (numbers 41/100) operate along the promenade to Heysham and to Lancaster University, a bus route also runs from the bus station via Heysham and then fast to Lancaster (number 2X), while service 1 and 1A operate up to every 10 minutes from Euston Road to both Heysham and Lancaster University. Portillo enjoys the fun of the fair beside the sea in Southport, explores the origins of business in Wigan and of the Industrial Revolution in Bolton, and then visits Leyland where he gets the chance to drive a 100-year-old vehicle.

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