Isle of Wight Visible From Brighton?

Norman Potting

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Nov 5, 2006

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Sussex, Sussex not by the sea and actually nearer

• Sep 13, 2024

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Up here in the Northern Heights of Sussex on a leap year you can see the Needles and the lighthouse and the keeper holding a glass tube full of coloured sand.

 

Me and my Monkey

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• Sep 13, 2024

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raymondo said:

The top of Elm Grove is also visible from the IOW

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I'll give you a wave next time!

 

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Oh_aye

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• Sep 13, 2024

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Cheeky Monkey said:

Can anyone settle an argument. We've just had our loft converted, and living in Hollingdean we're pretty high up at the back of Brighton, from where, on a clear day looking west, we can see land in the far distance running quite a way out to sea. It seems too far out to be Selsey Bill, and so must surely be the Isle of Wight?! Obviously this has been the cause of some concern in our household, the I.O.W. being in the heart of Portscum territory. Any ideas NSC?

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100% you can. I used to live in a flat the top of Dyke Road and used to see it when the weather was right.

 

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Wardy's twin

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• Sep 13, 2024

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Oh_aye said:

100% you can. I used to live in a flat the top of Dyke Road and used to see it when the weather was right.

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the complete IOW showing both the big hill behind Ventnor and the white cliffs north of Sandown (most people only capture the south bit) . Picture taken from top of bear road 13 years ago.

 

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METALMICKY

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Jan 30, 2004

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• Sep 13, 2024

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Norman Potting said:

Up here in the Northern Heights of Sussex on a leap year you can see the Needles and the lighthouse and the keeper holding a glass tube full of coloured sand.

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And how shite did those tubes look when you did it yourself?

Anyway, only the other day it was so clear I could see Mark King in his backyard slapping that bass proper!

 

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raymondo

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Wiltshire

• Sep 13, 2024

• #146

Me and my Monkey said:

I'll give you a wave next time!

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I'm in Wiltshire, top of a hill, 550 ft above sea level ...you can't miss us!

 

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Greg Bobkin

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• Sep 13, 2024

• #147

Calling @The Man from Del Monte

 

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POSKETT AT THE VALLEY

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Isle of Wight

• Sep 13, 2024

• #148

METALMICKY said:

And how shite did those tubes look when you did it yourself?

Anyway, only the other day it was so clear I could see Mark King in his backyard slapping that bass proper!

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I was driving by his gaff at the same time and it definitely wasn’t his bass he was slapping.

 

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METALMICKY

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• Sep 13, 2024

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POSKETT AT THE VALLEY said:

I was driving by his gaff at the same time and it definitely wasn’t his bass he was slapping.

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Any excuse to post their best non pop song in their early days!

 

Birdie Boy

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Jun 17, 2011

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• Sep 13, 2024

• #150

Seen it many times on a clear day from Dyke Golf course.

 

Eric the meek

Fiveways Wilf

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• Sep 13, 2024

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I used to know someone who was told 'see the Isle of Wight?' at the Devil's Dyke, looked at it, and said 'that's France, surely?'.

Then, we later found out she was brought up in Portsmouth, opposite the Isle of Wight. True story.