Lockdown, summer in the city. You’re missing the sea, sand and, sand in your sandwiches. Play our BRITISH SEASIDE BANK HOLIDAY BINGO – how many of these have you encountered on your visits to the seaside? After visiting all …
Our trip was not just around the country, it was through our cultural heroes and experiences too. Victoria Wood came up a lot – and not just because half-way round visiting all those piers we found out that her brother …
Did you know that after seven on a Thursday every local BBC radio station transmits a show that has the best of all of the BBC local radio stations. Radio eats itself. But don’t think about the homogenisation of British …
We were on our local BBC station BBC WM’s breakfast show last week with Adrian Goldberg. You can listen here. Just interviewed the fellas behind @pierreview @bbcwm. – a cracking read pic.twitter.com/fkgBFhKrvC — Adrian Goldberg (@GoldbergAD) February 17, 2016 In …
COMPO HAS NOW CLOSED Hi-de-Hi campers, “It’s your genial camp host here, and when I say camp*…” You know at the start of Goodfellas when Henry Hill says “as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be …
Join us to celebrate the launch of a book that has been five years, fifty plus piers and two thousand miles in making. We’ll have a short reading or two, a chance to prove that you are Pier Masters in …
You stick your head through and get a photo taken, if there’s one thing that’s everywhere at the seaside it the sea. But also these. But they don’t have a proper name. A few questions on the internet and a …
Back in 2010 we had an idea. It began, like all good things, in a pub. The night itself is a blurred mess eroded by time and booze but Jon assures me it was my idea. I’m not so sure. …
We never needed to put this in the newsagents window, but I thought you might like to see the advert we wrote for a driver. You can see how very unplanned we were.
Listen (again) to our appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. We’re on right at the start and there’s plenty of seaside mentions until our main interview at about 1 hour 15 mins in. The programme also features Bruce Oldfield …