Weird seaside towns

[Stubbs ftm]

Google jaywick in clacton, god what a hole

That tv show on the place was an eye opener

Once had to go to Harwich for work, that was an odd place.

 

[Gazoliver]

Hoi! Outside! Now!

For such a large town it's done almost nothing to embrace it's sea front location. Well apart from the greasy spoon at the end of the promenade that's been there for years.

Decent enough high street but as you say there's nothing on the front.
Went up with my mates who were going to the golf at Carnoustie a few wks back. We were staying in perth so I thought I'd nip down to Kirkcaldy on the train to watch the Raith Hearts cup game. 230pm I was outside the ground wondering where everybody was....little did I know that it had been moved to East Fife's ground, a £20 taxi away! I went on the piss round Kirkaldy instead.

 

[Latka Gravas]

No mention of Sunderland yet? Takes some outweirding does Sunderland.

Dear god

 

[MickeyV]

I do too, and I've been to many worse places, but you have to admit it is weird though. Smallest cathedral in the world. Crocodile Rock. Cafés from the 50s. Ferry dumps you in the middle of nowhere, miles from town.

Thanks for the like @Dinsdale, but I got Maryport mixed up with Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae!
But it is genuinely weird!

 

[Typhoonftm]

Nowt is as weird as Shields

I'd have been severely disappointed if this wasn't the first reply.

 

[yorkyexile]

Britain has some really odd seaside towns.

Mablethorpe. What a weird place.
Not quite as weird as Maryport like.

Finport you mean?
Redcar is one strange strange hole

Withernsea near Hull.

Sister in law lives there and it`s a wierd hole. Half the natives permanantly walk round as pirates

 

[Scorer]

Fleetwood, my nine year old son waited until we'd left for fear of upsetting the locals before declaring he didn't want to go back because it was desolate! Might make him go again this season though!
The Haven caravan park was something else, some class examples of parenting including one woman, catastrophically pissed, stumbling back to her caravan being chased by someone marginally less drunk imploring her to go back to the bar to collect her young children!

Silloth=Shithole.
booked a caravan there years back.
never been anywhere like it.

Sunny though! Although I've been half a dozen times and it's always rained.

Barrow in Furness. Not quite a tourist hot spot but a complete dump.

Went there for a friends birthday. Weird, weird people. Bloke behind our table necked a pint and then ate the pint pot.

 

[gizmoganzee]

Barmouth and a lot of Welsh seaside towns are very rough looking.

By the sea should be bright and happy, but apparently not.

 

[Scorer]

Barmouth and a lot of Welsh seaside towns are very rough looking.

By the sea should be bright and happy, but apparently not.

Barmouth is basically Birmingham by the sea.

 

[stephen cartwright]

Spittle

 

[Deleted member 37458]

Seaham is ok it's the people who are cuckoo.

 

[Dinsdale]

Thanks for the like @Dinsdale, but I got Maryport mixed up with Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae!
But it is genuinely weird!

haha I did wonder what Cathederal you were going on about, butI believe there used to be a ferry across the Ellen at one point and the cafe's described are on point

 

[safcrhys.]

Whitehaven.

 

[woodlebert]

It's not too bad, but when compared to the next places up and down the coast it's comparatively dreadful.

Where would you recommend in the area?

 

[pillars of hercules]

Kings Lynn. Not a beach in sight

 

[AndyGray1985]

Peterhead

 

[HABA87]

Where would you recommend in the area?

It depends what you want. Seahouses has some shops and the Farne Islands boats, so serves a purpose. Beadnell, Bamburgh, and the Newtons are nice though.

 

[Dmac1969]

Bloke behind our table necked a pint and then ate the pint pot.

No mentions of Berwick yet?

“It was the seaside town , that they forgot to close down , come armageddon , come armageddon , come”

 

[Jap Stammer]

Not a town but I reckon Dungeness might be the weirdest seaside place in the country

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Is it just me, or does the train look too small.

 

[Blyth_Pirate]

Probably already mentioned, but, Newbiggin has to be right up there with the leaders. An absolute gem of genetic engineering.