Tour of Laurel and Hardy Museum. Largest Laurel & Hardy museum & Stan Laurel statue North Shields

We visit the 'World famous Laurel and Hardy Museum' in the town where Stan Laurel was born - Ulverston in Cumbria on the edge of the Lake District. We also stopped in the town where young Stan Laurel grew up - North Shields in North East England.
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Looking for where to visit in Cumbria or what to do in the Lake District? Visit Ulverston for the world famous Laurel & Hardy Museum. The museum tells the story of young Stan Laurel's birth in Ulverston and includes exhibits from his grandparents home where Stan Laurel was born. Also there is a history of Laurel & Hardy's career in films and on tour. Laurel & Hardy films play on a loop in the old cinema building converted in to this museum. A vast exhibit of Laurel & Hardy memorabilia and small gift shop are also there. Just around the corner outside the Ulverston Town Hall is a great Laurel & Hardy statue. At the end of this vlog we include our visit to North Shields where Stan Laurel moved to at 5 years old and spent most of his youth. There is a blue history plaque on a house at the site of Stan Laurel's first home on Dockwray Square and in the park named after him, Laurel Park, has as its centrepiece a Stan Laurel statue.
Our road trip north - further and further back in time. Eric Morecambe - 70s Brief Encounter - 40s. Now going back to the 20s and 30s. We're in Ulverston, we're going to see the Laurel and Hardy Museum and statues
Laurel and Hardy Museum at the Ulverston Roxy Cinema where they would have showed their films many times years ago. So they've repurposed the cinema as the World Famous Laurel and Hardy Museum
he was actually born here in Ulverston although he spent most of his early years up in the northeast.
There's Stan in North Shields that is, up in the northeast with cousins Nelly and Elsie.
The Ulverston connection
It is likely that Stan was born in the bed on display although we cannot be certain.
entirely due to the efforts of Bill Cubin, founder of this museum. He'd been collecting Laurel and Hardy material for many years and in the early 70s he learned that number 3 Argyle Street, Ulverston was to be modernized.
Collecting what he could he moved it to a small room he owned in Upper Brook Street. This tiny room later became the world's only Laurel and Hardy Museum, although there's also a museum to Oliver Hardy it says in Harlem, Georgia. There's a late 19th century ensuite facilities
A 'List or manifest of alien passengers for the United' The SS Oceanic
sailing from Southampton, October 2nd 1912
Charlie Chaplin, non-immigrant alien
Wombwell Street in London
On the same ship, Arthur Stanley Jefferson Metropole Theatre, Glasgow.
It says Stan would have been familiar with the furniture you see here as all the items of furniture on display are original pieces from the house that Stan was born in. The hats from the 'Swiss Miss' film All these outfits were worn by Stan or Ollie or by the cast of 'Swiss Miss'.
Famous....mock-up of the scene from the 'Music Box'. The piano up the set of stairs
All the tours 1952 September 22nd Swansea at the Empire.
Laurel and Hardy memorabilia.
A plethora of Laurel and Hardy memorabilia.
Here's the statue just around the corner from the museum
The Laurel and Hardy statue was unveiled by....it was unveiled by Ken Dodd.
They've got, similar to the Eric Morecambe one, films and quotes.
'There's another nice mess!'
So yesterday we were in the Laurel and Hardy Museum in Ulverston which was really good Well worth a visit, 6 pound entry. the opportunity to come to North Shields where Stan Laurel's family moved when he was five years old, to this area here which is Dockwray Square. So the statue is here in the park and the site of Stan Laurel's house is over there marked with a blue plaque on the wall.
And here's this statue that's here in the middle of Laurel Park in North Shields
Laurel and Hardy The Great Duo
He was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Cumbria on 16th of June 1890. The thin one of the world famous Hollywood comedy team of Laurel and Hardy lived at number 8, Dockwray Square between 1897 and 1901. He died in Santa Monica, California on 23rd of February 1965 aged 74 years.