Time and Tide Bells

04/06/2026

🌊 Memories of Morecambe's Coast 🌊

Have you explored our Coastal Connections map yet?

As part of a Time & Tide Bell and National Lottery Heritage Fund project, local people shared their memories, stories and reflections about life on the Morecambe coast—past and present. From childhood adventures and family traditions to memories of work, weather and changing landscapes, these voices help tell the story of our coastline.

🗺️ Take a virtual journey along the coast and listen to the memories connected to different locations around Morecambe.

Or, if you're visiting, follow the physical trail and scan the QR codes along the route to hear the stories where they happened.

The link to the virtual map is in our comments below 👇

Morecambe Artist Colony

01/06/2026

We love finding your Time and Tide Bell videos 😍

Check out John Edlin’s video.

28/05/2026

🔔 PAR TIME AND TIDE BELL 🔔

With thanks to

Moved by the tides themselves, the bell rings with the changing moods of the water, reminding us of our connection to the coast and the reality of rising sea levels.

Beautiful, haunting and completely unique every day. If you’re visiting Par Beach, take a moment to stop and listen. 💙

19/05/2026

Did you know Cornwall has a bell only the ocean can ring? 🌊

Hope you can view this video we found on TikTok 👇🏼

245 likes, 32 comments. “Did you know Cornwall has a bell that only the ocean can ring? 🌊 This is the Time and Tide Bell at Par Sands. I caught it at low tide when you can walk right up to it, but by the end of the day, it’s completely submerged! It’s one of only 13 in the UK and it’s des...

13/05/2026

🌊🔔 Have you visited the Mablethorpe Time and Tide Bell?

Installed on the beach at North End, our remarkable sculpture by Marcus Vergette rings naturally with the movement of the tide — a beautiful and haunting reminder of our changing coastline and rising sea levels.

The Mablethorpe bell is unique within the UK’s Time and Tide Bell network, standing directly on the sandy beach where visitors can hear the sea itself play the bell at high tide.

Worth a walk along the shore if you’re in the area. Listen carefully… the sea does the ringing. 🌊

📸 with thanks to Dave Gilyeat

29/04/2026

Hello 👋 Brixham Tide Bell, with thanks to Carminesacco14 for this brilliant video

Most people walk past this...
But when the tide drops - something incredible appears.

22/04/2026

Sound on 🔊🔔
Each chime of the Time and Tide Bell echoes the turning tide 🌊
A reminder that the sea is always speaking — if we listen

📸 on TikTok Cemaes Time and Tide Bell

17/04/2026

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08/04/2026

With thanks to at Happisburgh Time and Tide Bell

“Swoosh, waves, foam, textures, rocks, sculpture, sea, sunrise colours, what’s not to like…?”

22/03/2026

🔔 Colour, Light, Sound, Silence
📍 Standpoint Gallery
🗓️ 20 March – 25 April 2026
🎟️ Free entry

Step into a world of texture, atmosphere, and quiet intensity with the latest exhibition by Marcus Vergette creator of Time and Tide Bell sculptures and Simon Marsh at Standpoint Gallery.

Working across sculpture, sound, painting and glass, their work reflects on light and sound as energy—waves that move through space, carrying meaning, memory and emotion.

🔔 Vergette’s sculptural bells—some ringing, some silent—draw on deep histories of communication, authority and ritual, while speaking urgently to today’s environmental concerns.

🎨 Marsh’s layered paintings and constructions respond to the shifting light and textures of West Cornwall, combining drawing, print and glass to create fragile, luminous works that echo landscape and time.

Having first met in 1980 at Central School of Art & Design, this exhibition brings together decades of shared history and evolving practice.

⚠️ Please note:
The gallery is closed Good Friday (5 April) and Saturday (6 April), but open Thursday 4 April.

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