Wansworth
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Used to run fertilizer into Whitstable it was pretty run down back in the mid seventies but looking at Perl Nolan a detective based there in a tv series it looks like it’s gone up market around the harbour?
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Bouba
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Whitstable is one of my favorite places and has been the expensive end of Kent for some decades now...famously it was the home of Peter Cushing
Concerto
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Lots of DFL's there now. (Down From London). Lots of new building continuing around Whistable and Herne Bay. House prices have risen sharply over the past couple of decades.
You would not believe what has been happening round the harbour. Food units and craft units, but the main fresh fish sales counter with a fish restaurant above, burnt down due to a workman working in a storage unit alongside. The fish market has been converted this winter to additional food units.
Have a look on Google street view. Check out the housing market using Rightmove.
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You would not believe what has been happening round the harbour. Food units and craft units, but the main fresh fish sales counter with a fish restaurant above, burnt down due to a workman working in a storage unit alongside. The fish market has been converted this winter to additional food units.
Have a look on Google street view. Check out the housing market using Rightmove.
Rightmove.co.uk
Wansworth
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went there first as a child with parents must be in the 1950s,smelt of the sea,run down and hide out for artists……..
Bouba
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I don’t remember going before 1990...but it was by then known as a very upmarket and pretty town....most of Kent was either descendants of the rural poor or emigres from London’s East End (eg Herne Bay)...of course there are posh towns as well.
Of course the world is no longer a recognizable place
Of course the world is no longer a recognizable place
mrming
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It’s local to me. There’s a busy dinghy sailing scene at WYC. The town itself has been “up in the world” for about 40 years now and has many decent pubs, traditional and DFL, and some nice cafes and restaurants. I like to go there during the week, because at weekends the London day trippers descend and it all gets very busy.
Bobc
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Shitstable is now quite posh. Even Herne Bay has gone up in the world.
oldgit
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Would suggest that Whitstable has now "peaked" and its success and the resulting crowds are starting to to deter day visitors.
A wonderful view of the mysterious and romantic Isle of Sheppey on the distant horizon as well,
The beaches are clean and well looked after, frequently with a healthy, bracing and invigrating fresh East wind direct from some polar region blowing onshore.
Essex can be glimpsed but is reassuringly far off.
Eyewatering prices for the twee little sheds just off the beach probably owned by the resident family, which recently built some structures on the beach without bothering the local council and then told folks to "Keep orf our land ".
The sharp eyed will spot the No Nicking our Oysters notices.
Foreshore usually empty of the normal detritus of UK beaches, ie smashed bottles and syringes and South Eastern Water only occassionly dump raw sewage into the sea just round the corner.
Whitstable is really only a narrow strip of semi interesting stuff alongside a steep shingle beach , the town behind the beach being the normal mix of the struggling to manage and deprivation.
Faversham on the other hand is a delight and has everything that Whitstable lacks, for instance some actual history plus more pubs than you could possibly raise a glass in.
Curiously the end of the the world did not come to pass when they built the windmills off of Whitstable and Hernia Bay.
You are very much not welcome to bring your boat into Whitstable harbour and watching the lifeboat launched and recovered in a lively sea is a master class.
A wonderful view of the mysterious and romantic Isle of Sheppey on the distant horizon as well,
The beaches are clean and well looked after, frequently with a healthy, bracing and invigrating fresh East wind direct from some polar region blowing onshore.
Essex can be glimpsed but is reassuringly far off.
Eyewatering prices for the twee little sheds just off the beach probably owned by the resident family, which recently built some structures on the beach without bothering the local council and then told folks to "Keep orf our land ".
The sharp eyed will spot the No Nicking our Oysters notices.
Foreshore usually empty of the normal detritus of UK beaches, ie smashed bottles and syringes and South Eastern Water only occassionly dump raw sewage into the sea just round the corner.
Whitstable is really only a narrow strip of semi interesting stuff alongside a steep shingle beach , the town behind the beach being the normal mix of the struggling to manage and deprivation.
Faversham on the other hand is a delight and has everything that Whitstable lacks, for instance some actual history plus more pubs than you could possibly raise a glass in.
Curiously the end of the the world did not come to pass when they built the windmills off of Whitstable and Hernia Bay.
You are very much not welcome to bring your boat into Whitstable harbour and watching the lifeboat launched and recovered in a lively sea is a master class.
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Parabordi
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the latest series all the scenes with shops and offices were filmed in Rochester!!
Bouba
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The spit of land and beach leading to the nuclear power station Dungeness is well worth a visit especially as it can be accessed by miniature railway…used to be a favourite of mine..rugged and primitive…but the last time I went twenty years ago it was being gentrified…heaven knows what it’s like now
oldmanofthehills
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Still Downtide from Sheppey sewage works, they may have cleaned it up a bit but I bet in heavy rainful overspill season, quite a lot of odd stuffs float down tide. However having lived once in Herne Bay I still rather like the place.
I just get my oysters from Maldon
Poignard
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Oysters used to be food for the poor because they were so cheap. Now they are a luxury.
I save my oyster-gorging until I get to Brittany, where they are more affordable.
I save my oyster-gorging until I get to Brittany, where they are more affordable.
Juan Twothree
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The local sewage works, which regularly discharges raw sewage after heavy rainfall, is at Swalecliffe, a mile east of Whitstable.
Bouba
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Does it matter ? People like to look at the sea in the UK....nobody actually swims in it
Juan Twothree
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Boats genuinely seeking shelter can lay in the harbour for a day or two, but casual visitors popping in for any other reason are indeed strongly discouraged.
There's now a pontoon in the SE corner, but that's full of tripping boats in the summer months, plus can be quite rolly in certain wind directions.
So you might end up laying alongside a fishing boat or the harbour wall.
And watch out for the oyster cages to the west of the harbour.
Wansworth
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In my tool chest I still have secondhand planes I bought round the corner from the harbour,probably turned into a gastrobar now
Concerto
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Returning to the house prise rises, Kent has 6 coastal towns in the top 10 UK coastal towns for greatest prices rises over the past 10 years. Salcome was top followed by Margate.
The 10 seaside towns with the biggest increases between 2012 and 2022, according to Halifax analysis
1. Salcombe, Devon, South West, £1,244,025 - 123%
2. Margate, Kent, South East, £305,191 -109%
3. Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, South East, £308,764 - 100%
=4. Birchington, Kent, South East, £386,040 - 98%
=4. Aldeburgh, Suffolk, East of England, £794,492 - 98%
=6. Deal, Kent, South East, £391,325 - 97%
=6. Ramsgate, Kent, South East, £307,737 - 97%
=6. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, South East, £611,816 - 97%
9. Whitstable, Kent, South East, £483,692 - 95%
=10. Padstow, Cornwall, South West, £790,847 - 94%
=10. Burnham-On-Crouch, Essex, East of England, £418,609 - 94%
Referenced from:
The coastal towns with biggest house price jumps in past decade
Salcombe named UK's most expensive seaside town
The 10 seaside towns with the biggest increases between 2012 and 2022, according to Halifax analysis
1. Salcombe, Devon, South West, £1,244,025 - 123%
2. Margate, Kent, South East, £305,191 -109%
3. Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, South East, £308,764 - 100%
=4. Birchington, Kent, South East, £386,040 - 98%
=4. Aldeburgh, Suffolk, East of England, £794,492 - 98%
=6. Deal, Kent, South East, £391,325 - 97%
=6. Ramsgate, Kent, South East, £307,737 - 97%
=6. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, South East, £611,816 - 97%
9. Whitstable, Kent, South East, £483,692 - 95%
=10. Padstow, Cornwall, South West, £790,847 - 94%
=10. Burnham-On-Crouch, Essex, East of England, £418,609 - 94%
Referenced from:
The coastal towns with biggest house price jumps in past decade
Salcombe named UK's most expensive seaside town
AndrewB
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40 years ago Whitstable was a popular wind-surfing venue. I kept a board there for a while. Until it was realised all the regulars were getting very unpleasant ear and eye infections.Does it matter ? People like to look at the sea in the UK....nobody actually swims in it
It was one of the places that first lead to the concern about sewage dumping at sea, and the formation of the lobby group 'Surfers Against Sewage' (SAS).
P.S. In 1977 I nearly bought a terraced house on Island Wall for £7,500. The average price there today is £800,000!
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oldmanofthehills
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My friends lived on Island Wall. I was jealous as though it a cut above Herne Bay
Bobc
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Why we call it "Shitstable". A great place to pick up a dose of the double-enders when dinghy sailing.