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Thread #121561   Message #2657599
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
16-Jun-09 - 07:57 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Who'll Go To Morecambe? /The Last Resort
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Who'll Go To Morecambe? /The Last Resort
We've got a vintage repro postcard on the wall of our Water Closet which proclaims Morecambe to be The Naples of the North; it also illustrates a vast conical structure which I take it must be the Morecambe Tower. A Google search draws a blank, though for some reason The Polo Tower is still standing...

An adjoining postcard on our WC wall would appear to proclaim Fleetwood to be The Ferry Entrance to Knott End, reminding me of the following wee parody collected from the back of the toilet door in The Steamer during the Fylde Festival 2008:   

Her keel is made of plywood, where her chassis used to be,
Though now they've called her Wyre Rose, she was once the Number 2C,
But the Sheep-Shaggers left her up on bricks and her wheels away they rolled,
But the bus driver, a Cod Head, said "Let's sail her 'cross Canshe Hole!"

She is homeward bound returning, she is homeward bound returning,
She is homeward bound returning -
from Knott End -
Where the hell's Knott End?
It's over there!
St. Bernard's-on-Sea...


Wyre Rose - God bless her & all who sail in her!