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Kit wrote:The tourism bit certainly makes sense especially with the time

Where I came from was a thriving tourist place until the great war, and less between the wars , after that it became a virtual backwater slum.

The UK almost all over, Kit. Curiosity towns that were formerly host to throngs of tens of thousands ecaping the city at weekends and bank holidays in particular. Whitley Bay/Tynemouth automatically springs to mind

Bert wrote:

Kit wrote:The tourism bit certainly makes sense especially with the time

Where I came from was a thriving tourist place until the great war, and less between the wars , after that it became a virtual backwater slum.

The UK almost all over, Kit. Curiosity towns that were formerly host to throngs of tens of thousands ecaping the city at weekends and bank holidays in particular. Whitley Bay/Tynemouth automatically springs to mind

I guess it was boom to bust and death all those men was it bert?

where I grew up , it was with the reminents of a past age , 2 old cinemas that were converted to arcades (shopping and fruit machines) , a ripped up old electric railway , a derilict pier , an area that used to have a ride that was converted to tennis courts

It was like , there was once a great place, but it went in a flash

I live in Clacton on Sea and we're lucky, the Victorian pier still stands and the theatre on it dates back to 1907.
I adore the thing and spend a lot of the summer on it.


http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ClactonPier.html

Mad Tony wrote:I live in Clacton on Sea and we're lucky, the Victorian pier still stands and the theatre on it dates back to 1907.
I adore the thing and spend a lot of the summer on it.


http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ClactonPier.html

Thats a lovely pier tony , I live not far from clevedon pier , the struts are from the GWR when they changed the gauge

Marvelous!

I used to love holidays as a kid.the cockle and shrimp man selling their stuff on the beach. and you could buy tea in enamel jugs on the beach from the tea van. no water in the caravan so me and my cousin had the jobs of taking the big platic container to the water tap
ahh happy days.
nothing sadder than seeing a run down holiday resort.

19th century

you may scoff Abdul, but it will be our kind who will survive any cataclym that may befalll us in the future.

eh, dont be daft,, i'm just saying they're 19th century that's all, we'l survive fuck all, we'll all be dead in 50 years

I WOULD be able to organise my family to survive by the simple fact that i have holidayed 2 weeks in a caravan on th east coast.

one big tsunami and you're all fucked then

barring a tsunami, cos lincolnshire is flat, we would be ok

as long as your 19th century groins are okay then yeah, i'd agree with you

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