The Seaside: Classic Or Dud?

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The continuous use of the words "dump", "shoddy", and "depressing" to describe English seaside towns has me laughing nonstop.

― Sean, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Don't believe the hype! Broadstairs = ultra-dud, though Ramsgate is even worse. Margate has lots of places for me to shovel my pennies into silly arcade games, and a theme park where the rides break down all the time. Therefore: classic. Best seaside town name: Dumpton, right nextdoor to Broadstairs. Yes, really, go check a map if you don't believe me.
Kate: Walton-On-The-Naze isn't that great. Apart from the ghost train on the pier. I used to live in Frinton, you see, wot is a short walk away from WOTN.

― DG, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The idea of English beaches seems silly as a Sahara cross country ski resort.

― Mike Hanle y, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

filey.

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 21 September 2002 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

My parents lived in Weston-super-mare when I was born, and we went back there about 100 times a year* ever after. The tide there goes out about three miles, and throughout every summer an average of two people a week have to be rescued from the thick black mud.

*may be an exaggeration, but it felt like it

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 21 September 2002 11:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've not seen the sea in years.

I do like the seaside. I would like to live there in winter. If I could transfer everything and everyone I know to the coast, then I would.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 21 September 2002 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

CLASSIC.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 21 September 2002 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

ten months pass...

Boys who go to the beach sans trunks&towel: classic ou dud?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 24 July 2003 04:05 (twenty years ago) link

When I was a kid, my Dad would sometimes cheerfully ask on a Saturday morning : "Who wants to go to the seaside today?!" and my mother would look horrified and silently mouthe "say no, for god's sake say no!" to my brother and I because going to the seaside = a day at Weston-super-Mare.

It's a bleak place, really. I remember it being very sand-in-the-picnic-lunch windy all the time. And there were donkeys.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 24 July 2003 05:00 (twenty years ago) link

I live by the seaside. I see ships and ferries from my living room. And a SEA FORT.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 July 2003 07:53 (twenty years ago) link

Boys who go to the beach sans trunks&towel: classic ou dud?

This is Gareth, non?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 07:54 (twenty years ago) link

Weston-super-Mare was my only experience of the seaside until I was about seven or eight. I thought all beaches were muddy and brown and smelt of donkey shit.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 07:56 (twenty years ago) link

jane suck (= greatest punk rock writer of all, sounds 77-78) grew up in weston-super-mare

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:00 (twenty years ago) link

So did Jeffrey Archer

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:25 (twenty years ago) link

AKA the 2nd greatest punk rock writer ever.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:27 (twenty years ago) link

The Isle of Wight has some nice secluded beaches, i.e. Steephill Cove.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:30 (twenty years ago) link

Sand Bay, just around the coast from Weston Super Mare = much nicer, if I remember correctly.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 24 July 2003 08:35 (twenty years ago) link

CJ is OTM. Climb over the hill north of Sandown (it's a bit of a trek but there's a pub by the monument on top) and drop down to the luvverly sandy crescent of Whitecliff Bay.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 July 2003 11:19 (twenty years ago) link

This is Gareth, non?

oui, et bnw

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 24 July 2003 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

I know the pub of which the robster speaks - it's the Culverhaven, isn't it?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

Can't remember the name. But it would make sense, what with being on Culver Down and all.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

Whitecliff Bay - Culver cliff in the background

http://www.goodbeachguide.co.uk/Images/beaches/seast/whitecliff.gif

― robster (robster), Thursday, 24 July 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

My parents owned a caravan in Sand Bay for many years. I can't begin to imagine how many weekends we spent there. It's pretty dull, but there is less mud than Weston.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 24 July 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

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