An English Seaside Town

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Cromer's newsagents stock an astonishingly wide range of porn.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago) link

Crab-related?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:44 (twenty years ago) link

My psychotic aunt lives in Cromer.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago) link

Liz, oddly not.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago) link

this thread makes me sad for reasons i can't explain

― Dave Amos, Friday, 30 April 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

Anything with fossils automatically gets my vote.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:45 (twenty years ago) link

On the subject of beach huts, doesn't Robert Wyatt live in a beach hut... in Skegness or somewhere?

― Charles Dexter (Holey), Friday, 30 April 2004 10:04 (twenty years ago) link

She may have done, Caitlin. I shall ask her.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

I lived in Brighton for a year. I loved being by the sea and I loved the Full Moon (or is the half moon?) bar - that was cool. I didn't much like the architecture or the insufferably smug inhabitants but I guess nowhere's perfect.

My favourite English seaside town is Lyme Regis.

― metalmickey, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

In summer 1994 my family and I went to Bognor Regis for a daytrip. We ate chips by the seafront. Within fifteen minutes of our arrival an IRA bomb went off in the town. We went home. Not my fondest teenage memory...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

I cannot easily believe that anyone hasn't been to Whitby... [yet, I've never been to Cromer; may partly be to do with the distance factor] If you haven't been, get packing... :) It's probably the holiday place I've been to most often, partly as it's relatively near; i.e. on the same north-eastern coast as Sunderland where I have lived. But also, as it is so evocative a place.

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 30 April 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago) link

i have been to Whitby. we took a boat trip and bought fresh crab amongst other things. it were grand.

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 1 May 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link

Man, I gotta second pinefox on Cromer. Ain't nothin' like a rainy June day, a princess from Luxemborg and a huge fucking spliff in Cromer.

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Saturday, 1 May 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago) link

I wouldn't know about #2 and #3, but I agree about the rainy June day.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago) link

I like Liz's last photo very much. It evokes the British seaside experience better than anything else I have seen.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

cromer

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 18 July 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

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

seven years pass...

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

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