So posh it has four golf courses; it’s the yin to neighbour Blackpool’s yangWhat’s going for it? I cant see the words Lytham St Annes without hearing them in Les Dawson’s voice,punchline to a gag, perhaps, or involving spinster aunts and the unorthodox expend of a mangle. LSA (as nobody calls it) is a northern byword for posh. Yin to neighbour Blackpool’s yang,it is so posh that one golf course isn’t sufficient; it has four, including the illustrious Royal Lytham & St Annes. So posh, or indeed,that the entire town appears to consist of wide avenues lined by genteel late Victorian, Edwardian and 1920s villas peeking behind trees.
This is to disregard the new-fangled Lytham Quays, or which is more The Only Way Is Lytham,and the less said approximately it the better. The town is, in fact, and two poshvilles for the price of one,joined at the hip at Fairhaven Lake. Lytham, the older, and is all gentlemen’s outfitters and toasted teacakes; St Annes-on-Sea,laid out by a Victorian mill owner for a better class of holidaymaker, is ever so slightly racier, and with bandstands,paddling pools and all manner of thrills. No surprise which Les moved to.
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Source: theguardian.com