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This was when I had relatives who lived at Southwold and they went to Lowestoft because it was cheaper to shop there!
East coast seaside resorts in UK always too cold and windy for me.
Looks like you had a nice sunny day.
Birds Eye still providing work but from the 1950's until about 1980 Pye radios and TV's were made at Pye's Lowestoft factory, which is now gone- as has all UK TV manufacturing.
Pye brand included Ecko. Sanyo took over the plant for a while.
I found a couple of pictures of the old factory.
Wonder if the fisherman was aware of his unique location.
I also quite like that it's a bit of a dump, it matches the 'not-a-dramatic-headland-just a big-curve' location.
I think you will find the other cardinal points a little less accessible. The most northerly point in ENGLAND, on the other hand, is very easy to get to, although not easy to stop at.
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/facts-and-figures/drive-story/drive-story-citroen-c5-the-longest-day/
A classic dg post, much enjoyed.
A bit of trivia about old Ecko televisions.
When UK TV was 405 lines you could quite easily see the horizontal lines which made up the picture.
Some Ecko sets had a sales feature called "spot wobble" which made the lines wobble as they scanned across the screen, making it harder to see them. It never really caught on and most people turned the function off. All past history now, and will no doubt be forgotten forever when us old timers are gone!
From my experience Lowestoft is an extremely depressing place - and I'm someone who sees the best in every town! Real problems of poverty and isolation.
Should have gone out beyond the lone fisherman, then there might have been a tall tale to add to the blog!
Yu need to be careful with grid lines. Are you sure about that? In order that that each grid square is exactly 1km wide, despite lines of longitude converging towards the pole, Grid lines only run due north and south at 2 degrees West (a line running from the Isle of Purbeck to Berwick on Tweed and Aberdeen), and either side of that line, the lines of longitude converge as you go north, so on the west coast they are running well to the east of grid north. (Because of this, Scilly has an easting over 60km further west than Ardnamurchan's, although going by longitude the difference is only about six miles.
The co-ordinates on Streetmap suggest there are less than 3 seconds of arc between the longitudes of Corrachadh Mor and Ardnamurchan, which at 57 degrees north, is less than 50 yards, close to the resolution possible using a map.
Love the blog. This one particularly nice, agree with previous comment that the roses (and their price) add a very definite air of desperation.
I wanted to point out, though, that Gulliver is now a heck of a long way from being the tallest wind turbine in the UK: http://sse.com/whatwedo/ourprojectsandassets/renewables/Hunterston/
Cheers, and keep up the good work,
Nick
dg writes: Thanks Nick, and text now amended.
Let's see how long the "visitor attraction" at Lowestoft Ness remains open. This is not Land's End, or John O'Groats, or indeed Lizard Point. Nor indeed Dunnet Head .
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