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What's Lancaster like?

pk said:
I was prospecting work with a few Lancaster lads, one or two work on a music project for kids in Morcambe, there's a hip hop DJ in Lanc, and a band I forget the name of, psychedelic Moog funk/rock... My memory for names is shit but I never forget a face.

some proper nice people up there, if I didn't live in London with a family I'd live there for a bit, for sure.
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If you remember the names, let me know-both sound good:cool: Intrigued by music project thing too. Hope still going -might be of some use!
 
Morecambe's horrible but the Midland Hotel's being renovated now, which is great news for all those who enjoyed it from time to time.

'whats the little cove with the antique shop and the pub overlooking the water... Big railway bridge over the river basin...It has a derelict house at the end of a road, Victorian... Something 'dale' ??'
Sounds more like Grange - with the viaduct? Er, Silverdale? Lovely place - I used to live there. Emmerdale? Wharfdale? Daledale (I made that one up but it's bound to exist somewhere). Everywhere's a bloody dale round here. :)
 
pk said:
whats the little cove with the antique shop and the pub overlooking the water... Big railway bridge over the river basin...It has a derelict house at the end of a road, Victorian... Something 'dale' ??
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I think you mean Arnside (but it's just down the coast from Silverdale). Beautiful place, the pub is a fantastic place to drink outside in the summer watching the sun light up the bay.

You can also do the cross-bay walk from Arnside to Grange-over-Sands across the mudflats in the summer. That's well worth doing for the sheer wierdness of looking back at the land from a moonscape that's usually under water.
 
PursuedByBears said:
You can also do the cross-bay walk from Arnside to Grange-over-Sands across the mudflats in the summer. That's well worth doing for the sheer wierdness of looking back at the land from a moonscape that's usually under water.
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But only do it with a proper guide, it's very dangerous otherwise (remember Morcambe Bay cocklers) - I did the walk about 7 years ago as a fundraiser for the Mal Hussain campaign (see earlier posts on this thread) and it was really fantastic day, but due to the tides and the various channels across the bay ended up doing the longer walk of about 8 miles, was knackered at the end and very muddy (the last 1/2mile or so was knee deep mud, lovely).

But totally agree, do if it you get the chance - my favourite bits were wading waist deep in some of the channels and being in the middle with hills around 3 sides and the sea to the left :D
 
janeb said:
But only do it with a proper guide, it's very dangerous otherwise (remember Morcambe Bay cocklers)
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Yes definitely do the walk ONLY with a guide. The present Queens Guide, Cedric Robinson, is a really nice guy and it's fascinating to watch him out on the sands poking the mud with a stick to check whether the path he followed two hours ago is still OK or whether it's turned to quicksand.

I went to the preview screening of Nick Broomfield's new film Ghosts on Thurs night at the Dukes, about the Chinese cocklers that drowned in Morecambe Bay almost three years ago. I think it probably affected us in Lancaster more than the average audience because we live overlooking the bay, but it's a really good film regardless. When the film finished everyone sat in silence until the credits had finished and the lights came back on, then got up and walked out still saying nothing. It really brings home the humanity of the migrant workers that died and the reality behind the "cheap" food we see in our supermarkets every day.

The (anti-abortion) MP for Morecambe, Geraldine Smith, is up in arms about the portrayal of her constituents' racism/aggression towards the Chinese but I've read several articles describing the violence meted out to the Chinese workers. Nick Broomfield reckons he was attacked when he was in the area with the Chinese actors shooting the film.

But Lancaster/Morecambe IS a great place really. :)

ETA: cannot type/spell when pissed
 
I don't really know wtf I'm doing, tbh :( - just investigating options :thumbs:
I will say that Lancaster has been the very first place though that instinctively looked like a nice place to live, instead of just somewhere I could afford to end up in, iyswim.
Googling is helpful and then NOT helpful! :mad:
 
sheothebudworths said:
Huuuuge bump! :D
Do any of you happen to know the area around Norfolk St, which is in east Skerton, afaics? :hmm:
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Some people say it's a bit rough but have had friends live there quite happily. Typical long Lancastrian stone street, small yards, ten mins walk to town, near big park :-)
 
cyberfairy said:
Some people say it's a bit rough but have had friends live there quite happily. Typical long Lancastrian stone street, small yards, ten mins walk to town, near big park :)
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Yes, sorry - I have done some Googling so I know where it is etc - I don't really know what I'm asking :thumbs:
Where I live in Brighton has what looks like a similar reputation and it's fine :rolleyes: :D but I would be uprooting without much time and with no more consideration than it being a cheap house there or a flat somewhere else. :hmm:
 
sheothebudworths said:
Yes, sorry - I have done some Googling so I know where it is etc - I don't really know what I'm asking :thumbs:
Where I live in Brighton has what looks like a similar reputation and it's fine :rolleyes: :D but I would be uprooting without much time and with no more consideration than it being a cheap house there or a flat somewhere else. :hmm:
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I live in an area in Lancaster I was warned off from and been utterly fine despite leaving keys in door, house unlocked etc! Love living here- be a bit quieter than Brighton but still plenty of stuff going on- plus can be in Manchester pretty quickly for music etc. Within an hour I can be in mountains, on the beach, by lakes, in two other cities, moorland and any number of pretty little towns and villages.
 
Sheo, it was the best thing I ever did- love it here- dead friendly- veggie cafes etc if that's your sort of thing, decent theatre, so quick to get to countryside and TWO witchcraft shops! Some great beer gardens close by and good train links to random places that are pleasant and green. Can Can go to Edinburgh on day return for 30 quid and there be butter pies for sale here!
 
It's a nice old part of Lancaster, I drove past that street earlier today. Handy for town, nice walk up the Lune to Halton. Lots of old stone terraces, not much room for cars but very near green fields and open country.

Lancaster is great. :)
 
Not been for a while, but had friends there in the early zeros, and got married for the first time there, too, at Ashton Memorial:
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Some great places, ace city to walk round - bloody cold though!
 
S☼I said:
Not been for a while, but had friends there in the early zeros, and got married for the first time there, too, at Ashton Memorial:

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Some great places, ace city to walk round - bloody cold though!
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You can go and see outdoor plays here in summer - follow them round the park for each scene :cool: Plus it has a butterfly house.

I always thought Lancaster featured pretty highly up the poverty (etc) charts, and that does seem to be borne out by the stats. It's true of certain areas in most northern towns though and shouldn't put you off per se, just something to watch out for. Often it's more about what is statistically likely to happen to you on average if you were born somewhere IYSWIM, and as you've apparently already been born, it starts to become much more indirect in terms of how you might experience it, if at all.

It's also a gateway to a lot of cool places - Lakes, Dales, Scotland, the sea. Manchester's not too far.

Also overall life in the north is better :D
 
Can you fit in a visit sheothebudworths? We could show you the sights?

It really is a great place to live. Like stupidly lovely. Even the rougher areas really aren't that rough. I have the conversation regularly that we forget that the rest of the world isn't like this. I've lived here 20 years and only ever heard of two burglaries that happened to people I know.

Has Google shown you this place yet? Gregson | Community & Arts Centre It's really easy for new people to make friends here. The main employers are the university and the hospital, both of which are always taking on new, often international, staff, making the town surprisingly cosmopolitan for this area.
 
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