antony1969 Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Reading yesterday about Margate and Rhyl are they really the worst seaside resorts in Britain . I would have to say my personal worst has to be Blackpool , dirty , seedy and full of drunks . Favourite has to be Woolacombe , Devon . Any thoughts on coastal resorts to avoid and why ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Blackpool does seem to attract a lot of dossers........................ I much prefer Weymouth...............or Traffic lights on sea as its now known since the Olympic's *-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antony1969 Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Nowt on east coast to excite you Dave ? Grimsby ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 antony1969 - 2013-08-12 12:11 PM Nowt on east coast to excite you Dave ? Grimsby ? We're 10mins from the sea at Chapel St Leonards, and have Skeg just down the road, which is kinda kitsch now days :D............. you can admire the windfarm whilst you sunbathe *-).........further afield we like Whitby B-)..... and the places along coast road around the top of Norfolk are nice though the road is tight in places ;-)............... Although this time of year we tend to turn right and head up into the Wolds ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Hunstanton - the only resort on the East coast where you can watch the sun set - is a very pleasant town but like all such places gets a bit manic for 6 weeks and BHs. Wells next the Sea is an interesting small seaside town, as are Cromer and Sheringham. Fleetwood we didn't warm too but that was a few years back and it may have changed. Grimsby is aptly named! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkc Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 antony1969 - 2013-08-12 9:03 AM Reading yesterday about Margate and Rhyl are they really the worst seaside resorts in Britain . I would have to say my personal worst has to be Blackpool , dirty , seedy and full of drunks . Favourite has to be Woolacombe , Devon . Any thoughts on coastal resorts to avoid and why ? Not exactly a resort I know, I once mistyped the u in Hull with an e into my Satnav. It still took me there. Joking honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antony1969 Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Scarborough North Shore is decent but parking is a problem now and Cayton Bay up the road . Of course Cornwall is fantastic but getting the motor down some of those tight roads is a nightmare , Harlyn Bay , Cornwall near Padstein is another fave for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retread24800 Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Ilfracombe, full of Scouse layabouts, and generally seedy, when one of your politicians was talking about decay and quoted Blackpool as being full of cheap B&B or claimants castles I thought , typical never been to the South West and as for that Hurst Monstrosity................. http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2004/08/ilfracombe-devon/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antony1969 Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Retread24800 - 2013-08-12 2:10 PMIlfracombe, full of Scouse layabouts, and generally seedy, when one of your politicians was talking about decay and quoted Blackpool as being full of cheap B&B or claimants castles I thought , typical never been to the South West and as for that Hurst Monstrosity................. http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2004/08/ilfracombe-devon/Have to say your right about Ilfracombe , a once great destination left to rot . Same as a lot of seaside towns with money pumped in it could be great again . Wetherspoons or one of the other big pub chains are planning on building a brand new big family pub near the front so maybe they know something we don't . Maybe some EU millions heading for Devon ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malc d Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 pkc - 2013-08-12 1:42 PM antony1969 - 2013-08-12 9:03 AM Reading yesterday about Margate and Rhyl are they really the worst seaside resorts in Britain . I would have to say my personal worst has to be Blackpool , dirty , seedy and full of drunks . Favourite has to be Woolacombe , Devon . Any thoughts on coastal resorts to avoid and why ? Not exactly a resort I know, I once mistyped the u in Hull with an e into my Satnav. It still took me there. Joking honestly. That's an awful long way out of your way. I did actually go to Hell once - it's in Norway - not far from Trondheim. ( Honestly ) ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Man Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Blackpool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkc Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Went to Southport on CCC holiday site couple of years ago, quite pleasant town, but it's a hull of a walk to the sea sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Leake Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Tracker - 2013-08-12 1:04 PM Hunstanton - the only resort on the East coast where you can watch the sun set - is a very pleasant town but like all such places gets a bit manic for 6 weeks and BHs. Wells next the Sea is an interesting small seaside town, as are Cromer and Sheringham. Fleetwood we didn't warm too but that was a few years back and it may have changed. Grimsby is aptly named! I'm with you there Tracker. They don't call Cromer The Gem of the Norfolk Coast for nothing. Fact is its far and away the best in the UK. You should try the ice cream from the shop just near the RNLI museum and for that matter visit the museum. It's maned by the wives of the lifeboat crew and they are a font of information. Did I mention that I was born and lived for a long time in Cromer? By the way you'll find Leakes Caravan Site in near by East Runton. Still bears our name but is no longer owned by the family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 There is a place called Helland in Cornwall - not far from Blisland - on Bodmin Moor where weird things happen - allegedly! Talking of Cornwall - Bude is pleasant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retread24800 Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 North Cornwall, Avoid Tresoddit, home to The second homer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donna miller Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Rhyl has got to be my least favourite, many many years ago we (Mr Donna and Me) were delivering Christmas trees for B&Q all over Wales. We decided to book into a B&B one night as we were fed up with sleeping in the cab. We found a B&B on the front and booked in, the owner then told us he wasn't putting the heating on for just one night and that it was an extra fiver on top of the advertised price because we were having a "sea view" room...........It was the middle of December and that foggy you couldn't see the road out front never mind the sea. :D :D As expected we turned straight round and found somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antony1969 Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 pkc - 2013-08-12 3:49 PM Went to Southport on CCC holiday site couple of years ago, quite pleasant town, but it's a hull of a walk to the sea sometimes. Your right it is a pleasant town , I'm not the greatest shopper in the world but even I coped with half an hour shopping . Only downside without sounding snobby is the great big Butlins/Pontins site , not for me but others obviously enjoy it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antony1969 Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Another east coast beauty is Robin Hoods Bay , if your a bit geeky and take a hammer to crack open a few rocks it's a fossil hunters paradise . I cracked one open and found scribbled " Tracker Waz Ere " fossilised inside , he really is that old . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Thanks Antony I suppose for you anywhere is better than the views of Mount Udder - the mind boggles at that image - do you listen to music and eat while you crack - the Nutcracker Suet perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 antony1969 - 2013-08-12 6:53 PM Another east coast beauty is Robin Hoods Bay , if your a bit geeky and take a hammer to crack open a few rocks it's a fossil hunters paradise . I cracked one open and found scribbled " Tracker Waz Ere " fossilised inside , he really is that old . That's one of his old postcards to another of Chatterbox Neanderthals ;-).................back in the days when Neanderthals were.................Neanderthals :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwendolyn Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 antony1969 - 2013-08-12 3:11 PMRetread24800 - 2013-08-12 2:10 PMIlfracombe, full of Scouse layabouts, and generally seedy, when one of your politicians was talking about decay and quoted Blackpool as being full of cheap B&B or claimants castles I thought , typical never been to the South West and as for that Hurst Monstrosity................. http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2004/08/ilfracombe-devon/Have to say your right about Ilfracombe , a once great destination left to rot . Same as a lot of seaside towns with money pumped in it could be great again . Wetherspoons or one of the other big pub chains are planning on building a brand new big family pub near the front so maybe they know something we don't . Maybe some EU millions heading for Devon ?It was rumoured, some years ago, that Jamie Oliver was going to open some restaurants in Ilfracombe and do what Rick Stein did for Padstow. Now would that have improved matters? I recall reading an article urging people to buy property ‘now’, before the Jamie Oliver boom takes off. Never happened then?Agree though, it has the makings of a lovely town with a bit of dosh spent on it.See this:http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/nov/14/lets-move-to-ilfracombe-devon?INTCMP=SRCH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 pelmetman - 2013-08-12 6:57 PM That's one of his old postcards to another of Chatterbox Neanderthals ;-).................back in the days when Neanderthals were.................Neanderthals :D It is a testament to modern medicine that you can remember that far back Dave! Ouch - there goes another knuckle - must learn to stand upright! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retread24800 Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Gwendolyn - 2013-08-12 8:01 PMantony1969 - 2013-08-12 3:11 PMRetread24800 - 2013-08-12 2:10 PMIlfracombe, full of Scouse layabouts, and generally seedy, when one of your politicians was talking about decay and quoted Blackpool as being full of cheap B&B or claimants castles I thought , typical never been to the South West and as for that Hurst Monstrosity................. http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2004/08/ilfracombe-devon/ Have to say your right about Ilfracombe , a once great destination left to rot . Same as a lot of seaside towns with money pumped in it could be great again . Wetherspoons or one of the other big pub chains are planning on building a brand new big family pub near the front so maybe they know something we don't . Maybe some EU millions heading for Devon ?It was rumoured, some years ago, that Jamie Oliver was going to open some restaurants in Ilfracombe and do what Rick Stein did for Padstow. Now would that have improved matters? I recall reading an article urging people to buy property ‘now’, before the Jamie Oliver boom takes off. Never happened then?Agree though, it has the makings of a lovely town with a bit of dosh spent on it.See this:http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/nov/14/lets-move-to-ilfracombe-devon?INTCMP=SRCH Well I read the bit from the Guardian and didn't recognise the place, as one of the comments noted in the 80's there was a downturn in the local economy, Hotels were going belly up and the hotelliers invented dole tourism, so after advertising Ilfracombes' attractions, cheap B&B's, no employment oportunities only 3 plod, etc. in the press the town was filled with new residents, Alkies, druggies, and the work-shy, lots of rumours about regeneration but nothing happened after the three Bra cups (have a look at the sea front and guess ;-) ) Damien Hurst opened a restaurant on the quay, and donated a statue of a partially disembowelled pregnant woman..Must have used one of the local single Mum's as inspiration for that, Jamie Oliver, the Cross Bristol Channel Ferry all came and died in the wilderness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antony1969 Posted August 12, 2013 Author Share Posted August 12, 2013 Retread24800 - 2013-08-12 7:21 PMGwendolyn - 2013-08-12 8:01 PMantony1969 - 2013-08-12 3:11 PMRetread24800 - 2013-08-12 2:10 PMIlfracombe, full of Scouse layabouts, and generally seedy, when one of your politicians was talking about decay and quoted Blackpool as being full of cheap B&B or claimants castles I thought , typical never been to the South West and as for that Hurst Monstrosity................. http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2004/08/ilfracombe-devon/Have to say your right about Ilfracombe , a once great destination left to rot . Same as a lot of seaside towns with money pumped in it could be great again . Wetherspoons or one of the other big pub chains are planning on building a brand new big family pub near the front so maybe they know something we don't . Maybe some EU millions heading for Devon ?It was rumoured, some years ago, that Jamie Oliver was going to open some restaurants in Ilfracombe and do what Rick Stein did for Padstow. Now would that have improved matters? I recall reading an article urging people to buy property ‘now’, before the Jamie Oliver boom takes off. Never happened then?Agree though, it has the makings of a lovely town with a bit of dosh spent on it.See this:http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/nov/14/lets-move-to-ilfracombe-devon?INTCMP=SRCH Well I read the bit from the Guardian and didn't recognise the place, as one of the comments noted in the 80's there was a downturn in the local economy, Hotels were going belly up and the hotelliers invented dole tourism, so after advertising Ilfracombes' attractions, cheap B&B's, no employment oportunities only 3 plod, etc. in the press the town was filled with new residents, Alkies, druggies, and the work-shy, lots of rumours about regeneration but nothing happened after the three Bra cups (have a look at the sea front and guess ;-) ) Damien Hurst opened a restaurant on the quay, and donated a statue of a partially disembowelled pregnant woman..Must have used one of the local single Mum's as inspiration for that, Jamie Oliver, the Cross Bristol Channel Ferry all came and died in the wilderness.That Hurst statue is horrendous , better suited to outside a hospital / university somewhere than its location in Ilfracombe .The thing with Ilfracombe is that the tourists are already in the area in Woolacombe less than five minutes away so if the local council were brave enough to invest in the area I'm sure the tourists would go back to Ilfracombe . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwendolyn Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Retread24800 - 2013-08-12 6:25 PM North Cornwall, Avoid Tresoddit, home to The second homer. Posy Simmonds fan then? Showing your Guardian reading credentials? I loved that cartoon series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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