THAT WAS THE YEAR For Britain, 1956 was an eventful year. With the Suez Crisis dominating headlines around the world and Prime Minister Anthony Eden clinging to power at home, it was a turbulent time . Manchester United won the Football League 1st Division and Manchester City the FA Cup. …
Stories
For Lune The Bell Tolls
LUNE VALLEY MEANDER If you’ve driven along the A683 between Lancaster and Hornby, you will have passed through the village of Claughton. It doesn’t take long, as it’s rather small. You might have noticed a pub, a cluster of houses and some industrial buildings. You’ve probably seen the famous brick…
Poulton Lost and Found
Return to the Village At LuneTube, we love a good detective story. This one involves a disappearing village, lost buildings and a vert illustrious family indeed. Poulton-le-Sands At the heart of the seaside resort of Morecambe there are traces of the old village of Poulton-le-Sands. Originally, just a handful of…
Bob: Man of Ideas
Man of Ideas! Bob Chaplin cannot stop inventing things – in fact he’s been inventing since he was a lad. He moved to Lancaster with his family in the 1970’s and worked at Lancaster University in the Engineering Department. His main area of research was wave energy – an area…
Cue The Music
CUE THE MUSIC When Morecambe charity ‘More Music’ set-up home in ‘The Hothouse’ in 1996; they were breathing new life into a building which had served as a place of entertainment for a century. Small, but beautifully formed; this distinctive red brick building is well-known to residents of the West…
Special Delivery
LuneKids deliver history lesson Postboxes are a common sight all over the UK. In every city, town or village, you will find the familiar red boxes belonging to Royal Mail. But have you ever noticed there are different types? Around 800, according to the experts. The first box was introduced…
Weapon Of Choice
LuneChat Episode 2 Back by popular demand is the next in the series of our LuneChats. This week, Our Janine and Our David discuss some of the challenges of Producing their film, Link to the Past, which we released a couple of weeks ago. Our David talks at length about…
FUEL FOR THE FEW
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers…” (Henry V by William Shakespeare) Its 20th August 1940 and Prime Minister Winston Churchill turns to The Bard for inspiration, when delivering a speech on the ongoing struggle in the skies over England. Britain’s destiny hangs in the balance. The threat…
Road Trip
LuneTube Hits the Road It’s time to pack up the LuneTubemobile and head for the country. We’re off to Silverdale, just outside Carnforth. To be more specific, Trowbarrow Quarry, the location of our film ‘An Explosive Tale’. If you haven’t watched that one, we recommend you take a look; it’s…
Snowdrops
SNOWDROPS From hidden bulb the flower reared up Its angled, slender, cold, dark stem Whence dangled an inverted cup For tri-leaved diadem (From ‘The Snowdrop’ by Walter de la Mare, 1929) Springtime for LuneTube There are few clearer signals that spring is on the way than the…