Anybody Here from a Small Town called Deal in England?

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^ i want to run across your bridge

Went there on a pub crawl once.

There's a plaque on it saying it was a gift from someone in the late 1800s/early 1900s. After a heavy rain, when the river is in full flow, the bridge gets a little scary to be on. It leads to a narrow lane which runs past the local golf club and then on to Northenden. It's a quiet walk if you don't want to meet anyone. You just have to dodge the occasional car. When it snows hard, as it has done two years in a row, the whole of the riverbank looks amazing, even if it does take four times as long to walk.

I live in a magical place called Amuhrrica. Don't think you guys would've heard of it. It's very far away.

Cosmic Russ mentioned Dungeness. For those who don't know, it's a nuclear power plant in Kent and very close (some say too close) to the shoreline. Though Dungeness A has shut down, Dungeness B will be in service until 2018 or longer.

I loved it when I was taken there as a kid. My aunt and uncle never let it drop. 'He loved it. Such a terrible, windswept place, but he loved it.' I wanted to live in one of those odd little houses you see dotted about. Just me and the sea.

Edit - WP will not accept the pictures I found....so they are here:

http://www.back2mine.net/index.php/gall ... egory/263/

http://www.nda.gov.uk/sites/dungenessa/

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Deal, Kent (link)

Typical for Deal....


I've been to that bakery plenty of times too.

Did you do the Didsbury Dozen? I used to live in Didsbury Village, it's lovely I used to really like going for a walk in the two parks there, I also like West Didsbury too.

Small world... been to Didsbury. Serious cheese shop I recall. Not been to Deal, the South is a bit foreign to me. Was a shock when I found out how close to London Watford actually is, as I thought it must've been somewhere near Notts. Such are the perils of mental geography (Perhaps that's a variant on rude topography, alongside it's sibling subjects unintelligible history and mildly puzzled cartography).

That'll be the Cheese Hamlet, Nier (though I've always thought that an odd name).





M/w.....given that the thread is about Deal. I remember one of the Carry On actors lived there too. The really camp one with the glasses. But he had a horrible reputation. Most of my aunt's neighbours loathed him.

I don't really know much about the people from the Carry on Films, but my mum met Kenneth Williams once, and found him to be very rude, apparently.

Norman Wisdom lived in Deal for quite some time, and spent a lot of time here until he died. Deal is a bit like a Norman Wisdom Mecca now.

This was over twenty years ago, so maybe that's the one. Who knows? Did he wear glasses? Whichever one it was had a terrible reputation for getting very drunk and becoming more and more offensive and highly abusive as the night wore on. Talk of him being robbed blind on more than one occasion by the men/lads he took home with him. Though I think my aunt (like many of her neighbours) liked the scandal of it all. It gave her something to chat about.

I've done a little research and the guy you are thinking of is called Charles Hawtrey. (I'm such a sadact ). I looked it up on Wikipedia. Apparently he was a haorder too, who collected loads of brass beadsteads in his home in Deal.

Never knew about any of the Carry on Cast living in Deal before.

Wow.....sorry I mentioned that. But he's clearly the one, Rabbitears. What a sad story. I knew about the 'lads' but had no idea he was partial to Royal Marines!

Took me a while to get that.


It's a shame the town lost them.