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This week my video come from Beautiful Morecambe Bay. The video suggests the top tips for night swimming, it also advises on safety aspects. You will get to see a demonstration of the lights used at night.
Everything you need to know to swim in the safest way at night.
Morecambe Bay has one of the most spectacular coastal views in the country with beautiful sunsets.
Morecambe takes its name from the bay which provides a foreground to its famous views of the Lake District hills.
Morecambe grew around the village of Poulton-le-Sands from the mid-nineteenth century onwards when a railway line, the Little North Western, was pushed through from Leeds and Bradford to a new harbour on the shore of Morecambe Bay. The present day Stone Jetty formed the harbour’s western wall.
The railway brought not only goods and passengers for destinations further north and west, but visitors to the seaside in need of refreshment, entertainment and accommodation. Morecambe grew in response to these needs through the second half of the nineteenth century and, as a result, still has a rich and varied collection of Victorian buildings. These include the Winter Gardens (1897) and Park Hotel (1900) as well as a host of smaller buildings and terraces. Schools and churches (several by the Lancaster architects Sharpe, Paley & Austin) mark the growth of Morecambe’s resident population at this time.
After a lull, Morecambe enjoyed a second period of growth in the 1930s. Despite the Depression at the start of the decade, working people were becoming more affluent and so a seaside holiday became more realistic for many. The end of the decade also saw paid holidays become enshrined in law. Morecambe’s 1930s boom years saw the new Midland Hotel (1933) and lido (the Super Swimming Stadium of 1936) as well as pier pavilions, cinemas, shops, stores and private housing all in Art Deco style.
While Morecambe still attracted the crowds through the 1950s and 1960s the cracks were beginning to show. The new package holidays with guaranteed sunshine began to make the traditional British seaside holiday look second best. Meanwhile boarding and guest house owners began to explore new ways of filling their rooms.
This all meant that Morecambe, like many other seaside towns, fell into decline. Attractions were neglected, seaside shows closed as they struggled to find audiences and many of the places that had once thronged with visitors became bleak wastelands as buildings were demolished. Day trippers had replaced the week or fortnight’s holidaymakers of old.
Recent years have seen Morecambe’s hopes repeatedly rise and fall as grandiose schemes have come and gone, and the town has struggled to find a new identity. However, Morecambe still has its gifts of nature and history and, at the end of the season at least, the famous sunsets can’t be switched off or the shutters brought down on the views across Morecambe’s Bay.
Peter Wade
About Morecambe
Alongside this natural splendour the history of the Bay takes us from Stone Age communities to the heyday of the British seaside resort with its Art Deco architecture. Take a stroll, catch the train or ride your bike around this stunning amphitheatre and you’ll see for yourself.
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Advice and guidance on outdoor swimming.
Reviewing products for both summer and winter swimming. Accomplished swims are The Solent, Alcatraz and channel solo qualifier. I am the official Wild swimming advisor for The Bay TV series. I am mentored by Adam Walker and a volunteer crew member for the RNLI.
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Advice and guidance on cold water outdoor swimming.
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[@junewong5119]

Great video! - can I just ask about informing the coastguard? For your chosen beach, do you just search online to get tel details for relevant coastguard base? And then call them?

[@TheDynamicDipperMorecambeBay]

Yes if you can inform your area coastguard. You will have a local team that you will be able to search for on Google. I am in the northwest and I inform Holyhead and Morecambe local team.

[@TylerKrasting]

Were you shivering at all?

[@TheDynamicDipperMorecambeBay]

No, lovely when in, layers on quick and hot drink. I was good.

[@TylerKrasting]

@@TheDynamicDipperMorecambeBay you should do a video dedicated to you shivering/recovery when it is cold enough. Great video though! Thank you for replying!!

[@TheDynamicDipperMorecambeBay]

@@TylerKrasting thank you for the suggestion. I will do that.

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@@TheDynamicDipperMorecambeBay just subscribed! Can't wait for the video!