#33

Not really Essex coast, but always wanted to visit the Maunsell Sea Forts

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#35

This video was filmed in Dungeness and is a good summing up of it

#36

Is it for a holiday or some kind of project? I know someone cheekily said Brighton but you could literally pick anywhwere between Brighton and Eastbourne on a grey day and it’ll be pretty bleak, like Rottingdean, Peacehaven, Seaford, Newhaven (or Worthing on the other side)

There’s also a patch of the pebble beach in Hove-Portslade that’s a stones throw (wey) from a live, open sewage plant which is about as bleak as it gets

#37

I’d quite like a small wall cavity I could put a statue in. Any ideas?

#38

They look like broken down HG Wells Martian craft. Big fan.

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#39

^^^

#40

I was hedging my bets that local insider advice would maybe coax out some of the secret

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#42

Bleak AF

#43

You can get a tour around, in a hard hat and full PPA. Tell me this isn’t cool, I dare you.

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#44

My original post will prob appear in a sec…
But!
Canvey isn’t desolate/bleak but it’s quite run down and grim so might not be what you’re after. The abandoned jetty is good though

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#45

Read this as bench

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#46

Or Dungeness.

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#47

Dead artist Derek Jarman has a little cottage there which is viewed as an art installation even though that wasn’t his intention. I think thats what makes it cool.

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#48

I used to go fishing at Dungeness with my dad when I was a kid. The sea got deep real quick so you could cast off from the shore and catch cod, mackerell and all sorts.

#49

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#50

Romney / hythe / dymchurch? Camber? I agree that dungeness is a good shout

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#51

I’ll be honest, £35 doesn’t sound like a great deal for a bespoke power supply (Apple charge about £70 or something) but it depends on how much the kit cost you total?

Also, how did the current one die? I mean your statutory rights are still in effect and if you’ve only had it a year or so totally contact them and ask for a replacement because this sort of thing shouldn’t just break without something major going on.

#52

There are some really bleak stretches on the Isle of Sheppey but it’s a bit local shop for local people on there, I wouldn’t recommend visiting unless you had to.

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#53

Likewise, the stretch of the North Kent Marshes from Cliffe in the south west to the Isle of Grain in the south east is properly desolate - although unlike Sheppey I would recommend.

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