Cromer - what a depressing place.
- Thread starter Glow worm
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Chris Norton
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Boston, Lincs
Shame about Cromer going down hill. I love the north norfolk coast but really do not extend it so far as Cromer. I'd rather go to Wells than Skeggy anyday. I do have a soft spot for Sutton on Sea and Anderby Creek on my bit of the coast though.
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Glow worm
Legendary Member
- Location
- Near Newmarket
For me it's neither - just the prospect of the place being turned into Slough-on-Sea simply because people are so short sighted to be unable to see beyond ever more roads and cars.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
It was while driving through Cromer, when we'd been together for a few months, that the clutch pedal on NT's car broke. Without fussing, he went to Halfords and bought a selection of jubilee clips, and fixed it at the roadside. It was as I watched him, lying in the driver's footwell with his head under the dash and his feet sticking out into the road, with me handing him clips on request, that I decided this was definitely someone I could see myself being with for ever.
In fact, it was then that I joked about how a jubilee clip fitted nicely on my ring finger.
On topic, I like a bit of seaside tat, although Great Yarmouth is a tat too far. We took NT's teenage god daughter there, and she wanted to buy a hoodie. We had to look in every tacky clothes shop on the main street, and then do it all over again when she then wanted some trackie botttoms.
In fact, it was then that I joked about how a jubilee clip fitted nicely on my ring finger.
On topic, I like a bit of seaside tat, although Great Yarmouth is a tat too far. We took NT's teenage god daughter there, and she wanted to buy a hoodie. We had to look in every tacky clothes shop on the main street, and then do it all over again when she then wanted some trackie botttoms.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
There's nowt wrong with the old town. The sea front was awash with folk that made me appear svelte and their appetites made me appear to be anorexic. I've never seen such mass (sic) obesity nor such a large proportion of a population in mobility scooters.
Last time I was in Cromer it was full of old people with their noses practically pressed up against various shop windows.
At first I thought they were closely inspecting the purveyors wares, but then I realised they were checking for breath on the glass to ensure their living status.
At first I thought they were closely inspecting the purveyors wares, but then I realised they were checking for breath on the glass to ensure their living status.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
A fair amount of "public consultation" is like that.
Frood42
I know where my towel is
- Location
- Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
no one has mentioned the crabs yet...
Cromer used to be famous for its crabs (crustaceans) .
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Cromer used to be famous for its crabs (crustaceans) .
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totallyfixed
Veteran
- Location
- The only county without a McDonalds
Then you really need to visit Boston [Lincolnshire]. I used to deliver there many years ago, before the Eastern Europeans began settling and spotting the thin person was trickier than finding rocking horse sh*t. Went there again last week to pick up a bike for a friends daughter, nothing much has changed, one big traffic jam because very few walk.
Apologies for derailing the thread a bit.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
You're still focusing on one aspect of the report and ignoring the rest of it... are you a journalist?
Lanzecki
Über Member
- Location
- A Boreen, Ireland
Free parking on public property for a privately owned vehicle.... That's always got me a little.
I used to live 1 road back from Worthing sea front. Parking was always a problem especially on the sunny weekend we had. Eventually a resident parking system was instigated. It helped on weekdays and Saturdays a lot. Sundays, well, I didn't need to drive on Sundays. There was a beach a few meters away. £20 a year for a resident permit. It was worth every penny. Especially when you re-read my first sentence.
Bleeding free for all. everyone parking on top of each other. Getting as close as possible to the beach.
Now, that said, we expect free cycle parking. I'd pay for it if it was secure.
I used to live 1 road back from Worthing sea front. Parking was always a problem especially on the sunny weekend we had. Eventually a resident parking system was instigated. It helped on weekdays and Saturdays a lot. Sundays, well, I didn't need to drive on Sundays. There was a beach a few meters away. £20 a year for a resident permit. It was worth every penny. Especially when you re-read my first sentence.
Bleeding free for all. everyone parking on top of each other. Getting as close as possible to the beach.
Now, that said, we expect free cycle parking. I'd pay for it if it was secure.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Residents parking schemes are great... but having to pay for it on top of an extortionate council tax bill, when they're self financing via FPNs, it's just more fleecing by our local councils.
and getting back to @Glow worm, requesting a pedestrianised town centre, one of the points you're keen to overlook, is in fact a request for less roads and less cars.
and getting back to @Glow worm, requesting a pedestrianised town centre, one of the points you're keen to overlook, is in fact a request for less roads and less cars.
Yellow Fang
Legendary Member
- Location
- Reading
Is Cromer the place Morrisey was thinking of when he wrote:
This the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
This the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
No that was Rhyl.
