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The History of Morecambe and Heysham Past and Present

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Along the way, he does the washing in Port Sunlight—a model village on the Wirral—and hears stories about the aptly named George Francis Train's time in Birkenhead, Merseyside. Portillo learns about a Scottish hero, visits a Highland Games and discovers how an impressive piece of Victorian engineering ended in tragedy. Portillo starts at Hampton Court Palace, where he is treated to a private tour of the Great Vine, the world's longest grapevine, before travelling to Esher Station to visit stately Claremont House, where tragic circumstances led directly to the birth of the Victorian era. In 1846, the Morecambe Harbour and Railway Company was formed [4] to build a harbour on Morecambe Bay, close to the fishing village of Poulton-le-Sands, and a connecting railway.

He descends into Honister Slate Mine (now the only operational slate mine in England) and sees the miniature railway previously used to carry the slate to the surface.Portillo takes a tour of Chester's Roman remains and discovers a secret World War II chemical weapons plant at Rhydymwyn.

He has to alight at Darlington to reach his next destination, Croft-on-Tees, where he learns about Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, before visiting the nearby St Peter's Church. One of Morecambe's most famous landmarks is a statue commemorating one of its most famous sons, Eric Morecambe. In Dunfermline, he discovers the poor beginnings of one of the world's wealthiest men, a remarkable philanthropist who worked on the railroads before making his fortune in steel.At Bramber, he discovers that at the time of his guide tourists flocked to the town in huge numbers to see a Victorian museum of taxidermy. Portillo, wearing the colours of the Irish flag, starts this journey in the port of Wexford, visiting the Wexford Maritime Festival. The third series featured four journeys in Great Britain, and a fifth journey which consisted of three legs in the Republic of Ireland and two in Northern Ireland: for this latter journey, the programme was re-titled as Great British Railway Journeys Goes To Ireland.

Portillo samples local Cheddar and strawberries, explores Cheddar Gorge and the famous caves, and visits Birnbeck Pier, one of the oldest piers in the country, at Weston-super-Mare.High on the South Downs, he learns how trains used to carry day-trippers up the climb to the Devil's Dyke, where flying kites was a popular past-time. Direct services link the town with Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere via Carnforth, Milnthorpe and Kendal (755), Lancaster with connections to Keswick via Carnforth, Milnthorpe, Kendal, Windermere, Ambleside and Grasmere ( 555), Carnforth (5, 55, 755), and, all via Garstang, Preston (40/41), Blackpool (42). Portillo learns how Victorian whisky trains were raided by robbers, travels along one of Scotland's most impressive viaducts and discovers that life is not always sweet on a shortbread production line. Portillo comes face-to-face with a medieval politician, takes a rail tour of Victorian freak show hotspots, and visits Southend to ride one of the world's first electric railways. Portillo discovers how the railways helped train the first generation of commandos at Lochailort in World War II, finds out why langoustines have replaced herrings as the top catch in the fishing port of Mallaig and sails across the sea to Skye to explore the history of the highland crofters.

This photograph is of Main Street, viewed from the top of the road with the Village Institute on the right. At Barassie, he rides the footplate of a freight train hauling coal on Scotland's oldest railway line.

Along the way, he meets a former locomotive engineer who offers him the chance to drive a steam engine. Portillo explores London's theatreland and discovers how 19th-century engineering made for spectacular theatricals.

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