please empty your brain below
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Virtual trips a dumb idea
John B | 10.04.20 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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Went last year as it has a pier (albeit not a staggeringly exciting one)
bblb | 10.04.20 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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Bugger- is that your last word on Bognor as allegedly George Vs last words on Bognor?
Sara | 10.04.20 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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I don't think I've ever been to Bognor. Somehow this description leaves me rather disinclined to rectify that omission.
Malcolm | 10.04.20 - 7:56 a.m. | #
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I do love that Butlins is still open in Bognor, Skegness and Minehead - three of the least glamorous names for holiday destinations you could possible come up with.
Scott | Homepage | 10.04.20 - 8:09 a.m. | #
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I enjoyed it thoroughly.
mushroomcounter | 10.04.20 - 8:10 a.m. | #
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Funnily enough did something very similar when (in the absence of anything else to do) since your last virtual trip, began sifting though boxes of travel and tourist ephemera. So much cheaper to 'do' the whole of Greenwich virtually and it was good to see the cherry blossom out in the park at the same time as the autumnal colours on One Tree Hill. Off to Richmond this evening.
TomH | 10.04.20 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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My favourite thing about Bognor is the houses made from old railway carriages - which, alas, I have never seen.
Sarah | Homepage | 10.04.20 - 8:38 a.m. | #
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Robert Smith from The Cure lives just outside Bognor and is often seen out and about
Simon Guy | 10.04.20 - 8:39 a.m. | #
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That cover picture can't have been taken at sunset in Bognor - the sun only sets over the sea there in the depths of winter. In any case, it appears to be high in the sky - probably taken on a cloudy summer's day with an orange filter.
timbo | 10.04.20 - 9:01 a.m. | #
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Enjoying your virtual visits, thanks DG.
Perhaps, take us somewhere but omit to tell us where it is.
Herbof | 10.04.20 - 9:03 a.m. | #
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I spent many a terrible childhood holiday in Bognor. The best bit, so far as I could tell, was the ~50p items shop (which usually went up in price by 5p-10p each year). Worst bit was the B&B full of clowns and dolls. Wonder if that's still going.
JJ | 10.04.20 - 9:13 a.m. | #
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Billy Butlin certainly was an entrepreneur. Maybe that's why the Day Visitor rates have a '15% discount' during school holidays and a '25% discount' during term-time!
Bob L-S | 10.04.20 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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Blimey the Queen is old.
Kevin | 10.04.20 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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The Bognor Regis Museum is the former Berkely Arms pub built in 1933 to replace the former pub at 35 West St. Strangely it was built on the site of a former pub, the Wheatsheaf Hotel.
Southern Man | 10.04.20 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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When I was a kid we drove to Bognor for the day. It rained. Biblical rain.
Drenched we ate our home made sandwiches in a very steamed up car supposedly on the seafront. You could barely see the sea. Strangely I've not been back.
ap | 10.04.20 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Well done. I was nearly to the end of reading this and was thinking about the old story about King George V, and thought you were going to miss it out. But then I saw the last word! I hope that you have a good day today anyway. Cheers!
Dave | 10.04.20 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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In the 60s i remember being thrilled by the cunningly illuminated animals in the shrubberies next to the road on the front.
Individually they lit up briefly all along the gardens so that from the back seat of the car they appeared to be hopping alongside through the bushes. My father had perfected the speed of the drive.
the other eric | 10.04.20 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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RC Sherrif's excellent book 'The Fortnight in September' is set partly in Bognor Regis. It contains one of the best chapter beginnings.
'Clapham Junction is perfectly all right if you keep your head'.
Cornish Monkey | 10.04.20 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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Glad I'm not the only one who hoards tourist leaflets. I still find them useful for planning trips, even with all the info available on the internet.
Andrew S | 10.04.20 - 10:34 a.m. | #
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Inspired writing again. Great ending.
Stuart | 10.04.20 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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Mentioning RC Sherrif's book made me begin to read it again. In it you can have a virtual holiday in 1931
Cornish Monkey | 10.04.20 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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I enjoyed this excursion. I've never been, but have no idea why not.
Now I think I will. One day. Sometime.
Probably not soon. But one day, I hope.
Frank F | 10.04.20 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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I knew there would be a bugger in there somewhere....
Chris | 10.04.20 - 11:14 a.m. | #
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That cover is gorgeous! I really need to see the sea again. One day.
Cornish Cockney | 10.04.20 - 12:29 p.m. | #
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Cornish Cockney. I agree
Cornish Monkey | 10.04.20 - 12:41 p.m. | #
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Ah happy memories. My paternal grandparents lived nearby and my brothers and I were despatched there (one at a time) for a week every summer. The highlight of the week was invariably the day trip (or twice in the week if lucky) to Bognor, usually visiting Hotham Park and the zoo there, now long since gone. On one occasion there was a circus there.
A few years back I went back with my wife, but as usual destinations never live up to childhood reminiscences.
Tim | 10.04.20 - 1:53 p.m. | #
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Many years ago I stayed in an old railway carriage on the beach at Pagham.
Sprout Eater | 10.04.20 - 3:17 p.m. | #
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Scott, I agree that Skegness and Bognor are pretty unglamorous but I think you do Minehead a disservice.
It's mpressively quaint in places, has a steam railway running into the centre of town, is on the edge of a National Park and is at the start of arguably Britain's best footpath - the South West Coast Path.
cjw714 | 10.04.20 - 3:36 p.m. | #
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Spot on cjw714. Minehead also has a tiny sailors' chapel right on the quay plus it was the last place we saw Morris dancing, so two ticks.
H SE18 | 10.04.20 - 4:43 p.m. | #
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I'm now on my imaginary train home from Bognor Regis. Ah, it would have been glorious.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.04.20 - 5:08 p.m. | #
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Went to Bognor by bus from Chichester just before the lockdown started. Walked along the front to Felpham to see William Blake's cottage. The winter storms had piled up the shingle over the seafront footpath. Wondered when the Council workmen come and shovel it all back on to the beach.
Tones | 10.04.20 - 6:16 p.m. | #
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I hope you remembered to apply sun cream and wear a hat.
mckm | 10.04.20 - 6:39 p.m. | #
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Sprout Eater - me too!
Crikey what a memory that brought back.
Gripper | 10.04.20 - 10:41 p.m. | #
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I've been to Bognor twice now for a family trip to Butlin's, where one of the hotels looks a bit like an Art Deco cruise liner.
I also saw, on a windy, rainy walk along the promenade, a family trying their best to have a barbecue on the beach, despite the elements. I'm not sure you get much more quintessentialy British than that.
martin | 11.04.20 - 7:23 a.m. | #
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