{"id":583139,"date":"2026-05-14T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583139\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:22:09","slug":"new-eric-morecambe-mural-to-be-unveiled-for-centenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/583139\/","title":{"rendered":"New Eric Morecambe mural to be unveiled for centenary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new mural of Eric Morecambe is set to be unveiled in the comedian&#8217;s birthplace on what would have been his 100th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morecambe is honouring the comedic double act Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise with the artwork, which will be revealed by Eric&#8217;s children Gary and Gail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ceremony is taking place at 11:00 BST at Johnny&#8217;s Bar, on Marine Road Central, with a whole host of events planned for the remainder of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Dad and Ernie created something truly special together, built on friendship, respect and a shared love of making people laugh,&#8221; Gary Morecambe said. &#8220;To celebrate that partnership during the centenary weekend, and in Morecambe itself, feels incredibly fitting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new mural of Eric Morecambe is set to be unveiled in the comedian&#8217;s birthplace on what would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-583139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}