Morecambe Timeline 1086 Poltune, Bare, Toredholme and Hessayne (or Hessam) listed in the Domesday Book 1732 Poulton Free School (eventually National school) 1742 Completion of current Morecambe parish church 1787 Glasson Dock finally finished 1787 Skerton Bridge opened 1797 Preston to Tewitfield canal opened 1819 Tewitfield to Kendal canal opened 1824 Roads linking Lancaster, Bare, Torrisholme and Poulton 1826 Preston Kendal canal link to Glasson Dock opened 1827 Morecambe Hotel opened 1829 First Morecambe Regatta 1835 Steamboat service to Ulverston and Liverpool 1840 Morecambe sees Aurora Borealis 1840 Railway reaches Lancaster 1841 Elms Hotel 1841 Holy Trinity church rebuilt 1844 Proposed Lancaster to Morecambe Harbour canal abandoned 1846 Morecambe Harbour and Railway Co formed and absorbed into North Western Railway 1848 Morecambe Northumberland St station opened 1848 North Western Hotel built (renamed Midland Hotel 1871) 1848 Single track rail line to Green Ayre station opened 1849 Green Ayre station connected to Lancaster Castle station 1850 Building starts in Poulton 1850 First use of Morecambe to describe the area 1850 Morecambe Harbour opened 1850 Rail line to Skipton opened 1852 Storm damages Stone Jetty & NW Hotel 1853 18 bathing machines available 1853 Dog & Partridge cricket club formed 1853 Morecambe Harbour Station opened 1853 Mr Curtis omnibus delivered visitors to anywhere in town from the station 1855 Wesleyan Chapel Pedder St 1858 Morecambe gas works Moss Lane 1860 Building starts in West End 1860 Morecambe Terrace 1861 Lancaster and Carlisle Railway build a link from Hest Bank to Morecambe 1862 Widespread flooding 1863 Clark St Congregational church 1864 Bare Lane station opened 1865 Drinking water pipes laid from Lancaster reservoirs to Morecambe 1867 First public baths in Green St 1867 Furness & Midland Railway created a link between Carnforth and the Midland Railway Morecambe to Yorkshire Line 1869 Central Pier opened 1869 Townley St baths offers cheap rates to workers on Saturdays (change over day ?) 1870 Poulton Lane station opened 1871 North Western Railway absorbed by Midland Railway 1874 First edition of The Visitor 1875 Cemetery 1875 Hornby Terrace 1875 Opening of Strawberry Gardens 1876 Clarence St Methodist 1876 Green St church 1876 Zion chapel 1877 Moss Lane School 1878 Bare School (later Ratcliffes sweet factory) 1878 Peoples Palace and Aquarium opens (later Winter Gardens ballroom) 1878 St Laurence church 1878 Summer Gardens open on Regent Rd 1878 Torrisholme Methodist church 1879 Summer Gardens has first electric lighting in Morecambe 1884 Bankrupt summer gardens offered at auction 1886 Bare Battery and training camp established 1886 Euston Rd station opened replacing Poulton Lane 1886 John Ruskin visits Morecambe 1886 Poulton to Overton horse tram service opened 1887 Morecambe tram opened 1888 First tramway extended to Heysham 1888 New water supply from Lancaster Water Works 1889 Alhambra opens as market 1889 Anstable Home sanitorium 1889 Morecambe adopted as name for Poulton, Torrisholme and Bare 1889 Smokey Joes opens as Music Hall 1890 Building starts in Bare 1890 Summer Gardens in liquidation again 1891 Morecambe Electric Light and Power Co founded 1891 Telephone exchange, Morecambe St 1891 Thornton Rd 1892 Telephone line to Lancaster 1893 Bare Institute inaugurated 1894 Electricity lines extended to Sandylands 1894 West End School 1895 Catholic church 1895 Queens Market opened 1896 Baths on Winter Garden site demolished 1896 West End Pier opened 1897 Bare Laundry 1897 Grand Hotel 1897 Promenade extended to Bare 1897 Victoria Pavilion theatre opened adjacent to Peoples Palace 1897 West End Methodist church 1898 Electricity lines extended to Bare 1898 Electricity works Woodhill Lane 1898 Parliament St church 1898 Royalty Theatre opens 1898 St Marys School 1898 Summer gardens bankrupt, bought by a local consortium 1898 Victoria Hospital building started 1898 Warwicks Revolving Tower opened 1899 Deveonshire Hall opened 1899 Emmanuel church 1899 Girls Friendly Society opened 1899 Grosvenor Hotel 1899 New sewage system inaugurated 1899 Police station Kensington Rd 1901 St John church Sandylands 1902 Base of Tower Pavilion opens 1902 Morecambe achieves Borough status 1902 Sandylands Methodist church 1903 Warwicks Revolving Tower closed and Whitehall cinema opened 1904 Heysham Harbour opened 1904 Midland Railway open extension to Heysham Harbour station 1905 Bare Golf Course opened (Now Morecambe Grammar School) 1905 Cinderella Home 1905 Clock Tower built 1905 Shipbreaking begins at Morecambe harbour 1905 Summer gardens starts selling building land 1906 First deck chairs 1906 Princes Crescent construction begins 1906 Telephone line to Carnforth 1906 Victoria Bathing Pool (Bare Pool) 1907 First cross bay swim 1907 Morecambe Promenade station opened 1908 Lancaster to Heysham rail line electrified 1908 Suffragette meeting at the Alhambra 1909 Figure 8 Railway opened by Mr Helter 1910 Car parking on the prom for 14 cars 1910 Promenade improvement scheme creates Marine Rd 1910 St Barnabus church 1911 Alhambra bankrupt 1911 Heysham horse drawn trams replaced by petrol driven trams 1911 Summer Gardens closed 1912 Art & Technical school opened (now Cinnebar House) 1912 Fahys buy first charabanc to arrive in Morecambe 1912 Water supply integrated with Lancaster 1913 Fahys acquire the Music Hall (Smokey Joes) as the first garage in Morecambe 1914 Art & Technical school taken over by the army 1914 Flying display at Bare 1915 West End pier fire 1917 George V visits White Lund munitions factory 1917 White lund munition factory explosion 1919 Alhambra restructured 1919 Art and Technical school becomes Morecambe Grammar School 1919 Dame Nellie Melba plays The Tower 1919 Morecambe Corporation adds buses alongside horse trams 1919 Morecambe police court 1919 Palladium opens in the 1895 Queens Market premises 1919 Peace celebrations (evolved into Morecambe Carnival) 1919 Scale Hall aerodrome opened 1920 Formation of Morecambe FC 1920 Second munition factory explosion 1921 Morecambe - Lancaster horse trams replaced by buses 1921 Morecambe Rd 1921 War memorial 1922 Plaza Cinema 1923 Broadway (road) opened 1923 Morecambe Golf club established 1924 Morecambe Golf clubhouse opened 1925 Heysham Tower holiday camp opened 1925 Lettered rock launched by Dick Taylor 1925 Princes Crescent shoe shop installs an x-ray machine to check fitting (still in use in the 60s) 1925 West End pier fire again 1925 Westgate opened 1926 Buses replaced horse drawn drams between Battery and Bare 1926 First Morecambe Carnival 1926 Regents Park opened on part of the Summer Gardens site 1927 Cinemas allowed to open Sundays after 19.00 1927 Happy Mount Park 1927 Storms caused widespread damage 1928 Frank Ashworth renames Lotto as Bingo 1928 Heysham petrol driven trams replaced by buses 1928 Morecambe and Heysham amalgamate 1929 Coast Rd Bare to Bolton-le-Sands 1930 Sandyland sunshine slopes 1931 Central Pier starts bathing beauty competitions 1931 Woolworths Euston Rd 1932 Last bathing machines 1932 Central bandstand relocated to Rylands Park 1932 Demolition of Poulton Hall 1932 Town Hall 1933 Central Pier fire 1933 Harbour Band Arena 1933 New Midland Hotel built 1934 Bare Methodist 1934 Clearance of Wards shipbreaking site 1934 Craig Home 1934 Elms Hotel extension and refurbishment 1934 Grosvenor Hotel refurbishment 1934 Refurbishment of Winter Gardens 1934 St Christophers church 1935 Bath Hotel rebuilt 1935 Central Pier reopened 1935 Construction of Super Swimming Stadium 1935 Land reclamation for Super Swimming Stadium 1935 Nurses home opened 1935 Royalty Theatre refurbished 1936 Boating pools opened on Sundays 1936 Carlisle road bridge widened 1937 Broadway hotel 1937 Burtons Building replaces West View Hotel 1937 Cyclone replaces Figure 8 1937 Odeon Cinema 1937 Part of old golf links land donated for a new Morecambe Grammar School 1938 Arcadia Theatre 1939 Littlewoods 1939 Middleton holiday camp opened 1939 Morecambe Grammar School relocates to Dallam Avenue 1939 Scale Hall aerodrome closed 1939 Woolworths promenade 1940 Empire complex 1940 Floral Hall opened 1948 Demolition of wooden arm of Morecambe harbour 1949 100,000 visitors came for the first night of the illuminations 1949 Imperial Hotel fire 1949 Relaunch of Morecambe illuminations 1949 The Tower becomes The Gaumont cinema 1950 Ballet Rambert at the Winter Gardens 1950 Demolition of the Kursaal 1951 Wartime potted shrimp restrictions lifted 1952 Winter Gardens hosts the annual Labour Party conference 1955 Christ Church Broadway 1955 Saddlers Wells ballet at the Winter Gardens 1955 Tommy Steele plays Winter Gardens 1955 Tussauds take over the Witehall Cinema, formerly Theatre 1956 Start of Miss Great Britain 1957 Scale Hall station opened 1957 Totally new Imperial Hotel re-opened 1958 Heysham Head offered for sale 1960 Morecambe Bowl 1960 Premier of The Entertainer 1963 Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who and many more play Morecambe 1964 Illuminations switched on by Jimmy Savile 1964 Marineland 1964 Winged World at Heysham Head 1965 Lancaster University 1967 Bare Old Hall demolished 1969 Dixieland Bar and amusements replace the Winter Gardens ballroom 1969 Single decker buses phased in 1970 Alhambra fire 1970 Moby Dick Fire 1972 Arndale Centre opened 1972 Greyhound bridge converted to road use 1972 Plaza closed 1974 Last horse drawn landaus 1974 Morecambe, Heysham and Lancaster reamalgamated 1976 Odeon / Classic closed 1977 Demolition of Super Swimming Stadium 1977 Winter Gardens theatre closed 1978 West End Pier destroyed by storm 1979 Dome and outdoor pool opened 1980 Big wheel opend 1982 Big wheel dismantled 1982 Heysham becomes base for Morecambe Bay gas field 1982 Winter Gardens ballroom demolished 1983 Empire cinema closed 1983 First Heysham nuclear power station becomes operational 1986 Last televised Miss GB … from The Dome 1987 Block of flats built on Palace Theatre site 1987 Current Heysham Port station opened 1987 Euston Rd Conservative HQ sold 1987 Surgery relocated from Queen Vic to RLI 1988 Heysham Head sold to developers 1989 Grand Hotel demolished 1990 M&S closes 1992 Central Pier demolished 1994 Current Morecambe station opened 1996 Last Morecambe illuminations 2001 Demolition of Dome 2002 New Victoria Hospital outpatients centre opened 2004 Cocklepickers disaster 2014 Megazone / Tussauds / Whitehall destroyed by fire
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