favourite english seaside town

Out of those I chose Scarborough cos it combines elements of several of the others. But I would've liked to vote Ilfracombe.

the ones i would have liked to vote for aren't there either, but i tried to pick the biggest 10, ive been to 6 of them, im not sure which i would vote for yet

Whitby is cool.

Gah, I just voted for Brighton by mistake (not that I don't quite like Brighton, but it'll get loads of votes anyway).

Brighton has the Volks Railway going for it, but not much else - it's a shame the Brighton and Rottingdean Seaside Electric Tramroad didn't survive very long, because it was ace - basically, a mobile section of pier.

Whitby has goths, of course, and hot goths are always a bonus. But I went for Scarborough just because, as Noodle said, it's the archetypal one.

Places you didn't list: Cleethorpes (I have to say that even though it's shit, cos I live there nominally) and Hastings (my top choice cos of many childhood holidays. Hastings ranks alongside Scarborough as having everything a seaside town *should* have: beach, tacky arcades, miniature train, boating lake, ruined castle, cliffs, cliff railways (only 2 to Scarborough's 3), and gruesome legends about local smugglers.

(I think Scarborough might be missing the smugglers and boating lake - but Scarborough Castle's past is more gruesome than Hastings Castle's, which kind of makes up for the smugglers)

Whitby has the best fish and chips.

No, Cleethorpes and Polperro both have better fish and chip shops.

There used to be a pub in Scarborough called The Smugglers I think. (Goths was a reason I marked down Whitby lol)

how can goths ever be a positive??

weston-super-mare is one of the grimmest places i've ever set foot in.

Because lots of goths are hot, as stated above.

Clearly the reason Scarborough has little smuggling heritage (compared to Hastings or Cornwall - or Lincolnshire even, New Holland got its name from the amount of contraband gin passing through it) is that they all sat in the pub getting pissed.

southport. full of posh scousers and has the cleanest beach in britain. larks!

There's a road in Whitby that smells of smoked kippers (or at least there was in 1989) and I love it/the memory of it. Scarborough rocks also.

im leaning towards whitby, goths or no goths.

but what about morecambe? no boosters for morecambe? i remember liking it, but it was a long time ago

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morecambe - jug of tea?

only been to whitby, scarboro, southend and brighton - the latter wins for numerous reasons that eclipse any cons about the place.

I don't really want to vote for Brighton despite hometown affection, because I don't think it's very good at being a seaside town any more. But I haven't been to any of the others :(

Whitby has jet

the gladiator?

No, the Wings track.

southend has kit

Jet

The Jet draws the Goffs.

Probably the most enjoyable weekend I've had traveling was in Whitby. K-classic.

i've only been to brighton on the list there

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Archel, i agree. Brighton is really more of a town by the sea than a seaside town these days. It thinks of itself as too alternative to be "traditional". Still beats Newquay and WSM which are the only other ones I'm familiar with from that list.

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disappointing results

Wells-next-the-Sea has the best fish and chips.
Cromer is my favourite english seaside town although Lyme Regis is a close second.

lol southerners

that was an xpost

Cromer's nice but slightly Morrissey. Mind, I've only been in March.

good memories of cromer over here

very predictable results

Out of those options I've been to Weston-Super-Mare the most :'( Stupid childhood in the West Midlands. It was either there or Tenby. We did go to Newquay once though.

Another predictable shout for Cromer.

I somehow missed this poll.

30 years ago I would have gone for Blackpool but now I would probably have picked Whitby.

i thought brighton was rubbish it looked just like southend

out of the choices available (self xpost).

Never been to Southend so I can't back you up on that.

I am going to Brighton this weekend. I have no idea what to expect.

rain, I think

Oh joy.

come to southend then we r having sun

and singstar

Wd lv to come but we are car-less. And lazy.

that's ok i was guessing about the sun but will have A+++++ singstar again anyway

the view east from the train as you pull into brighton is one of my favourite things about the place (only works if it's sunny tho).

You can see my house from there. No shit, you can. London to Brighton bike ride on Sunday so expect swarms of lycra-clad (not so) lovelies. Not naked though, that was last weekend.

I went to Dungeness last weekend, it was beautiful, but in no way a town.