Yvette’s Passionate about Pennine Lancashire
Home is most definitely where the heart is for Yvette Livesey.
As a top model she worked all over the world. As a music entrepreneur and founder of Manchester’s In The City music festival she had and has a truly international lifestyle.
But home is in Pennine Lancashire and Yvette would not have it any other way.
Yvette grew up and went to school here: “My career meant I had to move away but to be able to make the decision to come back is just great and I now wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. I lead a perfectly international lifestyle and live in a small village in Pennine Lancashire at the same time.”
She and her partner TV presenter, music mogul and regeneration consultant Tony Wilson, (who died in 2007), developed a vision for this fabulous area called Dreaming Of Pennine Lancashire.
It’s a vision Yvette wants to share.
She says: “This is an amazing place. You really do get the best of both worlds up here. You get a lifestyle that is hard to imagine getting anywhere else. You’ve got the countryside on your doorstep and Manchester just down the motorway. It’s pretty stunning.
If you want to live here and commute that’s really easy to do; you can live and work here at the same time; and then you’ve got people that come from Manchester and use this as their green playground.
The Pennine Lancashire towns she knows so well were all manufacturing towns. But they’ve undergone a renaissance:
“Now they’re developing new identities, whether as centres for hi-tech manufacturing, tourism, shopping or education. There’s an entrepreneurial culture being built. All these towns have a real vision of what their future is.
Their added bonus is that the countryside is right on the doorstep. The greenery that is all around, the cycle trails, the walking routes, the canals, it’s really beautiful up here. It always has been, it’s just that people haven’t shouted about it.
She says: “If this was America there’d be flags flying. The region has got so much to offer and is incredibly beautiful – and it was the centre of the industrial revolution.”
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