Morecambe . Eric Bartholomew (Morecambe's real name) and Ernie Wise first met at an audition for Youth Takes A Bow, a child talent show, when Eric was 13 and Ernie already a member of the troupe. The elders lived latterly in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex, which they discovered when Megan, an actress, was in summer season there. Newspaper: Morecambe Guardian. In real life they lived miles from each other - Morecambe with his wife and family in Harpenden, and Wise with his wife, Doreen, a former dancer, in Peterborough. At the end of a terraced row on Sandylands Promenade, there is a new mural by the Glasgow-based all-women street art foursome Cobolt Collective. Live at Southport in the 1970s, their first entrance brought them the kind of reception normally associated with rock stars. Born at Stoke-on-Trent ellY years ago he had lived since OBITUARY ' Loved Church ld Members of the Regent Park 'A' team compete each year for . Got a. . Multiple photos can be added at point of booking and directly on the notice once it has been published for free. at the age of 83 years last week and was buried at Bowling Cemetery. . of 33. The interment was preceded by service at St. Luke's Church, Weaste, and the chief mourners were: Mr. H. Gee, son: Mr OBITUARY. Mr. Sanderson, who was a draper in Market Place, Oldham. Families can raise charitable donations in memory of their loved one with payments made directly to the charities. The bespectacled, gangling comic genius died in 1984. aged 75. of The youngest of five brothers,ovesLminster Road, Morecambe. Skip to Search. Their shows for the BBC and later ITV - still regularly re-broadcast - were comfortingly familiar: some front-of-curtain banter (usually the funniest part of the show), followed by a sketch or two, and then one of Ernie's deliberately atrocious plays, based on classics such as Wuthering Heights or Mutiny On The Bounty, with guest stars like Glenda Jackson, Peter Cushing and Andre Previn. 3 talking about this. Born in St. Helens, Mr. Howell come to Morecambe OBITUARY Mr. E. Lumb A retired farmer who came to Morecambe 12 months ago for his health, Mr. Edgat Lumb, aged 74. died at his home, Westminster Road, Morecambe, on Thursday, last week Mr. Lumb was a native of ! For Anthony Newley, a mysterious moody 'star' of the era, they devised The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960), a remarkable, semi-surrealist format many years ahead of its time - if also, alas, of its audience. of knowledge He leaves a widow , a daugh- tor, two grandsons and four MR. TERENCE COOKSON great g OBITUARY Mr. A. Pedder Mr, Arthur Pedder. Multiple photos can be added at point of booking and directly on the notice once it has been published for free. It was not until they joined forces with the writers Sid Green and Dick Hills (and, much later, Eddie Braben) in the early 1960s that they were able to re-create their variety success in the more intimate medium. A new mural on Morecambes Sandylands Promenade celebrating the heritage of Wakes weeks, when factories would shut down and workers headed for the Lancashire coast.