Barrow-in-Furness; Sunday, 28 June, 2015

A good night’s sleep and I woke to the predicted drizzle lashing at the window of my hotel room. Sadly, the restaurant next door that breakfast is served in is not physically connected to the hotel, so after a warm shower in my room I topped that up with a cold misting drizzle dash from the shelter of the hotel to the shelter of the restaurant.

After breakfast, and with the rain having decreased down to just a few spits, I headed across the car park to visit the Docks museum. The museum has been built inside a former graving dock with the walls and floor of the dock forming the sides of the museum. The museum was very interesting, though I wasn’t able to see everything as they also appeared to be using the museum as a site for a Vintage Clothing Fair.

By the time I’d finished looking round the museum the weather had improved considerably, so I wandered up to the station to pick up a train back down the coast to the genteel seaside resort of Grange-over-Sands.

I went for a long walk along the prom in Grange, taking in the stunning views across Morecambe Bay and stopping for a coffee in a very nice prom front café, before heading back to the station and picking up a train back a few stops to Ulverston.

Ulverston turned out to be a very nice historic market town, which also happened to be the birthplace of Stan Laurel (of Laurel and Hardy fame). Needless to say the town takes great pride in its former son (even though he left age 6) and the large museum housed in the former cinema was well worth looking around.

From the museum I followed the signed path out of town and up onto the hill that overlooks the town, capped with its own tower designed to resemble one of Smeaton’s lighthouses from where there were excellent views over to the mountains of the Lake district and down to the shore of Morecambe Bay.

Back down into town and feeling quite knackered I headed back to the station to catch the train back to Barrow, dinner and an early night.