{"id":19670,"date":"2012-03-17T05:59:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T22:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-upton-upon-severn-worcestershire\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T01:56:19","slug":"lets-move-to-upton-upon-severn-worcestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-upton-upon-severn-worcestershire\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's move to Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis town is England’s good-time girlWhat’s going for it? Ooh, I used to get terribly drunk in Upton. Blotto. Especially during the jazz festival, when we’d lie on the grassy bank by the Pepperpot tower, with some killer scrumpy listening to old geezers trying their hand at Dixieland. Happy days. I\u00a0return older, wrinklier, soberer. As a teenage apprentice boozer, the town was just the spot. A pretty ye olde high street full of pubs, nudge-nudge lock-ins and streets almost permanently en f\u00eate. The jazz festival, the water festival, the folk festival, the blues festival; and all manner of smaller jollities in between. The town is England’s good-time girl, like the Big Easy, only with the Severn and cider instead of the Mississippi and bourbon. And, like the Delta, Upton is not unacquainted with inundation: some call it the most flooded town in Britain, 2007 in particular hanging heavy in local hearts. Continual proximity to crisis lends the place a somewhat devil-may-care joviality. Eat, drink and be (very) merry\u2026The case against Locals (and insurance companies) are used to flooding; the new defence scheme may make a difference. It’s small, easily hidden behind a crumb on the road map, though it punches above its weight in presence and culture. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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