IN TODAY'S SCOOP
This week's sponsor: Rebecca Haddow, Mobile Hairstylist.
Twenty years of salon experience, now coming to your front door. Rebecca has gone mobile across the area, offering cuts and restyles, colouring, extensions, perms and blow-dry's, all in the comfort of your own home.
Friendly, professional, and tailored to you.
💇♀️ The competition has closed
Thank you to everyone who entered Rebecca's free cut and blow-dry giveaway. Entries closed last night, and Rebecca is picking a winner at random and announcing them on her Facebook page today.
HALLOWEEN & FIREWORKS ARE HERE!
The weekend's storms have blown through. Sunderland Point and a few low roads round the bay were under flood warnings and alerts at the start of the week, so give the Environment Agency flood page a quick look before you drive the shore roads.
Holker has its Halloween days on Friday and Saturday, from 10.30am to 4.30pm. Children get pumpkin carving, a ghostly trail, monster crafts and face painting in the gardens. A child ticket is £12 when you buy it with an adult gardens ticket, and the activities are paid for on the day.
Storyteller Taffy Thomas is in the Library at 11am and 2pm, for about an hour each time. Those sessions are £5 a person, adults included, and Holker recommends booking ahead. Halloween at Holker
On Saturday evening, Lancaster's Espirito of the Dead Halloween parade is on Penny Street from 6pm.
Sunday is the turn. The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway runs its last steam train of 2026, and that evening Morecambe Promenade has its fireworks: gates at 5pm, a children's display around 6.30pm and the main one around 8.30pm, free, with a fun fair and food stalls. Heysham Village does the same on Monday.
And on Bonfire Night itself, Longlands Inn at Tewitfield has Barry's Firework Bonanza from 7pm. In their own words: "knowing Barry, there'll probably be a bit of showing off."
Around the Bay
Morecambe has a comedy festival next month
Steve Royle headlines the opening night at the Winter Gardens
The Morecambe Comedy Festival runs from Saturday 21st to Saturday 28th November, in the year of Eric Morecambe's centenary. Steve Royle headlines the opening night at the Winter Gardens at 8pm, with Brennan Reece and Daliso Chaponda, and there are free caricature workshops there the same afternoon at 2pm and 3.30pm.
Through the week there are three nights at the West End Playhouse, Just The Tonic at The Platform and a Best of Morecambe showcase at the Town Hall. It closes on the 28th with Ed Bye and Paul Jackson in conversation at the Winter Gardens.
A new exhibition at the Maritime Museum
The exhibition opened early at Lancaster Maritime Museum, it was scheduled to open on 31st October
A Formidable Force opened at Lancaster Maritime Museum on the 17th October and runs until the 14th February, so it covers every wet weekend between now and spring.
Up the road, the City Museum's Hidden Hoards and Fascinating Finds closes on Sunday, and its next exhibition, Through the Lens, opens on the 21st of November.
WHAT'S ON · 29th OCTOBER - 5th NOVEMBER
A few picks a day. The full list for each day is one tap away on the calendar.
👪 - >marks the ones that work well with children.
Thursday 29th
Janet Street-Porter Is Still Off The Leash at 80 | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 7.30pm. £30
Woodhill | The Dukes, Lancaster. 7pm
The Royal Station Beer Festival | Carnforth. Runs to Sunday
👪 Halloween Silent Disco for families | The Coro, Ulverston. 2pm
👪 Georgian's Marvellous Medicines | Judges' Lodgings, Lancaster. 11am
Janet Street-Porter Is Still Off The Leash at 80
Friday 30th
👪 Halloween at Holker | Holker Hall, Cark. 10.30am to 4.30pm, and Saturday
👪 Boo at the Zoo | Lakeland Wildlife Oasis, Milnthorpe. 6pm
An Audience with Jeff Stelling | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 7.30pm. £36
Abbamania | The Platform, Morecambe. Doors 7pm. £31.54
Stipe, the R.E.M. tribute | Kanteena, Lancaster. 7.30pm
Boo at the Zoo | Lakeland Wildlife Oasis, Milnthorpe
Saturday 31st
👪 Espirito of the Dead Halloween Parade | Penny Street, Lancaster. 6pm
👪 Tiny Terrors Monster Mash, a family Halloween rave | Kanteena, Lancaster. 12pm. Free
👪 Candlelit Walk | The Gill, Ulverston. 5.45pm. £1.75, pre-booked tickets only
An Evening with Bram Stoker | Ford Park, Ulverston. 7pm. £16
Haunted House 10th Anniversary | The Platform, Morecambe. 7pm to 2am, last entry 11pm. From £25
Black Parade, 00s emo Halloween party | Kanteena, Lancaster. 11pm. £7 in advance
Sunday 1st
👪 Morecambe Promenade Fireworks | Gates 5pm, children's display around 6.30pm, main display around 8.30pm. Free
👪 Last steam train of 2026 | Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Haverthwaite
Brighouse and Rastrick Band | The Coro, Ulverston. 3pm
The Skids and Theatre of Hate | Kanteena, Lancaster. 5pm. £30
Monday 2nd
👪 Heysham Village Fireworks | Gates 5pm, children's display around 6.30pm, main display around 8.30pm. Free
Pizza and a drink, £13.95 | The Hurley Flyer, Westgate, Morecambe. Every Monday, with curry on Wednesdays and steak on Thursdays
Tuesday 3rd
We Will Rock You, by Lancaster Red Rose AODS | Grand Theatre, Lancaster. 7.15pm. £18. Runs to Saturday, with a 2.15pm Saturday matinee
Wednesday 4th
Friends of The Platform coffee afternoon | The Platform, Morecambe. 1pm
👪 Holker Hall and gardens reopen for the week | Cark. 10am to 5pm
Thursday 5th
👪 Light Up Lancaster | Across the city centre, to Saturday. 5pm to 10pm. Free
👪 Barry's Firework Bonanza | Longlands Inn, Tewitfield, Carnforth. 7pm
Williamson Park After Dark: From Quarry to Community Space | Williamson Park, Lancaster. 5.30pm
Russell Watson: An Intimate Evening | The Coro, Ulverston. 7.30pm
Light Up Lancaster
ONE GOOD THING
Sandylands Primary School Staff in 1911
Sandylands Primary School Staff 2026
Sandylands Primary in Morecambe is 125 years old this month, and it is asking for help filling in its history.
The school opened in 1901 on a temporary site on Sefton Road, with just over 100 children, and moved to Hampton Road in 1904. It has over 400 pupils today. Head Penny Lupton, whose mother taught there, is building a family tree of the school and wants names, photos, old exercise books and memories from anyone who went. Racing motorcyclist John McGuinness is one former pupil already found.
Year six teacher Angela Cokell was a pupil there too, so the children have started by interviewing her!
Call 01524 410286 or email [email protected] if you think you may be able to help.
Sandylands Primary School 1970
Sandylands Primary School 2026
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