Life in the town with no high street or railway station - but locals 'wouldn't live anywhere else'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Sandwiched in between Wigan, Liverpool and Preston, Skelmersdale is a town which was developed in the 1960s. After the Second World War there was a chronic shortage of housing so the government announced plans to build a series of 'new towns'.

But it is remarkably different from many other towns in the UK. There is no high street, no railway station and 'hardly any pubs' - but locals say they wouldn't live anywhere else.

The lack of typical features you'd normally find in a Lancashire town are what makes Skelmersdale - or Skem as it is affectionately (or otherwise) known - unique. "We haven't got a high street," Tracy, who has lived in Skelmersdale since she was seven, said. "We've got nothing.

There's hardly any pubs and the pubs we do have don't serve food - I think there's only one that does." There is also no town hall, no cinema anymore, and residents fear that they will soon have no swimming baths, reports LancsLive.