Scarborough seafront Yorkshire

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Some of my earliest memories are on Scarborough seafront. Salty Fish & Chips and rock hard candy, that resulted in many amalgam (mercury/copper) tooth fillings when I was a kid. I later had all of these removed in my early twenties.

So I have nice tooth coloured fillings - all paid for by job seekers allowance, whilst I starved to death for nearly 3 years.

Oh, and a bird/seagull pooped on my head one time, and I didn't know what it was & asked my Mum if the poop was caramel.

I went to Weston super mare, Blackpool as a kid. Yorkshire, i may have been there, i cant remember., I've been Wales and various places, but i was too young to remember. Other places, i was old enough to remember, but I just forgot the location, or the event entirely. I visited Legoland, Alton Towers, Cadburys factory, some kind of old Victorian town thing, as a kid, many random places, but it's all a blur. I may have deficient auto-biographical memory.

Never been to Scarborough, but it looks to have a nice sandy beach from the video. Also doesn't look quite as upmarket as I'd imagined it. I'm not very familiar with the East Coast of England at all - we went to Skegness (Butlins) in the 1960s when I was very young, don't remember it at all, and I went to visit Whitley Bay a few years ago, horrible place!

Yeah, Skegness , Butlins. Another place I have barely any memory of. (Next to zero memories.) I've been there, I've been told i've been there, maybe even for like a couple weeks.

[quote="DeepHour"I went to visit Whitley Bay a few years ago, horrible place![/quote]


As someone who's only visited the UK by armchair, I'm curious why you say this...please explain, thanks!

Well, as I recall it, there was no proper beach for a start, all stones and rocks. Grim environment generally, uninspiring architecture, few interesting facilities, not even a decent shopping centre. A large part of the town seemed to have turned into a building site, with scaffolding everywhere, roads being dug up, etc.

Of course it's entirely possible that all the building work has created a fantabulous new resort by now, but somehow I doubt it....

Just remembered that I took a few photographs while in Whitley Bay:





The beach, probably the best part of it. There's actually a hint of some rather poor quality sand there.






The most impressive building I could find, not sure what it was supposed to be.






Banned for being a dog in Whitley Bay.






Even this seagull doesn't look too impressed with the place.






Part of the municipal gardens (joke).






An old-fashioned public telephone box near the railway station.

What about the Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme?

Scarborough
by Anne Brontë

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