I took a TRIP to one of THE WORST SEASIDE TOWNS in the UK - I WAS SHOCKED by what I DISCOVERED!!!! 

The government would rather spend 3 billion looking after people coming over in boats than spend it rejuvinating broken towns Morecombe.

This restoration man needs a medal, and a lottery grant. Amazing bloke.

That looked dreary and very depressing. The result of the government taxing people into poverty?

Thank God for people like Nick Smith of Queens Market. Positivity that is much needed. Good luck to him and those that support his efforts.

Brill, a great guy with great vision, I wish him well on his project. I hope The people of Morcome and elsewhere appreciate this man and his dream.

Being an old timer and having visited many of these seaside resorts in the past, it's a crying shame to see them in a rundown state. It's amazing how money can be found for "other" things, meanwhile our heritage is falling by the wayside!

Well Lee. That’s probably one of the best vlogs you have produced. As someone who lived there for a while in the 70’s it brought back so many great memories. (Including sleeping on the Noddy Train because I’d lost my front door key🤦🏻) I hope people see what Nick is doing and will help him out. Thanks for the memories 👍🏻

That humble guy doing the renovation should start a go fund me account get him a helping hand

Think I’d rather be in Paphos. Joking aside, what a nice man that purchased that building. I do hope it does well.

Nick helps restore my faith in humanity. What an incredible human being he is ❤️

Such a shame its🎉 not just seaside places it's everywhere , our UK is btoken

This was the best of your videos that we’ve seen! Loved it! What an amazing chap at Queens Market with so many wonderful ideas and thoughts. So sad to see the Winter Gardens, what a beautiful building. The fairgrounds of this country whether fixed or travelling need to keep going for fun, community, memories as well as jobs. I hope these older seaside resorts start to become more popular again and are invested in. Thanks Lee, what a great video x

Hope the guy gets the funding wot an amazing job he's done looks fantastic. The passion in his voice about what he wants to do to help the kids is amazing. Great video I remember morecambe well used to be a nice place to visit. I was surprised to see how things have closed and gone.

What a moving video. The council should be ashamed. The irony is the surrounding area is absolutely lovely.

What a visionary! I hope it goes well for him! Nick.

What an inspirational guy, giving back to a community, trying to bring out the best, from the worst.....making people feel proud to be part of that town....Let's hope it raises the much needed financial support.

Great video, all the best to the guy working on the queens market project.

What a great bunch of people. Best of luck to Nick. Such a shame for the town to be left like that. xx

Thank you so much Lee for featuring Queen's Market in your video. The response has been amazing, I've read every comment so far 🙂 It was quite hard to watch as I believe this is what the outsiders impression of our great town is. As I said to you on the day - everything exists in the town to make it great. We just need to pull it all together and make the town the best seaside town in the country from which everyone goes away with a smile, even on a rainy day.

The best part of this video was listening to Nick Smith talking about the restoration of the Queen's Market. So articulate and interesting as he was, one could make an entire video about his fascinating project and challenge.

Exciting !! In Morecambe tourists queue to watch the traffic lights change colours 😂😂😂

WOW!! I now live in Australia but during my childhood, we went every year to Blackpool (we were dirt poor!!) BUT one year we went to MORECAMBE. Cant remember much about it other than it was such a great place, much better than Blackpool. The man you heavily feature: He deserves a knighthood!! For one so Dyslexic, he has the most wonderful visionary speech. What he wants to do WILL hopefully revive the fortunes of MORECAMBE. QUESTION: Where is the flipping Local Council?? Why is this venture not supported. It’s almost CRIMINAL!! Love your videos. While you were in Australia, you should have come down to Hobart, Tasmania. One of the most BEAUTIFUL places on earth. A VERY underrated Place in Australia!! Best wishes, Trish 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Councillors in general are only interested in their own little vanity projects and not the people they represent.

Everywhere looks worse when it’s cloudy, wet and windy. Go back in July when the Sun is shining

50 years ago my sister went here for her driving test, having failed elsewhere multiple times. She went in November and only saw one moving vehicle during her test! Needless to say she passed.

Wow, that guy is truly inspirational!! The Fat Cats in London have no idea about what’s going on outside the M25. What a guy and what a video you have uploaded again. Boom, yet another 1… Mac, you need to support this guy and update on his progress, bringing reality to your channel

Lee, quite simply, the best video you have ever made. You did make me cry. I am about your age. I adore Scarborough, my family holidays were these places. Gt Yarmouth, days out in Skegness, Mablethorpe, Hunstanton and the rest. Posh Llandudno, and the elephant in the room, Ryle. What’s happened from our shared childhood? From your Cyprus videos, even abroad for UK holiday makers, destinations are showing worrying signs of economic collapse.

This guy is amazing, let's hope his enthusiasm spreads and breaths life back into the resort. If more people thought like he does ? We would see a big difference helping and developing run down seaside resorts, better to be positive, something seriously lacking in this country. Well done that man, and credit to you for bringing this to our notice.

On a school holiday to The Lakes in a hostel in the 60s, a treat was a day trip to Morecambe.Half starved, a mate and myself spent our last half-crown ( 12 1/2p ) in a restarant called The Fish & Chick'n , we had the best fish & chips we'd ever eaten !.Then a ride on a wooden roller-coaster , hot sunny day and heaving in August .So sad to see it like this 60 years later !.Great video Lee .

Jesus Lee, I’m no snob mate but what a dump! If that was the best I could do for a family holiday, I’d stay in my back garden!😬😩

This was as organic and random as it gets and quality content Lee 👍.

Lee just finishing watching this video and it maybe the best one yet ! Seriously top shelf footage etc

By far one of the best vlogs you have done, Excellent work Lee and hope to see more like this.

Nice to see providing a more positive video - loved the guy refurbishing Queen’s centre. Nice to see someone making a positive step to improve things.

Nick Smith from the Queens Market Project is the real hero of this video and of Morecambe. What an inspiration. The council need to be funding this without interfering in the process. If all your subcriber's just gave £1 each what a boost that would be!

I wasn’t sure I would enjoy this video after watching most of your other work over the years. How wrong I was, a great piece of work.

Absolutely brilliant video Lee. You even interviewed one of my wife's former colleagues on the promenade. I think everyone is waiting for the starting gun for Morecambe. Once the Eden Project of the North is up and running, the town should do really well. Unfortunately no one is prepared to invest there just yet. It's a bit of a chicken and egg type scenario. The guy investing in the Queen's Market project has amazing vision and is extremely brave, in my opinion. I hope everything turns out well for him and his vision is realised. Anyway, on your trip to Blackpool, call in at Fleetwood and I'll show you round another down at heal seaside town with wonderful friendly people and I'll even treat you to fish and chips from my son-in-law's chippy.

Amazing, the guy that saved the building and it’s history!

Lee, I have often commented on your vlogs and want to thank you, for this particular one. I lived in Morecambe between 1967 and 1971, before moving to Manchester. You actually gave me a lump in my throat, with some of your coverage. My best friends family owned a restaurant on Northumberland Street, which I worked in during my school holidays, in 1973/74, it was called The Corner House Cafe and was always packed out. My friends grandad was the mayor of Morecambe and he actually opened Marineland, at the end of the stone jetty. I had a 30 shilling annual season ticket for the Super Swimming Stadium, which was the longest pool in Europe. The certificate for doing a length, was called a Blue Seagull. I was in Oliver at the Alhambra Theatre, which eventually was ruined by fire, the same day as the Moby Dick and West End Pier. Great memories and a big thank you to you.

There doesn’t seem to be anyone walking around anymore. No one seems to just go out for the day or afternoon. I think the “internet“ has changed everything! People are glued to their TV’s and cellphones. People just don’t get together anymore. It’s sad.

As a resident I agree Morecambe has really lost its way! Bought up in My mum’s boarding house we were always full and the town was buzzing! Gradual decline over the years when people started flying off for cheap holidays in the sun. When the smaller hotels couldn’t get the business a lot turned them into flats. I must point out though that you focused on central Morecambe and not up towards Happy Mount Park which is still a nice place and no seaside town looks good on the middle of winter on a wet Wednesday 😂

I'm sorry Lee, but Nick is the absolute star of this one!! What an incredible bloke he is. I'd love to see his dream come to fruition.

What a wonderful concept from this amazing man! You can really feel his commitment to his vision. We stayed there on our honeymoon, and bought a wedding ring there, so I would have a Canadian ring and a British one.

What a fantastic guy from the Queens Market! I hope it turns out to be a huge success for him and Morecambe.

What a great guy Nick is,a true visionary. I really hope he gets the funding he truly deserves.

Another great video that gave a nice positive light to a place that is a bit run down in parts but has lots of good people in it. The man that owns the Queen’s Market has done a great job reviving that old building and was a great interview subject,as were the other’s Lee chatted too.The lady that sang did a nice job singing too 👌

Councils are the problem. They don't like people, only the money they can get from them. All of them destroy towns. It's people who make towns work. I live on the east coast and the towns are suffering from no investment. Great video Lee.

What an inspirational man Nick is. Bravo and I hope his project gets the funding it deserves.

I'm sorry Lee, but the expression "you can't polish a turd" springs to mind after watching all those scenes of dereliction.

Bravo to nick ..same thing happened to our town iconic buildings flattened by the council ..want it to be a big car park.should make nick ,the priminster hes in touch with. Us common people. Great video.

Worth a visit on a warm summers day or during the Vintage Festival. The views are stunning and the sunset is beautiful. Not so much on a grey wet January afternoon 😂

So many places in the UK are like this sadly. What has gone wrong with it all? Thanks for the vlog Lee xx

Not often I'd watch a RU-vid video for an hour ,but i thoroughly enjoyed this video, well presented and a great watch.

Lee without doubt your best ever blog i have followed you since tenerife first time round during covid On this occasion you let the locals tell the storie more of this You travelled travelled the world but the most compelling story was on your doorstep ❤❤

Friendliest seaside town in the UK going off this video 👏👏👏 You nailed it - Salt of the Earth!

The Albert Hall/ Queens Market guy was amazing!!! Wow!! How creative and community-minded. He is better than any celebrity in this world!! I'm in love with him!!

11/10 for what Nick is doing with the Queens market, Hope he gets his dream fulfilled, The beauty of Frontier land was that they weren't as strict on the height restrictions etc like pleasure beach was, What is it about you that you seem to attract the people that have had a bevvy or 2 ? Lol,

Talk about a trip down memory lane! I was brought up, originally at Carnforth then Bolton-le-Sands and, like you remember Morecambe being a lively and great resort. So sad to see how dilapidated it is now. Still you’ve still got those lovely views over the Lake District. What they’re doing to the old Palladium cinema is brilliant. Thanks Lee another excellent vlog. (P.S. Sent it to my brother in Oz as he was born in Morecambe.)

Absolutely great memories of Morecambe when I was a kid, I remember specifically the Ferris Wheel at Frontier Land, My jaw just dropped to the ground when I seen the sheer size of it, it was huge. Very fond memories of the dolphin shows as well. It's sad to see Morecambe decline so much now, I'm surprised to see Southport in the top worst because that's a lovely place.

Hat's off. Proper travelogue. Great place, history and people. Really interesting. Kudos to Nick getting that community centre up and running. Very cool vid. Would love to see some more like it. Cheers.

One of the best vlogs you've done I think. Sad to see Morcambe suffering but with people like Nick it can only get better...

I was totally shocked when I visited Blackpool last year. I thought the front was bad. The back streets are totally derelict. What a shame, though. It was a great place for a break many years ago.

Another great video again , this was one of my favourites brings back many memories of past times , keep them coming Lee

Omg such an interesting video once you got into the former nightclub glad it’s been saved. Hoping him the best for the future. I love your videos normally, but the factory got into the history of Morecambe. I’ve never been there but now I want to visit there and especially going into the street food market. What a great idea helping the locals to help themselves you need more videos like this Lee come on

RIP Joan Morecambe, born 26/3/27 died yesterday 26/3/24 ☀️

One of your finest vlogs this Lee. Real quality relaxed work. Well done m8

This is great Lee, you need to do more history videos now and again. Very informative.

Great video again Lee , it was sad to see what has happened to this town. Like many people.....stopping the English channel boat crisis might help. Charity should start at home , but unfortunately our Government's lack of compassion tells its own story. The man renovating the building ,.... absolutely brilliant project he has taken on, which will serve the local people well hopefully. I choked up a bit when you were talking about your Mum & Dad.....it reminded me about my own parents and all the happy memories that our family has had and they are totally priceless !!

What a fantastic and very interesting vlog , hope you will make some more of these. What an inspiration that man is l hope his venture will be very successful

Lee, you're going on full Charlie Veitch in Piccadilly gardens with those 2 lads 😂

Great vlog! Brought back many good memories of my childhood and day trips to Morecombe. And what a vision that guy has for the old building....wishing him all the best!

A good man this man of Queens Market Company. Sobering video MacM. Borderline depressing watching on. In summer I found it to be passable. In winter it does like dire

An amazing man wanting to give a hand up NOT a hand out to the next generation; just amazing lee to hear this man speak and the passion he has; would the kings award or duke of edinburgh help him with funding; really appreciate this video

Nick is a hero for what he's attempting to achieve. Shame he stands out for wanting to improve Morecombe and it's young people.

Great vlog, really enjoyed it. Such positivity from the locals let’s hope it gets funding in the future and it builds back up.

Brilliant episode. The country needs people like the chap at the Hall. ❤ visionary’s are very rare

Really enjoyed this video found it very interesting ! And yes you are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT government & council should be ashamed they have let it get so bad

This spiral downwards began when package deals to the med came in, fewer people = lower investment in renewal, and here we are. I remember in the late 80’s , before I emigrated, going to Southsea, and thinking “ what a dump “!!!!!!. Thankfully, we don’t have dreary seaside towns like this in OZ. Greetings from autumnal Sydney,( sunny 25 today)😎. P.S. CUCUMBER….😂😂😂😂

A very enjoyable experience and enjoyed the people interacting with you.

Great vlog Lee, yes I remember Moracamby at its best too, in the 60's & 70's, the builder guys was amazing, what a credit to the town, was surprised you didn't remember Blobby land in Happy Mount park, was a total disaster and ruined the park, the council really need to get there fingers out & sort the place out 🤞👍

Yeah I agree with everyone else Lee, this is one of your best videos! ❤ it's so refreshing to see genuine passion/authenticity from people!

what a brilliant man you have met, hats off to him, his passion to help the youth is outstanding

Great video, love the way you get really immersed into the public point of view

One of the best vlogs I have ever watched you have nailed it keep up the good work

Another one of your very best video's, Lee. I've never been to Morcambe but I know it used to be a very popular seaside resort along with many others. It's a shame it's been allowed to get into such a state though, and kudos to the guy renovating the ex nightclub, what a nice guy and I hope everything in his vision for it comes to fruition. I love old buildings and think they should always be preserved where possible because nothing that ever gets built in their place would ever be as beautiful and are usually just cheap and nasty. Alas, the weather didn't help here either as nowhere looks great in dreary conditions.

Visited Scarborough with the family for the day last June. First time I'd Visited. It was a nice sunny day, very busy, and we thought it was pleasant and we all had a great time. Well worth another visit.

Really enjoyed this video and the people were so nice. Great to see a man with a vision for the town too

Lee, great content can't wait see to more, Greetings from Australia.

Well done Lee … we need more of this interesting facts about these places build them up stay positive ..

one of your nicest and thought provoking videos..should be interesting to see what you think of my seaside town Southport 😉

Thanks for another great video Lee. So sad to see whats become of Morecambe, being similar age to you i remember so much more being there, i hope good things are coming there again 😊

Really, really good Lee, you have upped the quality with this.

What an inspiration that man is, yes places like this are run down, but it’s the people who make the place special. I absolutely love what that man is trying to do. And good luck to him

Our government's is spending too much of our money on or in other country's, and the migrant issues, When this stops things could improve.

Lee sir that was a brilliant vlog regarding Morecambe absolutely brilliant somet of the vlog we were feeling for you,regarding your memories with your parents there,such a shame but nearly all seaside resorts are becoming like that,soon maybe when your son is are age there won't be any like Morecambe, Blackpool just a memory and fair play to the bloke who was renovating that music hall Lee great vlog very interesting World in Action all the best Richard and Tanya from Southampton ❤

Come to Morecambe when the vintage festival is on , or other festivals -there are many . So many missed opportunities on your visit , Happy mount pk , crabbing pool , alambra , winter gardens , has had many events goin on -amazing inside . Love this place & the people ,moved up here 2 year ago ( coulda moved anywhere) , & one thing you will never beat is sunset over the bay .

The councils have caused this,,high rates and rents,closing public toilets,charging for parking etc,it's better weather and cheaper to go abroad

I remember Morecambe in its heyday. I certainly remember the dolphin shows at Marineland. I also used to go to Blackpool. Some years ago, I visited Blackpool for the first time in years. I couldn't believe how run down and tacky it had become. I was glad to fly back south the following day.

Very entertaining and educational. I like how you carried out research from people who live there also and didn't just slate it with your opinion. The views of the sea look pretty good still. More of these type of videos please. Also, I remember reading in the news a couple of years ago that a pensioner used her bus pass to travel around the entire coast of England, stopping off in b&bs and hotels. It obviously took a good while so not sure if u have the time to do something like that but it would be cool

Great video Lee. When we watched your Australian videos recently we didn’t expect you to be in Morecambe a few weeks later! The views are still great walking along the promenade. It’s just a shame the government has lost interest in Northern towns like this.