F e a t u r e s
Bring Me Sunshine [ Regeneration ]
Last days of the Kyjev [ Archimentary ]
Slap 'n Tickle [ Wrestling ]
Bush's Backyard [ Elections ]
Faith TV [ T.V Studios ]
P o r t r a i t s
B o o k s h o p
F u r t h e r
Bring Me Sunshine | Morecambe's Big Comeback [ Regeneration ]
A b o u t
Recent years had been hard on Morecambe.
A classic victim of the cheap and cheerful overseas package holiday, dwindling tourism and unemployment set Morecambe into a seemingly perpetual decline.
By the mid 1990's Morecambe 'qualified' for the title of 'most depressed town in England' with a report revealing the highest number of antidepressants were being doled out, per local health authority per person.
With decreasing trade, high profile closures, unemployment, drugs and crime, Morecambe polled 3rd in a 2003 book 'UK Crap Towns'; a cruel blow to the once internationally renown holiday destination, formerly dubbed, the 'Naples of the North'. The tragic deaths of 21 Migrant Cockle Pickers in 2004 effectively brought the town to its knees.
In 2008 the Midalnd Hotel was reopened after ten years of neglect. After a twenty year absence, the towns beauty pageant has returned and 'the Shrimps'; Morecambe's football team are now 'Football League' status.
This story is an ongoing look into the turning tides of Morecambes fortune.