Property News · May 22, 2015

Let’s move to Lytham St Annes, Lancashire


So posh it has four golf courses; it’s the yin to neighbour Blackpool’s yangWhat’s going for it? I can’t see the words Lytham St Annes without hearing them in Les Dawson’s voice, punchline to a gag, perhaps, involving spinster aunts and the unorthodox use of a mangle. LSA (as nobody calls it) is a northern byword for posh. Yin to neighbour Blackpool’s yang, it is so posh that one golf course isn’t sufficient; it has four, including the illustrious Royal Lytham & St Annes. So posh, indeed, that the entire town appears to consist of wide avenues lined by genteel late Victorian, Edwardian and 1920s villas peeking behind trees.This is to ignore the new-fangled Lytham Quays, which is more The Only Way Is Lytham, and the less said about it the better. The town is, in fact, two poshvilles for the price of one, joined at the hip at Fairhaven Lake. Lytham, the older, is all gentlemen’s outfitters and toasted teacakes; St Annes-on-Sea, laid out by a Victorian mill owner for a better class of holidaymaker, is ever so slightly racier, with bandstands, paddling pools and all manner of thrills. No surprise which Les moved to. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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