Property News · December 7, 2012

Let's move to Ulverston, Cumbria


The grey Lake District stone – and skies – are lifted by festivals dedicated to everything from beer to breastfeedingWhat’s going for it? Ulverston is known as the Festival Town. There’s a shindig for everyone, whatever your predilection. Buddhism? Breastfeeding? Beer? You name it. And a good job, too. Because while Ulverston is quite the pretty little spot – a classic Cumbrian market town, Lake District looks without the prices – it’s also quite a grey one. The skies are, more often than not, set to battleship tones with damp splodges from sou’westerlies; and its builders, over the centuries, have decked out its handsome homes and streets in grey stone and grey pebbledash to, er, raise the spirits (though top marks to the cheery souls on Soutergate who’ve got out the green, blue and maroon paint pots). It’s no surprise, then, that such a spirited, dour town should have given birth to Stan Laurel. You’ll find a dry, understated sense of humour in the queue at Irvings butchers, or across the road at the Vinyl Countdown record shop (well, it made me laugh). And when the darkness comes in autumn, they don’t entirely batten down the hatches, but take to the streets in, yes, another festival – of blazing lanterns. Ulverston folk know how to make the best of life.The case against Not the cheeriest place. The fabulous Lanternhouse arts centre, source of many of those festivals, was a victim of The Cuts. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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