The British seaside: Dud or dud?

A return trip to Saltburn planned for January.

Looking for accommodation for eight (three couples, two kids) in Saltburn or thereabouts. Any recommendations?

How are the roads between York and Whitby at the moment?

(Basically, is it insane to drive from Oxford to Whitby via York this weekend?)

Was a bit bored by Coast this evening.

Communities urged to prepare for coastal flooding

04-Dec-2013

Communities along the north east coast of England, including Yorkshire and the north coast of Norfolk, should prepare for the risk of coastal flooding.
The Environment Agency and Met Office are forecasting that gale-force winds and large waves will combine with spring tides and a large surge later on Thursday and through Friday. This brings a risk of significant coastal flooding.

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/news/151055.aspx

The Northumberland coast worth a visit?

What's a "kiss me quick" hat?

And do I need one?

http://cdn.maximise.co.uk/images/locations/55000-hen-blackpool.jpg

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/6270172-1.jpg

These are...a thing people associate with the beach? I mean I see that they are from the GIS but I'm just so confused.

Well, the British seaside is often associated with bawdiness (see McGill and other saucy postcards). And it's a popular destination for stag & hen parties. And, uh, you wear hats at the beach to protect you from the sun?

Also, sorry, don't want to detract from this question, which I'm afraid I can't really help with: The Northumberland coast worth a visit?

And, uh, you wear hats at the beach to protect you from the sun?

lol

Really, you have to buy them on a pier for maximum effect.

Just today I went to the Tony Ray-Jones exhibit. Clearly don't make enough of the English seaside

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/~/media/RWSCIM/image_galleries/only_in_england/beachy_head_boat_trip.jpg

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/~/media/RWSCIM/image_galleries/only_in_england/blackpool.jpg

^ Great pics.

I have a book of his photos and I love looking through it. Thing is, a lot of seaside towns had professional photographers who worked the season taking pics of people on the beach, in sandcastle contests, fancy dress costumes, passengers disembarking from ships, seaside queens being crowned etc. The seaside town we used to go to had a guy who did this professionally for about half a century and his best stuff was very similar to Tony Ray-Jones. The archive material across the country must be massive.

dud

v rarely been to The Seaside & not been to the coast much in general. assynt, ullapool, mull, skye are amazing tho, mb the most beautiful bits of the uk

its too cold and everyones all naked

Whenever I travel to Cornwall on the train the coastal stretch of the journey is the bit where I have my face pressed to the window, with all the other children, wowing at the natural beauty after we have just travailed the likes of fucking Doncaster and Birmingham. I think you arrive at Plymouth after this bit, so more realness. I was sad to see it getting taken by the sea, but you have to face up to - places like this are going this decade rather than in geological time.

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSp2YNkA2IfiEW-Aooyqk1AK38uJDTjb8g7u_CoD3L1vFDG7k5xXw

nice to see Damo assign Doncaster its full name

The Jurassic Coast in Dorset is very nice. Durdle Door!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Durdle_Door_Overview.jpg

Posted more images of the train tracks at Dawlish and other images of Cornwall/Devon devastation on this thread:

Monster Waves!

What's terrifying is, this is not just the "main route" to Cornwall. This is the ONLY route to Cornwall. Seeing the folly of Beeching again and again and again.

indeed many places are going under - I live on the coast and was very careful to buy a place that is not at sea level! I found the highest hill in town- there's a be floodin in the future!!

I guess this is the place to post about these submerged forests appearing in Wales and Cornwall?

Sorry for Torygraph link, but a friend linked to it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10653204/Submerged-forests-revealed-by-UK-storms.html

Link with pictures: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/pictures-bronze-age-forest-revealed-6730477

http://i4.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article6730673.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/JS32760119-6730673.jpg

Yes yes yes! The submerged forests of Mount's Bay turn up every now and then. The Cornish name for St Michael's Mount is Karrick Loes in Koes which means "the grey rock in the woods" which shows that the bay was above sea level and wooded within Cornish speaking memory.

Forests off Portreath are new though and v v interesting. MAYBE ALL OF LYONESSE WILL RESURFACE. yes.

Bit of Lyonesse. Clearly:

https://twitter.com/Phil_kernow/status/436517602706620416/photo/1

F-me does Cornish speaking memory go deep into the last glacial period? Serious question, not being facetious. Wow ancient forests! That is incredible.

Those are not pre-glaciation forests, as stated in the Telegraph link. They are about 4000 years old which is Bronze age I believe, so yes, Brythonic of some stripe is likely to have been common then, of which Cornish is a surviving branch.

Sorry i was more responding to the image didn't want to click on the link, was only a few thousand years out!

The title of the welsh link says "bronze age" in it! In English, too!

Agan yeth yw nebes koth. Nebes koth, hepken. ;-)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/tankerton_zps4d8f5a30.jpg

Tankerton-on-Sea earlier today (next to Whitstable)

Trying to plan a holiday this summer that is cheap as hell and involves coastal type action for a 12 yr old kid with autism, kinda struggling, but will get there.

maybe somewhere in Wales, you looking for low stimulation?

Hmm sounds like an option worth looking into. Low stim is not essential, unguarded drops are more of a hazard than the odd sensory overload. Used to rent a cottage in Newquay, but the price kept going up ...

maybe have a look round Barmouth area on the west coast, feel like it's not too cliffy but some nice beaches and probly not crazy expensive

We're just booked a Northumberland coastal holiday that seemed very reasonable. No idea how nice it is going to be - we've heard positive things - but is alongside beaches rather than cliffs. I guess it depends where you are travelling from.

I have the sudden inexplicable desire to go to some godforsaken faded seaside glamour bit of the Essex coast.

Like, Shoeburyness or Walton-on-the-Naze or somewhere. Where has a good pier?

I'm going to yarmouth on Friday who's gonna stop me

Which Yarmouth? I <3 the Isle of Wight Yarmouth but not sure about East Anglia.

Essex walks website recommends me Clacton-on-Sea to Walton-on-the-Naze, 7 mile walk taking in TWO piers. Has anyone done this? It's a sea wall, so it should be pretty much flat, the whole way.

(I confess, half the reason I want to go to Walton-on-the-Naze is the name, and the other half is Tracy Jacks.)

Did you ever do The Broomway?

No, it seemed semi-suicidal to attempt by myself.

Kinda want to do the Saxon church walk on the sea wall at Bradwell (another Macfarlane rec) but the train is quite some way away.

There look to be guided walks.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/apr/15/britains-coastline-captured-in-atmospheric-photos-for-rnli-contest-in-pictures

I'm not a big fan of guided walks, really. They never seem to go at the right speed.

Those are beautiful photos; that last one of Sennen looks like a John Martin painting. Which I guess Sennen often does, in a storm.

"They never seem to go at the right speed."

^ Yes, this.

bb, I mean the norfolk yarmouth, as it's near me. I'll probably wander over to hemsby or somewhere once I've checked in at the hotel.

Can anyone recommend a cottage by the (UK) coast, that might be nice/available towards the end of this month ... ?

budget?

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3414940?s=rPlF