― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/leysdown5.jpghttp://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/leysdown6.jpg
i dont like brighton so much, its too big for its boots
i wonder about lincolnshire and norfolk, as i am often wont to do
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/tcg/My%20Pictures/Southwold%20Lighthouse.jpghttp://www.picturesofengland.com/imagesUpload/thumbs500/Southwold-10675296571.jpg
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I like Whitstable - proper Kentish seaside town only populated by retired people and locals out for a ruck. The man in the chippy there has eight layers of congelaed kebab fat stuck to the hair on his arm.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link
what about margate? i hear it is cockernee-on-sea, but now the front line on the daily express's war against balkanistas?
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link
It was ace. The seafood was magnificent.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tag (Tag), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Whitstable does indeed to good seafood and has a nice pub actually on the beach itself:
http://www.oysta.fsnet.co.uk/wbeach.jpg
Porthleven in Cornwall has a great harbour:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/porthleven/16.jpghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/porthleven/17.jpghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/porthleven/2.jpg
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― jel, Thursday, 29 April 2004 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
For a reason I cannot fathom several people from Billericay in Essex ran away to Swanage in the mid 80's. I was friends with the runaways and always enjoyed my visits. It was my first taste of adventure.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Moz (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I remember being a bit disappointed by the one at Plymouth, but loving the Weston-Super-Mare one.
I am realising that the most recent game of crazy golf I played at any of the above was around 12 years ago, and my WSMCG experiences are now more than a quarter of a century in the past.
I wonder whether any of them survived the 1990s. And whether I did.
The worst thing, and the most typical thing, about Sidmouth is that it has a putting green where the Crazy Golf should be.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Lymington: Smart and yachty, but some kind of sweetness saves it from being too rah. Search especially: the old salt flats just out of town.
Padstow and surrounding: gives a feeling of an older pagan England underneath the tourist crap and Rick Stein.
― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link
We had cider adventures by the millpond.
"I think they were paid to leave town by Teresa Gorman."
Billericay is oddly connected with politics. It used to be the constituency that declared first in a general election (but not for many years now), plus we have the legacy of Harvey Proctor and the evil under the sun of Theresa Gorman.
Appologies for going off thread, Billericay is nowhere near the seaside. That's why Southend was invented.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Dislikes: Whitstable (no proper sea front; not keen on the high street), Hastings (had a rough air), Margate (ditto), Southport (no proper sea front, desolate pier)
Inbetweens: Cromer, Southsea, Herne Bay, Eastbourne, Great Yarmouth, Maryport, Silloth
Dimly remembered likes: Minehead, Scarborough
Dimly remembered dislikes:
Dimly remembered inbetweens: Morecambe, Ilfracombe
Cannot remember: Ramsgate, Littlehampton
My favourite of all is Welsh: Tenby (and has a harbour!)
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
I have happy memories of Bude, Westward Ho! and Swanage
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:19 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Other English towns with punctuation in? we may have done this already.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:32 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― David (David), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:03 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah, Barmouth. This thread is making me plan summer holidays.
― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:11 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 14:16 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I had a lovely time in Scarborough and Whitby years ago.
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.xs4all.nl/~keizee/images/Dawlish_1a.jpg
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:08 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.torquayengland.com/566x425TeignmouthPier2.jpg
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.pepes.force9.co.uk/stock-photos/spitchwick.JPG
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:14 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:31 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Amos, Friday, 30 April 2004 09:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charles Dexter (Holey), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
My favourite English seaside town is Lyme Regis.
― metalmickey, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 30 April 2004 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 1 May 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Saturday, 1 May 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― the pinefox, Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:26 (nineteen 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