O/T Lancaster is the Bath of the North...

[Christies Child]

...that's according to a group who are objecting to the proposed re-development of the City centre.

[Curly]

"O/T Lancaster is the Bath of the North"

don't worry CC, they were confused, they meant Midden.

[durhamshrimp]

Most of them need a bath.

[USA Shrimp]

Better than being the toilet of the north I suppose

[Crimson Crust]

Better than being the toilet of the north I suppose

Does that make Morecambe the bidet or the shower?

[Keith]

Does that make Morecambe the bidet or the shower?

It's always raining...

[Weetabix Kid]

These N*bheads that object to everything get on my t*ts.

Yer lets leave Lancaster full of derolict buildings and make it look even more scruffy !!!

[North Stand Shrimp]

...that's according to a group who are objecting to the proposed re-development of the City centre.

Are you talking about the Canal Corridor plans?

I can understand peoples concerns over building more retail units when there are so many now vacant in the town centre. However there is the arguement that the empty units in town would become more appealing if the city attracted more shoppers with the proposed development.

[Crimson Crust]

...that's according to a group who are objecting to the proposed re-development of the City centre.

Are you talking about the Canal Corridor plans?

I can understand peoples concerns over building more retail units when there are so many now vacant in the town centre. However there is the arguement that the empty units in town would become more appealing if the city attracted more shoppers with the proposed development.

Perhaps if the council had more and better incentives for new business to Independent Retailers
in the City centre then a different shopping experience woulda, coulda be had. We will always trail behind Preston and now Blackburn with there BIG shopping plans. We should concentrate on that slogan, "The Bath of the north." Then if Morecambe had a Marina?

[matty]

Best kebab house in the world in Bath - just by the bridge - mmmm - so good you could eat them osbre!

[sgt major]

Best kebab house in the world in Bath - just by the bridge - mmmm - so good you could eat them osbre!

Mmmmm - Bath - Full of long dirty haired drugged up hippies all dossing for handouts with their equally long haired scruffy dogs (get more dole that way). They make what is a beautiful city look awful, a bit like the scroats that hang around our town (well, outside the job centre looking for their next free dole cheque)

Rant over

[P/T Indie]

Mmmmm - Bath - Full of long dirty haired drugged up hippies all dossing for handouts


Sounds like the students in Lancaster

[sgt major]

Mmmmm - Bath - Full of long dirty haired drugged up hippies all dossing for handouts


Sounds like the students in Lancaster

Quite - so Lancaster IS the Bath of the North

[Harry]

Mmmmm - Bath - Full of long dirty haired drugged up hippies all dossing for handouts


Sounds like the students in Lancaster

Yup, that's what every student is like

[Christies Child]

Best kebab house in the world in Bath - just by the bridge - mmmm - so good you could eat them osbre!

Mmmmm - Bath - Full of long dirty haired drugged up hippies all dossing for handouts with their equally long haired scruffy dogs (get more dole that way). They make what is a beautiful city look awful, a bit like the scroats that hang around our town (well, outside the job centre looking for their next free dole cheque)

Rant over

As somebody who has had to stand in a dole que, albeit in Kendal, I think your comments are totally out of order. Maybe if YOU had to stand in a que for £60 Job Seekers Allowance you'd have a better understanding of what it's like for those of us who are decent living beings who for no fault of ours are a consequence of todays economic climate.

I admit that there are a certain number of 'scroats' as you call them, but the vast majority are decent folk who need a break.

MY rant over!

[Trevor]

Them protesters call thereselves 'Its My City' - they should be 'It's My City Now' I've heard a few of them on the radio and not heard a local accent yet! Drawn here by the uni then think they can tell the rest of us wots good for us! Their a Joke.

[P/T Indie]

Them protesters call thereselves 'Its My City' - they should be 'It's My City Now' I've heard a few of them on the radio and not heard a local accent yet! Drawn here by the uni then think they can tell the rest of us wots good for us! Their a Joke.

That's virtually the whole population of Lancaster I find very few local people live in Lancaster the locals mainly live in Morecambe.

In my office I work with 4 people who live in Lancaster and none of them are from round here originally the three of us that are all live in Morecambe.

[North Stand Shrimp]

Them protesters call thereselves 'Its My City' - they should be 'It's My City Now' I've heard a few of them on the radio and not heard a local accent yet! Drawn here by the uni then think they can tell the rest of us wots good for us! Their a Joke.

I don't see what your point is there.

surely the point is that they DO live here now and therefore have a say in how their city is run.
how long would you like people to have lived here before they get a say?

[Gnasher]

from someone sat in a pub overlooking the avon just off bridge street in bath, what a load of bollox. Lancaster is nothing like bath in style or character.

[Crimson Crust]

Them protesters call thereselves 'Its My City' - they should be 'It's My City Now' I've heard a few of them on the radio and not heard a local accent yet! Drawn here by the uni then think they can tell the rest of us wots good for us! Their a Joke.

'Its our city' innit?

Why not offer them cash and relocate them to where they came!!

[sgt major]

Best kebab house in the world in Bath - just by the bridge - mmmm - so good you could eat them osbre!

Mmmmm - Bath - Full of long dirty haired drugged up hippies all dossing for handouts with their equally long haired scruffy dogs (get more dole that way). They make what is a beautiful city look awful, a bit like the scroats that hang around our town (well, outside the job centre looking for their next free dole cheque)

Rant over

As somebody who has had to stand in a dole que, albeit in Kendal, I think your comments are totally out of order. Maybe if YOU had to stand in a que for £60 Job Seekers Allowance you'd have a better understanding of what it's like for those of us who are decent living beings who for no fault of ours are a consequence of todays economic climate.

I admit that there are a certain number of 'scroats' as you call them, but the vast majority are decent folk who need a break.



MY rant over!

Oi Neil - I did 24 years for my country putting my life on the line on many an occasion but when I went to the DSS dressed smartly in my suit with all my rejection letters I was given NOTHING. I have been in the line and got myself out of it. I wasnt given the jobseekers allowance and got 10 stamps a week to apply for jobs.

So mate, dont think I have had it easy, in fact in the forces pay was crap and I did a full week working to go and spend the weekend doing security to make ends meet, meanwhile scroats were avoiding the poll tax etc where we in the forces had it taken out of our pay packets so when I talk about scroats I sort of know what I'm talking about. Again, all the scroats were in the same line as me when I got out - but they got our tax payers money.

BTW - my daughter is out of work at the moment and struggling but cant get a penny out of the system as she hasn't got 4 kids and no prospects.

Second Rant over.

[Posh]

from someone sat in a pub overlooking the avon just off bridge street in bath, what a load of bollox. Lancaster is nothing like bath in style or character.

That's a little bit over the top. The core of Lancaster is a Georgian city like Bath. The big difference is the scale of Bath's better architecture and what the planners did to Lancaster in the 1960's and 70's but didn't do to Bath.

My business is based in a listed Georgian building on Castle Hill, and the whole of Castle Park has really rather good architecture including Castle Park, the Castle itself, the Priory, St Mary's Parade, the Judges Lodgings and upper Castle Street, leading down to what's now the Three Mariners. The problem is that, unlikely Bath, we were stupid enough to fully engorge ourself of modernity and are now stuck with the Park Safe car park, Mitre House and the job centre stuck in the middle of it.

Lancaster has tons of well-known architectural highlights - Dalton Square (spoilt by the one way system, which didn't need to be there); the old Town Hall; the Alms Houses; Lancaster Cathedral (the finest Paley church in England); Ashton Memorial; and the Quay and Quay wall.

Yet for me the best buildings are the ones you rarely notice, many of which are the work of one of the greatest Georgian architects Thomas Harrison. My favourites are 76 Church Street; the big house on Dallas Road; Moor Lane Mill 1 (not Georgian but fantastic inside); the Music Room on Sun Street; the Bridge Houses opposite the end of Skerton Bridge; Skerton Bridge itself (the world's first flat road bridge); St John's Church; lots of buildings on Queen Street; Queen's Square; King Street; the buildings between the Dukes Theatre and Dalton Square; some of High Street and Fenton Street; many buildings on Aldcliffe Road; Belle Vue Terrace (aka the Monkey Rack) by Greaves Road; and also the hospital building trapped between South Road and Lancaster Infirmary, which used to be the old station terminus.

Yet many of these buildings have spoilt by the treatment by local authorities both City and County, and the treatment of the city itself, and companies seemingly determined to ruin it. For example buildings like Lancaster Police Station are almost a slap in the face to the City's great building style and traditions. However the biggest problem was the building of St Nicholas Arcade and Marketgate, plus the market fire, which effectively destroyed what was left of Lancaster's Georgian heart. Now we'd have sympathetically restored it, here we destroyed.

[Gnasher]

sorry posh, you cant compare the two. you cant say what we could have had if etc, etc. We have what we have now and to compare it with bath is unrealistic.

Just getting ready to wander out for a meal and the choice of food and venues is far better than lancaster. Our time has been spent just wandering around the town where theres far more sights to see in such a small area. The only time we ventured out in the car was to see banksy vs bristol, if anyone is in bristol you have to go see it.

Bath is a major tourist city and world heritage site. Lancaster never has been and never will be that sort of city. As much as i would like to see centros develop the city, this claim is a jole.

[Christies Child]

sorry posh, you cant compare the two. you cant say what we could have had if etc, etc. We have what we have now and to compare it with bath is unrealistic.

Just getting ready to wander out for a meal and the choice of food and venues is far better than lancaster. Our time has been spent just wandering around the town where theres far more sights to see in such a small area. The only time we ventured out in the car was to see banksy vs bristol, if anyone is in bristol you have to go see it.

Bath is a major tourist city and world heritage site. Lancaster never has been and never will be that sort of city. As much as i would like to see centros develop the city, this claim is a jole.

That's because the toourist officials decided many years ago to concetrate on Morecambe, completely overlooking that Lancaster had a terrific historical past and with the right marketing could and should have been on the tourist map.

Fortunately in the last decade or so, the officials have realised the potential and are now promoting the city, albeit 35 years too late!