{"id":6100,"date":"2021-05-30T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:23:16","slug":"furness-abbey-and-ulverston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=6100","title":{"rendered":"Barrow-in-Furness, Furness Abbey and Ulverston"},"content":{"rendered":"
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28th – 30th May 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With lockdown easing, Granny wanted to get back to Barrow-in-Furness to catch up with friends and relatives so we came along too. We were heading up for the Bank Holiday Weekend so whilst the roads would be really busy on Friday night once Callum had finished school, we would take the hit so we have a full day on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recalling childhood memories of trips back up North, we were armed with a tin of fruit drops, the ones that were coated in icing sugar! A fav of my Nan and Grandad!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We left home about 4pm and arrived at the Premier Inn in Barrow<\/a> just before midnight. It took 5 hours to reach Junction 15 of the M6 (the half way point of the drive). As we approached Lancaster, Sat Nav also told us Barrow was a mere 10 miles away as the crow flies … yet we still have 47 miles to go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday morning, we met up with mum’s cousin for breakfast before heading into Ulverston. Stop-off at Lindow’s Jewellers<\/a> as Mum wanted to get her watch fixed and catch up with Ken. There may have been a necklace that caught my eye too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterwards, we started the Ulverston Treasure Trail<\/a> and saw some of the sights in the town of Ulverston. Mum hadn’t seen the Laurel & Hardy Statues and we were taken down some lanes that I hadn’t been down previously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also came across several replica Furness Railway benches dotted around the town. We bought Dad a set of bench ends for his 60th Birthday and it took pride of place in his garden – a piece of home at home. However, Dad had painted the bench green rather than the blue. Mum (with David’s help) had just got the ends shot-blasted and repainted locally so it once again has pride of place in their garden.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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We noticed the trail was going to take us out of town, and we had booked a slot to visit Furness Abbey in the afternoon. We would try and get back out to complete this trail tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, we needed to head across to Furness Abbey via Cumbrian Cow Ice Cream<\/a> to keep us going! Aunty Kath had recommended here to Mum several times and Ken had said how good it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With COVID, they had set themselves up as a Drive Through and they had opened up a field you could park up in. It’s not every day you follow a Ferrari into a place for Ice Cream! Ice cream was really good though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The weather was good and a perfect day to visit the Abbey. The last time we had visited was thirteen years ago in 2008; Mum hadn’t been since she was at school!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some repair work was taking place as the walls were starting to separate and needed to stop the walls falling down. There was only one other family visiting at this time so the place was remarkably quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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