scrubbedexpat133

I lived in Bournemouth and Southampton. I have been to Bognor but we used to go down the Dorset coast in preference. It just seemed nicer.

BristolUK

Can't recall a thing about Seaton but Sidmouth is very nice. Very old fashioned...at least when I was last there. Vaguely recall a by-law about eating chips or ice cream on the front.

There was a department store with a tea room upstairs, old fashioned pinnies as if you were back in 1940 Nice Devon Cream Tea

Nice pubs, good food.

Paul_Shepherd

Blackpool, although by no means on the worldstage beach and resort wise, i had many happy childhood memories there. As a kid in the 70s i was lucky enough to travel abroad most years, Spain Italy Greece etc but we would still visit Blackpool and Devon and Cornwall for a week too. There is something basic and salt of the earth working class about Blackpool and I look back on it fondly, as a kid i always had a thing about the old trams!

Of course its all changed now, its not really a family friendly place anymore, the last few times i went there as an adult was for stag doos.... it became one of the capitals of the UK for stag and hen parties, with lots of non familiy type activities and just a general battlezone! But then i guess thats the changing face of society and could count for any big town or city in the UK now on a Friday and Saturday night.

Partially discharged

So in other words its become chavtastic. I was last there in October 1995 and I thought it was a grim place. I had been in the 70's/80's when I lived in the UK so I saw it through rose tinted glasses in many ways. I have/had relatives/family friends in Lytham and Southport so trips to Blackpool co-incided with that. Unfortunately, the Lytham crowd was always trying to get me to be interested in golf which even back then I knew wasn't my thing.

DandNHill

My memory of Bognor was going in to KFC. The floor was so sticky I walked out of my flip flops! Lol

The Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall brings waves of Nostalgia on... beautiful part of the country.

Howefamily

Not a massive fan of Bognor Regis but then I dont care for stoney beaches or the atypical brown grey water of the English channel.
I did once go to Tenby and that was nice and I rather liked Swanage.
I am not a British seaside fan, I appreciate that I seem to be in the minority when it comes to that though

sharkus

Yes I have been to Bognor Regis in the dim and distant past. Went to whatever the holiday park type thing is / was there (cannot remember the name, no, it's not Maplins )

From what I recall, it was a good holiday, my nan and granddad were there too, so a family event. I vividly recall my dad licking and sticking one of those sucker "bullet" things from a toy gun to my brother's head, and when it was removed, it left a nice red mark

I don't recall it raining too much, but we're talking around 30 years ago, so it could have pissed it down for most of the week

Howefamily

Butlins?

Siouxie

I lived in Worthing in my mid to late teens (and again, briefly, in my 20's) and for a very short period of time in Littlehampton and Southampton, so have visited Bognor Regis a fair few times, lol. If I recall correctly, there was a sand beach on one side of Littlehampton. Worthing beach used to have an influx of seaweed from time to time, leaving the beach a stinking sodden mess with an invasion of flies.

As a young child, I spent all my summers at Camber Sands on one of the houses on the beach - our extended families would come and stay for a few days or a couple of weeks and when all the greckles had gone home, we would go looking for coins on the walk up to the carpark. Very happy memories of those days! One of our neighbours one summer was Malcolm Allison and I have photos somewhere of me playing in the sand with his son David and the two families playing cricket on the sand.

After our Mum died, we started holidaying in Devon and Cornwall staying at farms and one memoriable caravan holiday to Dawlish where I was violently sick after eating a cornish pasty. I can still recall riding a cow along the lane to the milking shed and my Dad driving at 60 miles an hour with the car leaning around the corners in order to get back to the farm in time for dinner (if you were late, you didn't get any). I had one holiday to family friends in Devon (in the middle of nowhere) when I was 13 and then the Norfolk Broads with my two sisters and their partners when I was 14.

After moving to Bristol in my later teens/early 20's, I would go to Woolacombe and Weston Super Mare for day trips. After that, it was South Africa, then the Far East.. and the Pacific Islands.. and eventually Europe.

"I was born under a wandering star....."

BristolUK

He managed Bristol Rovers for a short time when they were based at Bath



We stayed on a farm in Devon somewhere..just a stop off on the way I think. The young lad in their family rode a motor bike across the fields. Was it that one?

Maximillian's (Maxi's) at wsm was a great pub in a back street somewhere in town.

Oink

I’ve been also been, I even went to Butlins, albeit for a judo competition. Bognor is a proper seaside town one those that only can exist in the UK. English seaside towns have character and a depth of culture. They’re not like the soulless and dirty sand beaches around here. Going to the seaside in England is an event, it’s full of life; donkey rides, Punch and Judy shows, shellfish kiosks, fish and chip shops, amusement arcades, pubs and bed and breakfasts. Here, they’re characterless, with the pot-smoking comatosed sitting around on logs staring at the illegal boat squatters compete with the countless anchored container ships and sewage overflow pipes to poison the water and being surrounded by infantilized 20 something blokes skateboard around with volleyballs in their so-called ironic SpongeBob backpacks and their vapid counterparts wander up and down the concrete boardwalk trying to attract their attention while doing their best 1983 Valley Girl cackle and wearing novelty cat ears. Dreadful. Give me a British seaside experience any day of the week.

bats

"Bugger Bognor"

macadian

Opposed to "buggered in "Bognor"....🤔😎

sharkus

That's the one! I just could not remember the name of the place.

sharkus

Ah Camber Sands Spent quite some time there during the summers as a child and adult. Used to head towards the stony part of the beach, to avoid the craziness of the dunes.

My brother now lives in Rye, and so is down the beach a fair bit, also means when we go back to the UK for the visit we have to pop down and have a play on the beach, just like being kids again!