Property News · July 13, 2012

Let's move to Southport, Merseyside


Plain talking, loves a good time, bit posh, magnificent frontageWhat’s going for it? If Southport were a person, she’d be my granny. Plain talking, loves a good time, bit posh, magnificent frontage. Southport hasn’t declined, like so many here today, gone tomorrow seaside resorts. But it does have an air of a Britain shuffling off its mortal coil when the last of the pre-1970s package holiday generation shuffles off with it. Like my granny. Granny used to holiday here with her mum and dad, redoubtable middle-class butchers from Rochdale. But then she discovered Rome, and Southport never got a look-in again. Why, does Rome have fabulous dunes, the country’s second longest pier, a model railway village, municipal borders? Exactly. Indeed, one architectural historian claimed that Paris’s boulevards were modelled on Southport’s, after Napoleon III holidayed here before taking power. There is a whiff of the Southport-of-the-South in the resort’s broad, leafy streets and jaunty, moneyed air, though, alas, not in its cafes au lait. With a squint, Lord Street’s cast-iron canopies could look belle époque. But it’s mostly proper Merseyside, and fine for it.The case against As Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, “In all my experience of Southport, I have not yet seen the sea.” I hear you, brother. Conservative with a small c. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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