The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Ulverston, Cumbria*

Ulverston, Cumbria Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Coach House
• Stonecroft manor before some immature pinko burnt part of it down
• X Rumbelows Fantastic brick work
• uvhs
• Jade Fountain Restaurant, on Fountain Street. GRRRRRRR8 food, GRRRRR8 service plus it has another restaurant in Barrow which has BETTER food and BETTER service and is a MASSIVE restaurant which is also called Jade Fountain. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. PS. the Queen goes here often... :P
• THE KINGS HEAD
• was lower school!!! grr... now probably.. ford park house
• Oxfam... anyone remember when it was a Jazz venue?
• Ulverston Victoria Lower School.
• Has to be the Knob on the Hill, or Hoad Monument.. they should paint the end red at christmas !!
• The Sir John Barrow monument, on top of Oubas Hill a.k.a. Hoad Monument. It is a copy of the Eddystone Lighthouse, check out this url http://www.lhdigest.com/archives/1996/april96/barrow.html
• Hoad Monument ( A huge monument of a lighthouse on a hill.... A BIG phallic symbol or what ? ? ?)

Demolish It Now Building

• Croftlands school. What a dump. Seems to consist of a bunch of prefabricated outbuildings and is an absolute eyesore.
• ralph spours the estate agents horrible little building
• Body care
• the sun and clancys
• Woolworths. Looks out of place. Want the shop to stay, just get rid of the front
• nowt its the best
• hoad
• body care. its grey and square and if it was demolished it would leave a lovely little square to put a statue or an ice cream shop in its place.
• The Church... It'll be funny knocking it down!
• GLAXO
• the person who said to demolish the lower school- it has been demolished and is now being developed into a small housing estate- yey
• the town hall because the council are useless
• The library ... god awful building ! and Lindows Jeweller ...
• roxy bingo i used to work their
• UVHS lower school. I hated the place with a vengance! It's been converted to a refugee centre for a couple of hundred Kosovans.
• The new Welfare State International effort of a thingy-ma-jig.....

The Best Things

• There's decend chinese food, The Jade Fountain in ulverston's good, the one in Barrow is top notch!!! Tasty Bites make great food, especially after a night out the pizzas taste extra nice!
• garjun
• Lightburn park in summer (unfortunatly shell suit wearing fools dwell here aswell) and ford park brilliant especially on carnival day
• Lots of community spirit
• matty and josh
• matty and josh you know it
• cobbled streets , pubs lots, good food .ie. the farmers arms , millers , the devonshire arms. nice little market , this has run down in recent years but is beginning to increase in size again.
• The local Rock Scene and the skate scene.
• THE KINGS HEAD BOWLING GREEN,
• Chippy bank, Bennett's meat and potato pies, ever growing collection of offies... stop press... what's going on at Greatorex's, will we be able to buy booze from 6am to 11pm? Best nights are carnival night- but bring back the 'do ' in the Gill, may not be Glastonbury but Colin and crew at least gave us one official outdoor music event- Musical Mayhem nights at the back of the Rose are also great for seeing who has ventured out of the woodwork!
• 'Bennets' meat and Potatoe pies
• The mad people, the cobbles, the knob on the hill, the Lantern prosession, Chippy Bank, Bennets Pie shop, .....endless x
• New: Lou's Delicatessen. Yummy grub. Groovy music
• Small enough so everyone knows everyone... Has it's own brewery - Hartley's (now owned by Robinson's)

The Worst Things

• Over milking of the "Stan Laurel was born here" thing. It's really not that significant guys.
• Ralph.
• Chavs and more chavs
• No High Cultural stuff
• jody and his chav mates
• nowt
• the all town
• lack of good ice cream shops...gossip...
• The spreading of Chavs from Barrow to Ulverston. The constant brawls at pubs.
• the smell and light pollution from glaxo bored kids........get a life
• kids...everywhere... go to barrow! lol
• Nowhere to go in the evenings and listen to decent music, a nice chilled coffee shop would go down well.
• That the pie shop is closing down.
• Lindow's Jewellers !!!
• Small enough so everyone knows everyone... Has it's own brewery - Hartley's (now CLOSED by Robinson's)
• small enough so everyone knows everyone... The stink from Glaxo Wellcome factory down South Ulverston

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Last updated: 2008-08-20