Holiday in Dungeness

[ChrisKH]

Ahem! Sheppey is sublime. But not as sublime as Mersea...

Man after my own heart. I used to thoroughly enjoy summer camp on Mersea in my teenage years. Even did a bit of wild camping on the beach. Just me the bike and a tent.

 

[Wigsie]

Ahem! Sheppey is sublime. But not as sublime as Mersea...

Next you will be saying that Grain is the 'hot spot' tourist destination of this year.

 

[dellzeqq]

Next you will be saying that Grain is the 'hot spot' tourist destination of this year.

Don't be silly. But Canvey is the new Southwold!

 

[Paul Narramore]

The late Derek Jarman's wooden house is the black and yellow one on the righthand side of the road between the Pilot and the Britannia. It's private property so is not (as far as I know) open to the public. There is no soil on this part of Romney Marsh and nor is importing any soil permitted, so Jarman's garden was the clever use of driftwood and drought tolerant plants. I'm a keen gardener and would like to look around it but....

House prices are not cheap as the area is a favourite for retired people. I think it would be a cracking place to live although it's undoubtedly bleak in the Winter.

It's quite unfair to compare Romney Marsh with the Isle of Sheppey. My wife first taught in Sheerness. Many of the children had never left the island and rumours of inbreeding amongst the population was rife.

 

[Arch]

I'd like to go there sometime - looks so utterly unlike the countryside I think of as English.

 

[Panter]

The late Derek Jarman's wooden house is the black and yellow one on the righthand side of the road between the Pilot and the Britannia. It's private property so is not (as far as I know) open to the public. There is no soil on this part of Romney Marsh and nor is importing any soil permitted, so Jarman's garden was the clever use of driftwood and drought tolerant plants. I'm a keen gardener and would like to look around it but....

House prices are not cheap as the area is a favourite for retired people. I think it would be a cracking place to live although it's undoubtedly bleak in the Winter.

It's quite unfair to compare Romney Marsh with the Isle of Sheppey. My wife first taught in Sheerness. Many of the children had never left the island and rumours of inbreeding amongst the population was rife.

They are just that though, rumours. Sheppey is a fine place.


I'm born and bred on the Isle of Sheppey and I'm..........



Ok, point taken

 

[Velorum]

What are the house prices like around there? Does the nuclear power station bring them down a bit?

Above average I believe due to the demand from the more bohemian groups of house hunters!

 

[Velorum]

Thank goodness that there are some that also appreciate this places bleak weirdness.

It was Jarmins house/garden that first drew me there.

My photographies not very good so I couldnt quite capture the garden in the first two pics

 

[Wigsie]

They are just that though, rumours. Sheppey is a fine place.

I'm born and bred on the Isle of Sheppey and I'm..........

Ok, point taken

whatever!

My wife's stepfather's family are from Sheppey and inbred is the only word!

 

[Paul Narramore]

A year or two ago I used to look at a website scurulously written by an anonymous person all about Sheppey, it's teenager pregnancies, the knuckle draggers and which pubs condoned drug taking. I think it even appeared on TV, but I've no idea if it's still going, nor do I know who the secret webmaster was.

 

[Wigsie]

A year or two ago I used to look at a website scurulously written by an anonymous person all about Sheppey, it's teenager pregnancies, the knuckle draggers and which pubs condoned drug taking. I think it even appeared on TV, but I've no idea if it's still going, nor do I know who the secret webmaster was.

The Sheppey Tourist board?