[Brighton] Tar on the beach

[shingle]

As a boy growing up in the 60's and 70's my mum used to take us down to the 'Brighton bathing beach' every day during the summer holidays. I remember my feet being caked in tar every time and a man sitting at the entrance of the loo near the pier with a bowl of white spirit and he used to get the tar off peoples feet and there was always a queue of people. Does anyone else remember this?

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Worst cocktail EVER

 

[Weststander]

As a boy growing up in the 60's and 70's my mum used to take us down to the 'Brighton bathing beach' every day during the summer holidays. I remember my feet being caked in tar every time and a man sitting at the entrance of the loo near the pier with a bowl of white spirit and he used to get the tar off peoples feet and there was always a queue of people. Does anyone else remember this?

That was Savile, the foot fetishist.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Yep.

 

[VAL1850]

It was the norm in those days, you never left the beach without a lump of tar on your clothes or towel. Dradfull in 1967 after the Toorey Canyon disaster and the Sitikund that exploded off Beachy Head

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Bombing the Torrey Canyon to try and disperse the oil. It didn't work.

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-bombing-of-the-torrey-canyon-1967-online

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yes, tar on the beach, and a plague of seaweed on the timeline, which stank on a warm day.

 

[rogersix]

Yep.

you're like an amalgam of peters cook and ustinov