{"id":8390,"date":"2012-07-13T22:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-southport-merseyside\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T06:18:55","slug":"lets-move-to-southport-merseyside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-southport-merseyside\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's move to Southport, Merseyside"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nPlain 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\u00a0Southport’s, after Napoleon III holidayed here before taking power.\u00a0There 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,\u00a0Lord Street’s cast-iron canopies could look belle \u00e9poque. But it’s mostly proper Merseyside, and fine for it.The case against As Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, “In all my experience of Southport, I\u00a0have not yet seen the sea.” I hear you, brother. Conservative with a\u00a0small c. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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