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It’s got the edge on Scarborough.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“It’s got the edge on Scarborough”.
You will upset drone with comments like that..
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Scarborough is the Saint-Tropez of the Yorkshire Riviera, though I’d agree that Cagnes-Sur-Mer might just have the edge on Filey, Brid and Hornsea
Now there’s a name from the past for me Nathan. Late-August 1981. Was camping on a nearby camp site, while taking a few day’s holiday on the Riviera after a summer working in Germany as a student. Passed by the hippodrome and saw there was a trotting meet on that evening so my mates and I decided to go. Had my wallet stolen with most of my money in it. It was cucumber sandwiches all the way home to Ireland by train and ferry after that. I never went back.
Nice tale apalachee
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Hornsea is a great call – but Spurn Point is the Arkle of bleak coastal locations.
If you’ve never been….don’t.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I’ve not been but agree it looks nice , especially the bit with the beach and palm trees gently swaying in the breeze.
Which is the closest UK course to the sea? I’d say the winning post at Brighton is about a mile from the water so that must be a contender along with Yarmouth and Redcar (not been to either of those this century so can’t remember how close they are). Musselburgh and Ayr other possibilities (but never visited them sadly).Whatever the answer I suspect none of them can rival this menu: https://www.pavillonhippodrome.fr/menu-paddock-par-date
“I’d say the winning post at Brighton is about a mile from the water”
Roughly that
We did Brighton in the summer.
Much quicker walking from the course to the water than the other way around
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It’s not to everyone’s taste, but I still think Brighton on a sunny day is just glorious.
It’s a mixture of beautiful sea view and utter skulduggery dating back to the days of the movie “Brighton Rock.”
I always smile as the in-running drones suddenly hover into view above the notorious Whitehawk estate just before post time.
A former journalist colleague who lives there, loves Brighton as a place, but has no illusions about it, once said to me: “Brighton is a city which is helping the Police with their enquiries.”
A wonderful line.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Didn’t Keith Waterhouse originally write that line?
Brightin has always been a lucky track for me. I have visited twice. On the first day a sea mist rolled in and you could hardly see a thing. The second day was glorious. The sight of the horses framed against the sky line from the 1m 4f start is one of the best in British racing.
And yes, that hill to the track is properly steep. Would not fancy walking it from the town!
Think it was the playwright Keith Waterhouse (Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell etc) who first made that apposite comment about Brighton: good indeed
Once spent a few days in the Old Ship Hotel on the seafront and did enjoy the seedy, shifty but effortlessly classy atmosphere of the town
Been to the races once, back in the ’80s and the impression was ‘seen better days’ though perhaps it’s been tarted up since. Splendidly situated though
I’ve braved Spurn a few times: bleak indeed, though I quite like that ‘nature in the raw’ sort of thing occasionally. Preferable to Cleethorpes across the estuary anyway
The church at Patrington – the ‘Queen of Holderness’ – is a magnificent building
Tremendous stuff, gentlemen – I do like threads like this.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Scarborough is known as ‘Scarbados’ around my neck of the woods. It is even more reknowned than Skeg-Vegas.
Cleethorpes is populated by dog muck, brown water, and Grimsby Town supporters. Best avoided.
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It’s a mixture of beautiful sea view and utter skulduggery dating back to the days of the movie “Brighton Rock.”
Absolutely this. It was the first course I attended back in 1985 and I remember very well the slightly seedy feel of the place – in the Silver Ring 20 minutes before the opener, snaggle-toothed bookmaker Bobby Mack (I think) suddenly shouting “11/8 the field” and everything coming to life. The down-at-heel nature of the place was definitely part of the attraction. At the end of the meeting the discarded bookies sheets and papers fluttering in the breeze (never been there when it wasn’t windy even during the three day August “festival”) almost had me hypnotised. I seem to recall Charlie Moore had a big-priced winner that day making the not-very-long trip across the road.
I can feel a trip to the shed to get out the relevant Superform annual to breathe in some more of this nostalgia.
“the slightly seedy feel of the place….The down-at-heel nature of the place was definitely part of the attraction”
Totally this – I got exactly the same vibe.
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