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You finding it hard to understand my accent?”, says Peter Stevenson, halfway through our conversation about his home town of Maryport on the west Cumbrian coast. “I can tell,” he adds, laughing.
I think the giveaway was the fact I thought Peter was telling me about a lido when he was actually explaining the history of the Maryport lighthouse, the oldest cast-iron lighthouse in the UK, captured by the renowned artist LS Lowry in several of his paintings.
Lighthouse, lido - they can sound very similar