From Red Rum’s famous training on Southport beach to one of the search party who discovered Scott of the Antarctic’s team, a new museum opening tomorrow (13 Feb) will tell the story of Sefton’s coastline.

The Atkinson in Southport is launching a new permanent exhibition to complete its new museum, called Between Land and Sea – 10,000 years of Sefton’s Coast.

Celebrating the cartoonist behind the Dan Dare cartoons, female motor racers who took to the beach to train, the world’s most famous racehorse, Red Rum, Frank Hornby, creator of Hornby trains and Meccano, and more, the museum will open its doors for the first time.

The museum will also feature exhibitions looking at the Blitz’s effect on Bootle during World War Two and the Neolithic era, when the first settlers on the coastline lived.

Emma Anderson, director of The Atkinson, says: “The Atkinson’s new museum tells the stories of this extraordinary, changing and contested coastline. The new museum displays reflect the histories of communities and individuals along Sefton’s coast, and have a strong emphasis on the influence and experience of the coast – in terms of fishing and shipping industries, including lifeboats, wrecks and tragedies, as well as the development of leisure and tourism.

“Our project has strategic, regional significance because, over the last 10 years, regeneration projects up and down the coast have stressed the importance of creating and enhancing sense of place – building up the uniqueness and integrity of places through culture and heritage.”

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