Patching up a gaping hole in the vaulted ceiling of the Morecambe Winter Gardens was one of the first restoration tasks Damian Rose/Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust
When the bitter wind blows from the sea, the gaps in the ornate doors of the Morecambe Winter Gardens make an eerie singing noise, like a ghost of the music that once filled the spectacular Victorian auditorium in northwest England.
“That’s what we must do here,” says Vanessa Toulmin, the chair of the Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust, “fill this whole place with music again, that’s what it was built for.”