What's Lancaster like?

[Throbbing Angel]

www.dukes-lancaster.org is great for cinema, comedy and theatre
Lancaster Grand Theatre » Lancaster Grand for more
Gregson is good - lots of different stuff on there
Kendal is 20 minutes up the road by car if you fancy a change including lots of shopping and https://www.breweryarts.co.uk/
It's just over an hour to Gretna Green Outlet shopping thingy on't Autobahn

You can get the train from Lancaster to Manchester Victoria for £5/£6 if you book early and the times suit

I live 2 miles away from Norfolk St - a colleague of mine would be a neighbour of yours if you moved there.
It's OK round there. I've worked around that area and it seemed quiet (during the day). A few minutes away from the river Lune if you fancy a nice walk.

It was only a small fire at the police station

 

[moon]

I think we should all move to Lancaster..

 

[Supine]

Funny enough, i just applied for a job there.

Well, it is in Lancashire somewhere, so I presume it is Lancaster!

 

[keybored]

As an outsider who works there a bit:

- Friendly people, condescending to southerners but in a "nice" way that makes me feel all warm and fluffy
- Backward licensing laws, it seems you can't buy off-licence alcohol after 10pm even in a 24hr supermarket
- Wetherspoon in Morecambe would not serve after 11pm (see above). Most do till midnight
- Students everywhere
- Northern version of Bath

 

[PursuedByBears]

 

[Bears]

I think we should all move to Lancaster..

What are you waiting for?

 

[rorymac]

You can't just set off unprepared .. does it have an infastructure ?
How long will supplies last ?

Sure, on a good day it's true, any old fool could scale Mount Everest but folks are being irresponsible imo. It's 82 miles further than Heckmondwike .. that's like base camp 2 !!!!

Come on guys

 

[pogo 10]

Sister lives in Lancaster and am here now till tm.

 

[kevkaos]

Moving there in about a years time.

 

[Shirl]

(crumbling now)

Is it because I said I was only an hour away?

 

[moon]

What are you waiting for?

Flood defences..

 

[Bears]

You can't just set off unprepared .. does it have an infastructure ?
How long will supplies last ?

Sure, on a good day it's true, any old fool could scale Mount Everest but folks are being irresponsible imo. It's 82 miles further than Heckmondwike .. that's like base camp 2 !!!!

Come on guys

I went to school in Heckmondwike and live in Lancaster. Have you been watching me?

 

[rorymac]

Very fond memories of Heckmondwike tbh .. I took lodgings with Mrs Jackson
She made fantastic dinners for when I got back from t'lathe works .. apart from the large stone like green objects .. she called them peas

 

[Bears]

I knew a Mrs Jackson in Heckmondwike. Did she live near the playing fields?

 

[rorymac]

I say fond memories Bears but when you ask me that I realise my memory is very sketchy .. I can't picture where the engineering works was (Union St) or Mrs Jackson's house either. I remember a little market, the inside of the works, the inside of the house, Batley, Dewsbury and Wakefield and a strange enough first name beginning with the letter M !!

OMG everything was so simple back then

 

[Bears]

I know Union Street and my Mrs Jackson lived a long way from there, so it does answer my question! I spent a lot of time in Heckmondwike. Believe me, it is no mystery to me that you have forgotten most things about it.

 

[rorymac]

Oh I know .. anyway the great lady is reflecting and we must await. Oh don't get me wrong I wish her well of course I do .. well I said to her 'oh don't get me wrong' I said 'I wish you well of course I do but I ...'
Well I was told to 'shut up' and once more described as 'a massive great wanker and a knobhead'.

These are the conversations that brighten my life and it will just be very difficult to let go is all

 

[tangerinedream]

I might have already posted on here, but I can't be arsed to check. Lancaster is nice, it's got good pubs, with a range of non-stabby options. The town centre is visually quite pleasant even if a lot of the shops have shut down. There's loads of green bits in and around, the seaside is deceptively close, walkable to Morecambe, easy bike ride, the beautiful Bowland fells are minutes away if you have a car and the Yorkshire Dales and Lakes aren't far either at all. The town itself is generally friendly and the train will get you loads of places. I've been here long enough to get a bit of a yearning to move elsewhere, but having lived in quite a few more, um, 'traditional' Northern towns, I forget how special Lancaster is in a lot of ways. It's a pretty easy going place generally and I think moving here was one of the best things I ever did.

The other night I was (as you do) feeling a bit of wanderlust and looking at houses in the middle of nowhere in Scotland which made me think Lancaster was expensive and then for interest, I checked out London prices in some scabby suburb. Why the fuck does anyone live there? How the fuck does anyone live there?

 

[kebabking]

Lancaster brewery has a beer called 'Golden'. After trying it in various quantities over the last four evenings, I can heartily recommend it.

It was kept in excellent nick by the superb Butchers Arms at Crosby Ravensworth in Cumbria - the food is also very good, and to excite the lefty, its a community owned pub...

Turns out the beer is actually Lancaster Amber, not Lancaster Golden, which should tell you how many of them I've had. Just re-checked the quality this evening, and I can confirm that all is well...