Morecambe made it to number 3 in the UK Crap Towns top 50 book. Despite this reputation, the fashionable developer, Urban Splash, is redeveloping the Midland Hotel, which they hope will provide a new attraction to the town. I’ve seen the inside on a Channel Four news programme, and it looks like a very impressive art deco hotel. Still, the developers do admit that the hotel has to be an attraction ‘in itself’ because the rest of Morecambe is ‘like Liverpool in the 80s’. The reporter described Morecambe as being so dire that ‘it even makes Margate look good’.
Morecambe is truly the coastal town they forgot to close down. Although, quite a bit of it is actually closed down. The photos show a dilapidated theme park, long forgotten except for a tragic bar still open behind the crumbling façade.
But hey, perhaps I’m being too negative. How about this… The view from anywhere along the seaside is not bleak. It is not freezing cold and an icy wind does not whip in from the Irish Sea. The drizzle does not sting your face as you make your way along the promenade. The sea does not have a weird glow to it, like radioactive dishwater. No, Morecambe is not horrible. Not at all.
