But who am I to moan since they are clearly making a better job of saving an old cinema than Katy and I did in Walthamstow.
The best thing about it was the screen at the centre showing the film about the piano movers, causing fits of laughter to ring throughout the building.
Ulverston has some fantastic shops, the best camera shop I have come across in Cumbria, lots of interesting odds and ends shops and one or two genuine antique shops.
Just the sort of place I loved to spend time in during my youth.
Then there was the Four Pence, a rather wonderful cafe that uses shoemaker's lasts to prop open the door, has at least half a dozen interesting clocks (one is even a cuckoo clock) that chime at different times and sells everything that isn't nailed down (excepting Alice).
But probably the most extraordinary thing about the town is the vast quantity of chip shops it has. I counted four but there may be more.
Jonathan Brind