Pubs in seaside towns

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Prompted by comments about the pub at Camber Sands Holiday Centre in this, why do pubs in seaside towns tend to be (a)awful or (b) non-existent?

MarkH, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ex Blackpool socialite speaks - there are several good pubs in most seaside towns, as there are in ANY town. Seaside pubs just have a higher concentration of grotty tourist traps and "Fun Pubs". Mark Hester your point is redundant and I claim the Beer House in Blackpool as a classic.

Of course this is the North, I do not know about poncey Southern seaside towns grrr argggh to them.

Sarah, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frinton On Sea famously has/had no pubs because the local council forbade it. I've got a vague feeling this changed recently hence has/had indecision.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree that they aren't objectively great on the whole, but I usually have a lovely time in them. Something to do with being with friends on holiday, I guess.

At a guess, the reason for their lack of amazingness is the dearth of young people in seaside towns.

Nick, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I am from the south and was thinking primarily of southern seaside towns: guilty as charged! But Sarah, I did say tend to be, I was not claiming that all pubs in seaside towns are bad.

Richard, I do believe that Frinton council have reneged on their ruling about pubs in the town. But this is the whole point. So Frinton is genteel, but it doesn't matter how genteel inland towns are, they still have pubs. Why should seaside towns be, or have ever been different?

MarkH, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still think an ILE seaside awayday would be a good idea.

Tom, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bournemouth was similarly built in a time of temperance, so when I got there there were very few pubs, but there were some absolute classics away from the rubbish tourist pubs, the goat and tricycle being my favourite, what a lovely pub it was, down a quiet street on the outskirts of the centre, proper beer, good jukebox, fiendishly difficult quiz, lovely awning with a heater.

Now, the student culture is taking hold there so I've been informed but it's all trendy bars and no pubs, grrrrrrrrr

cabbage, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are some great pubs in Rye. The best one is in a nicey hotel where they get really panicked if loads of festival goers show up with rucksacks.

DV, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I live by the sea. It's over-rated. Walking by the sea is too cold. And where I live it's a filthy disgusting estuary as Ian aka DV would know.

Ronan, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have to agree on the subject of Bournemouth. The Goat & Tricycle is a fantastic place. Any pub which dishes out free roast potatoes towards the end of the evening can't be bad!

julia, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Now I'm rarely accused of being a booza hata, and Hopkins's first law states that any pub is better than no pub, but most pubs in most towns are rubbish pubs.

Seaside towns, in my view, have their fair share of good pubs. The good ones tend to be a little way away from the beaten tourist paths, it's true, but then the same thing is true of pubs in London or anywhere else which deals with high volumes of tourists.

Anyone who survived as far as Rupert St on Trig Brother will have been subjected to me describing how the BEST PUB EVER was in a seaside town (as well as always being in the past).

Tim, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...
i went to a pub in cromer, this time last year, and the stereotypes were true, i haven't been to a seaside pub since

or, indeed, the seaside

-- (688), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

you are being very wistful

Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

it is a problem, yes

-- (688), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

send me your address for postcards

Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

i went to a good pub in Scarborough once. we spent half the night with some guys who couldn't speak/communicated by sign language. that was good.

Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

geezers kiosk,
railway terrace,
kippax

-- (688), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

i went to a place on the marina in long beach once. had some margaritas and chips+salsa and stared at the seagulls attacking the children on the dock.

gear (gear), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

^underrated post in character.

Name some current favorites, UK, US or elsewhere.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 15:28 (fourteen years ago)

It's Medway, not seaside, in nakhchivan's dreaded north Kent, but I did just get a text from a friend -

In the Vigo Inn in Vigo. The only surviving Dadlums table, featured in my 40-year-old book of British pub games, is still here in the bar!

History of the Vigo Inn.

Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:38 (fourteen years ago)

i used to rate celta vigo

nakhchivan, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:44 (fourteen years ago)

then they got hristo stoichkov to coach them and nobody heard of them ever again

nakhchivan, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

which brings us by a commodius vigo of recirculation

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

aptly enough i was reading about galicia on wikipedia yesterday after reading 'roads to santiago' and being intrigued by this rainy and distant land, replete with deep valleys extending off of the plateau.....the more sedate ria de vigo compensates by featuring some neat scalextric roads

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Ria_de_Vigo.jpg

nakhchivan, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 20:53 (fourteen years ago)


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