― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:01 (twenty years ago) link
I have happy memories of Bude, Westward Ho! and Swanage
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/cms/CMS_Images/user/Barry%20Island%20Beach%20-%20web.jpg
http://www.thegalloper.com/backstories/graphics/septbarry18.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/fun/ecards/images/scenes/dlloyd_barryisland300.jpg
http://freespace.virgin.net/fun.harbour/allcash.jpg
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago) link
Other English towns with punctuation in? we may have done this already.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago) link
There are some abbreviating apostrophes (e.g. John O'Groats), and it feels as though there should be some posessive ones too, but who can tell whether a town's real name is, say, King's Lynn or Kings Lynn? I'm guessing Mr. Huntsman will be able to tell me.
I can't think of any full stops outside abbreviations (e.g. Ottery St. Mary), and I can't think of any commas or question marks at all.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/list_of_interesting_or_unusual_place_names
My favourite new place name is Frisby on the Wreake (near Melton Mowbray of the PORK PIES) in Leicestershire. So now I can be proud of something from my birth county.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
My trip to King's Lynn last year was frustrating and soaking: the game we travelled to see was rained off. I rather liked it, it had the wonkiest church I've ever seen (the biblical advice about buildng your house on the rock came to mind, but I thought it better to keep my mouth shut). It didn't feel like a seaside town.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
I have a fondness for Blackpool and Skegness, but if I want to go to the seaside I would always rather go to Wales. I've not been to the south coast much, I can't picture any towns there except Bournemouth, which is okay.
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:07 (twenty years ago) link
Ah, Barmouth. This thread is making me plan summer holidays.
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
Is the bottom of Beachy Head just rocks and sea? Someone should concrete over the bottom bit and put a nice cafe there, that'd stop people. Either that or a comically-placed branch half way down to catch people.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
Still, Cromer: the pier, the great stone seafront, the bookshops, the pubs, the fish & chips, the memories, the storms and rain. All the usual things you have all been on about. What else?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
I walk along this wall every day on my way to the train station.
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
I had a lovely time in Scarborough and Whitby years ago.
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.xs4all.nl/~keizee/images/Dawlish_1a.jpg
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link
It's a pretty fucking spectaculr bit of coastline, actually. From the sea it looks alien.
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.torquayengland.com/566x425TeignmouthPier2.jpg
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.pepes.force9.co.uk/stock-photos/spitchwick.JPG
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
I love the Isle of Wight, especially Ventnor. It's weird and creepy and strange without feeling rough.
I really want to go to Whitby. Someone from HSA's department went to the Goth Festival there and said it was lovely. The bits I saw on Time Team or whichever archeology programme dug it up looked lovely.
― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
I'm from Cleethorpes. The sea is brown there. Here's a picture, admittedly on a foggy day.
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:31 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.north-yorkshire-moors.freeserve.co.uk/Bay2.jpg
http://www.middlewoodfarm.fsnet.co.uk/openings.jpg
http://www.jorgetutor.com/greatbritain/inglaterra/ne/robinhoodbay/robinhoodbay1.jpg
http://www.eimc.brad.ac.uk/~ijpalmer/EIMCWhitby2002/RobinHood06.jpg
...which has mondo fossils just lying around on the beach. It's ace. But very twee indeed.
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:34 (twenty years ago) link
My favourite English seaside town is Lyme Regis.
― metalmickey, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 30 April 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 1 May 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Saturday, 1 May 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link
― the pinefox, Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
What's Portsmouth like? I'm contemplating heading down there for a weekend, particularly to see the ships and the victory.
― F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 13:39 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a shithole.
but the old ships are cool. worth a daytrip not a weekend imo.
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^southampton fan
― markers you think (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, it's a fair cop. happy to admit that southampton is also a shithole.
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
cheers, noted
― F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
is Portsmouth really just a shithole? I was thinking of taking a ferry up there next month, just for a couple of days, to look around (and tbh to buy some british candies before brexit makes those hard to come by on the continent).
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 22 September 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
It certainly has that reputation. Plus it's full of drunken sailors, earl-y in the morning and 24/7.
― Zach Same (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 September 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
I am currently standing at the end of Hastings pier in the rain, guarding some balloons.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 22 September 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link