Sovereign Harbour eastbourne

[3gulls]

They made the unforgiveable mistake of designing a major new residential zone without any play areas or public spaces of note, no squares or piazzas for open air art, markets, music and entertainment, just acre after acre of houses with a token waterfront with no greenery or softening touches. The place looks like Brookside on Sea.

There are no local shops (except Asda, Matalan etc), no community facilities, and no encouragement for pedestrians.

In a few years that part of EB is going to have some big social problems because of the greed of the developers and the dimwittedness of the council.

They already have, just behind Asda.

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

The Thai restaurant down there is good though.

I have to agree on this point. Excellent food. I make a point of reserving a table every time I come back to Blighty.

 

[Monkey Man]

Yep, the Thai is good.

Funny how only ex-pats call the place "Blighty". What the hell does it mean?

 

[Beach Hut]

I looked at a house there when under construction but it was too far from the railway station to commute to London.

Nice area though.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Funny how only ex-pats call the place "Blighty". What the hell does it mean?

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bli1.htm

It’s a relic of British India. It comes from a Hindi word bilayati, foreign, which is related to the Arabic wilayat, a kingdom or province. Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C Burnell explained in their Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, published in 1886, that the word was used in the names of several kinds of exotic foreign things, especially those that the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato (bilayati baingan) and especially to soda-water, which was commonly called bilayati pani, or foreign water.

Blighty was the inevitable British soldier’s corruption of it. But it only came into common use as a term for Britain at the beginning of the First World War in France about 1915. It turns up in popular songs There’s a ship that’s bound for Blighty, We wish we were in Blighty, and Take me back to dear old Blighty, put me on the train for London town, and in Wilfred Owen’s poems, as well as many other places.

 

[Giant Seagull]

are they still going to build the MASSIVE B&Q warehouse down there?

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

So you've not been to Whitehaven or Grange-over-Sands on the Cumbria coast then?

Whitehaven's OK. I don't mind defending it cos I used to work there (albeit for about two months). It's a bit rowdy but has got some nice pubs and a fabulous harbour for walking round. Grange is full of pensioners, and so is not so hot. But neither of these places is the worst in Cumbria at all... go to Cornwallis St in Barrow on a Saturday night, or the area north of Workington at frankly any time, and you'll see things that are much more grim.

 

[Les Biehn]

One of my best mates is from Whithaven sounds like Worthing/Eastbourne but with shitter weather.

 

[dougdeep]

are they still going to build the MASSIVE B&Q warehouse down there?

Still not decided.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It's a bit 'Stepford Wives'-ish. Could be anywhere really.

 

[Strike]

They already have, just behind Asda.

Know what u mean, briefly was going out with a girl that was living near Soverign Habour (North), and did get a bit noisy outside at night, but was not that bad to be fair. Bit worrying about the Sea Defences though.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Know what u mean, briefly was going out with a girl that was living near Soverign Habour (North), and did get a bit noisy outside at night, but was not that bad to be fair. Bit worrying about the Sea Defences though.

Probably the chavs from Shinewater looking for entertainment.

 

[Strike]

Probably the chavs from Shinewater looking for entertainment.

yeah. But enjoyed my stay I had there for the night though.