Southport Hotel, Southport Hotels & Accommodation

Southport is probably best known for it's Victorian town centre but, as I have said on the homepage, for me, the best parts of Southport are those hidden away and only really known by the old sandbaggers. As a child one of my most favourite haunts was the Botanic Gardens in Churchtown. A wonderful Victorian playground with new twists on every turn.

Churchtown itself has a unique beauty, an old and peaceful past when the summers were long and hot and traffic was unknown. Sadly those days are long gone but the splendid buildings remain thanks, in the main, to the restoration and preservation of the Hesketh family. To enable me to take the photographs below required me to drag my family out of their beds at a ridiculous hour of the morning to grab that brief moment when the evening has passed and the morning has yet to begin. For that moment is precious, there is no traffic and you can clearly hear the birds singing to greet the morning sun. Occasionally a solitary person will walk by and say hello while walking their dog. A calm and pleasing walk through the gardens you will begin to see the first signs of an awakening and, within minutes, we are back into the hustle and bustle that is modern day life.