Sheppey is strange

[Topolino]

Rumour has it that peculiar things happen on Sheppey but on a recent trip to Rushenden I seem to have stepped through a portal to a different time and dimension.

 

[pvb]

Kent, innit? Nuff said.

PS Welcome to the forums!

 

[Concerto]

I found Sheppy was strange in the late 1960's. Many residents had never left the island ever in their lives. So building pirate ships to defend their island does not surprise me. ?‍

 

[Boo2]

Rumour has it that peculiar things happen on Sheppey but on a recent trip to Rushenden I seem to have stepped through a portal to a different time and dimension.
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3 Atlantic Clipper 36s in a row. You don't see that vey often

Boo2

 

[Cantata]

That's weird. I've seen one of those before, tied up nearby from time to time, but where the heck did the other two come from?

 

[Old Harry]

Interbreeding

 

[Topolino]

Funny thing about islands. When I lived in North Essex the same things were said about Mersea. Even the jokes were the same.

 

[Rum Run]

Secret build up of new naval force for channel defence post-Brexit?

 

[Pye_End]

That's weird. I've seen one of those before, tied up nearby from time to time, but where the heck did the other two come from?

Ditto. Saw something similar in Scarborough as a day trip boat, and assumed at the time it was the same one.

 

[oldgit]

Did the Dutch ever give back Sheppey or did they simply leg it pronto when they realised exactly what the locals were like !
Suprised the Dutch were able to sail away at all, what with the locals habit of liberating anything not bolted down or constantly watched.
I lost a Seagull off the back of a dinghy in Queenborough....the bad news ................. I got the poxy horrid thing back

Was in the Sheerness "all you can eat" on Sunday. Very small plates.
They insist on payment up front before anyone can even touch the cutlery or plates ....anything else you need to know.

 

[Gwylan]

Spare a thought for those unfortunates who find themselves cast up these alien corners.
I have always found those natives that speak English to be pleasant and helpful.

Other competitors in the Dump of the Decade include Barry, Whitehaven and Dumpbarton.

Name yours.

 

[Old Bumbulum]

Funny how people back then took a normal boat's hull and slapped an unfeasibly tall slab-sided superstructure on it, piled a rakishly overhung shed with windows on top of that, and then decided a verandah with rails around it would look good on top of the shed's roof. Plus a variety of 'mine's bigger than yours' sticky up in the air things to impress the neighbours.

So extraordinarily similar to today's - just they didn't paint them white and fit bow-thrusters and stainless steel rocket-launchers on the foredeck...

 

[STOL71]

I quite like Sheppey.

 

[oldgit]

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Funny how people back then took a normal boat's hull and slapped an unfeasibly tall slab-sided superstructure on it, piled a rakishly overhung shed with windows on top of that, and then decided a verandah with rails around it would look good on top of the shed's roof. Plus a variety of 'mine's bigger than yours' sticky up in the air things to impress the neighbours.

So extraordinarily similar to today's - just they didn't paint them white and fit bow-thrusters and stainless steel rocket-launchers on the foredeck...View attachment 84531

that looks suspiciously like MDL Chaveham........................

 

[Biggles Wader]

Spare a thought for those unfortunates who find themselves cast up these alien corners.
I have always found those natives that speak English to be pleasant and helpful.

Other competitors in the Dump of the Decade include Barry, Whitehaven and Dumpbarton.

Name yours.

One mans dump is another mans refuge from all the other idiots.
Im not telling you where my favorite dump is.

 

[Tomahawk]

I hope you are civilised enough to use the heads..

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Apologies (sort of)

 

[Cantata]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again....Sheppey is on the up, you'll see.

 

[Tomahawk]

It would really be on the upward curve if this country could do as the Dutch do and actually build infrastructure. A tunel under the Thames to Essex would transform the place from a backwater into a very much des-res.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

I like it too.

Viva Las Sheppey !

Finally managed to visit the church at Harty. Definitely worth a visit if you like that kind of thing.

 

[oldgit]

Always remember with some affection the large numbers of large expensive vehicles heading for the three prisons around visiting times on Sundays. Some London garages seemed to be doing brisk business in privacy glass.
The stuff they threw out of their windows contrasted with the different sort of crap that the visiting weekend caravanners threw out of their car windows when leaving the island on Sunday evenings.
The most grim time of the year was when the local council briefly stopped chasing the locals for non payment of council tax and diverted its attentions to cutting back the verges along the road to Leysdown.
All was revealed, mile apon mile of coke cans,drinks bottles/ old nappies and just about anything that could be forced through a car window on the move.
Best time of year to visit Sheppey is mid winter...the hours of daylight are mercifully brief.