The sun never did shine in Bradford on Sea, but then that was probably too much to hope for in mid-January. The wide sweep of Morecambe Bay remained shrouded in low cloud and cold temperatures for the duration, but the welcome was warm. The statue of Eric looks out over the town from the seafront - perhaps keeping an eye out on the Wetherspoons named after him in the town centre. The Bay found favour in Victorian times with: “a temperature of the mildest, a death rate of the lowest, a noble bay within easy reach of the Lake Country, with air pure and bracing, a low number of bacteria per litre of water, a proportionately high oxygen count in the air and an absence of fog” The Bay is still noble and within easy reach
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