I'm aware of Child's Ballads, Don...now, can we call "curtains" on that one? :-)>
Here's one of the fine day-trips I made whilst living in Manchester...
WEEK OF JUNE 30-JULY 6
Poem 127 of 230: TO SPACIOUS SOUTHPORT - AUTUMN 2000

Most of the leaves
    Of poplar trees
Had fallen free
    When to the sea,
By bus then train,
    In stop/start rain,
I headed-down
    From Radcliffe Town.

After Wigan,
    The train began
To pass across
    What to me was
A coastal plain
    To see again -
With varied crops,
    And grazing op's.

From the station,
    Reconstruction
Soon came to eye
    As I walked, by
The gallery,
    Toward the sea,
And thereby thought:
    "Spacious Southport."

(And, these days, there, you may even bump into a fellow goatee/folkie of mine - Sedayne.)

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