Buzzy 10:14 Sun Mar 26
Frinton/Walton
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Took the kids up to Frinton today, the kids had a good time. Had a walk down to Walton where I haven't been for years and what a shock! So sad to see a town lacking so much investment. Something has to be done to try and create some wealth in these areas but the trigger surely has to be some injection of government money. The divide in this country is getting larger and larger not only between north and south but well heeled inner urban areas and suburbs/coastal areas......
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Nurse Ratched
10:16 Sun Mar 26
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There's no such thing as 'government money'.
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Eric Hitchmoe
10:21 Sun Mar 26
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As Morrissey once said "this is the seaside town that they forgot to bomb".
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1964
11:09 Sun Mar 26
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Nothing there is there. Didn't Frinton refuse to have a Fish and Chip shop or something?
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chim chim cha boo
12:17 Mon Mar 27
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I had some great holidays there as a kid (Walton that is and not Frinton as the smell of piss and Werthers Originals put me off).
I went back a couple of years ago and it's just another of God's waiting rooms sur mare.
There is NOTHING as depressing as an off-season British coastal resort.
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Hasans Fish Bar RIP
12:26 Mon Mar 27
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1964
I think that was pubs. They didn't get a pub until around 15 years ago.
20 years ago my whole patch for work was Tendring. Some good contenders with Walton for khazis. Jaywick, st osyth, dovercourt, Harwich. Maybe you have rose tinteds as a kid but it was fucking shocking as an adult to see the decline from our day trips from London.
I had to council tax band the estate that was built on the Warner's/Hi de hi site. Cant believe i actually had a holiday there as a nipper.
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ted fenton
6:42 Mon Mar 27
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Fish & Chip shop first then the pub !
Frinton really is a lovely place to live as in old England but yes I agree Walton needs a bit of TLC.....
Connaught avenue in Frinton has become very cosmopolitan with many bars and restaurants.
I live outside the gates but if you drove down the avenues inside the gates you jaw would drop at most of the houses they're individual and fecking massive yet compared to most area's still cheep.
Oh and we have five junior schools in the area so forget all the old bollocks !
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lab
6:58 Mon Mar 27
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I have to agree , a lot of our coastal towns are rather baron . Sussex can boast good coastal walks and I love Dorset coasts for views, but we don't do a lot to pull people in, Esp people with kids. I imagine it's due to lack of council money.
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ajc123
7:48 Mon Mar 27
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It's barren lab. Tbh who cares? Would any of you swap your 2 weeks in the sun for a shit caravan park in the rain at places like this or Yarmouth? Ffs that's the market. These places vote Tory or worse every single election and complain about being left behind, begging for taxpayers money to get fitted up? No fucking way. Hospitals yes. 1950s style holiday centres no. The world has moved on.
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monto
9:07 Mon Mar 27
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Frinton is lovely, but misery from Walton down to Jaywick.
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BubblesCyprus
9:18 Mon Mar 27
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Spent a couple of memorable days in Frinton was how the U,K used to be.
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ted fenton
10:40 Mon Mar 27
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Yes Bubbles we really enjoyed the meal you provided for me and my family at the Rock hotel which is now the only hotel in Frinton :-(
An excellent evening and lovely surprise.
Thanks again.
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Dan M
11:57 Mon Mar 27
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Tracey Jacks, oooh-oooh oooh-oooh...
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Northern Sold
12:06 Mon Mar 27
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Spent the weekend down Hastings/St leonards visiting me Mum... have to say it was glorious down there... new pier is looking splendid as well.... and have to say the Indian on the front at St leonards had some the best tucker I have had in a long time... pricey but superb... I like it down there... has a very hippyish/bohemian feel about the place... and to me as Seaside towns go it looks like it has had plenty of dosh thrown at it...
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:07 Mon Mar 27
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lab 6:58 Mon Mar 27
It's nothing to do with council money. All the National Parks are rammed out during the summer.
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wd40
12:55 Mon Mar 27
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Use to have all my younger childhood hoildays at Walton on Naze
return myself last year its really a depressing place now.
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ted fenton
1:00 Mon Mar 27
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wd40
Why did you find Walton depressing ?
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Gavros
1:20 Mon Mar 27
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its in essex for a start.
btw i had the best haddock and chips ive ever eaten yesterday at the west mersea oyster bar.
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wd40
1:26 Mon Mar 27
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Depressing might not be the right word
and no doubt kids have a great time on holiday as i did in the summer 6 weeks and will always do.
good clean beach, ice cream, pier, ticks all the boxes.
Lived on a boat at the marina which is just outside for a while in my teens.
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Haz
1:34 Mon Mar 27
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As the wise saying goes,
Harwich for the Continent. Frinton for the incontinent.
Sorry Ted ;-)
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ted fenton
1:37 Mon Mar 27
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Hmmmmmmm
:-(
Pissed myself laughing
:-)
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