not-bono-ever
meh
This is a strange one. I love sheppey has been an object of sneering cosmopolitan mirth for as long as I can remember. It’s maybe not that bad. Opinion on Sheppey?
Isle of sheppey revisited
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Earthling
In the 90s my GF at the time was an observer at a Kent health authority meeting where a councillor seriously proposed turning Sheppey into an "AIDS colony". Said a lot about attitudes to HIV/AIDS and Sheppey.
not-bono-ever
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petee
no gods, no malarkey
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Spent a week there this summer/autumn
I think thats the last time! Though tbf it galed the whole time so not on its best behaviour
Apart from beaches the inland walking is pretty shit - beaches are just fine though, in that north kent fashion, but again, cant really walk that far on them before you need to come inland.
The best thing about Sheppey is it has TWO local radio stations, one for each end of the island - its only 9 miles wide!!
Sheppey FM for the West Side and BRFM for the East - you literally can only pick up the one depending what end of the island you are on
Both are solid stations with some nice specialist shows on
Sheppey FM you can literally go and look through the window while the shows are airing
Didnt find the BRFM studios
I want to love Sheppey, but I cant really. Its definitely got its own....thing
I think thats the last time! Though tbf it galed the whole time so not on its best behaviour
Apart from beaches the inland walking is pretty shit - beaches are just fine though, in that north kent fashion, but again, cant really walk that far on them before you need to come inland.
The best thing about Sheppey is it has TWO local radio stations, one for each end of the island - its only 9 miles wide!!
Sheppey FM for the West Side and BRFM for the East - you literally can only pick up the one depending what end of the island you are on
Both are solid stations with some nice specialist shows on
Sheppey FM you can literally go and look through the window while the shows are airing
Didnt find the BRFM studios
I want to love Sheppey, but I cant really. Its definitely got its own....thing
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Worth a visit to the few streets of BlueTown for a glimpse of industrial Victorian Sheppey
We're talking about 4 streets-worth really, but its a unique little spot with a strong atmosphere
Wouldve gone to the pubs there but for Covid
Walking wise the best bit is around Harty, St Thomas church, the Ferry House, Swale Nature reserve. But a day there is enough to cover it
If you like to hide out in a caravan park and feel like you're at the end of the world then Sheppey fits the bill
We're talking about 4 streets-worth really, but its a unique little spot with a strong atmosphere
Wouldve gone to the pubs there but for Covid
Walking wise the best bit is around Harty, St Thomas church, the Ferry House, Swale Nature reserve. But a day there is enough to cover it
If you like to hide out in a caravan park and feel like you're at the end of the world then Sheppey fits the bill
Eventually we all go to Sheppey
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Bus Honeygun
This week the score draws are plentiful
Been twice, but only to do the railway line, and didn't get further than the immediate Sheerness station area.
Apart from all the stuff everyone knows - sheep, prison, former steelworks - the only other thing that sticks in my head is reading that there was a pub there that used to put on Blood & Honour gigs in the 90s, which didn't make me curious to look beyond the station.
Apart from all the stuff everyone knows - sheep, prison, former steelworks - the only other thing that sticks in my head is reading that there was a pub there that used to put on Blood & Honour gigs in the 90s, which didn't make me curious to look beyond the station.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Uwe Johnson's magnum opus Anniversaires (2 volumes), written on Sheppey, is my Christmas reading this year. A mysterious East German writer who lived in Sheerness in the 60s and 70s. Repeater books are bringing out a bio of him which seems as much a bio of Sheppey as of the author.
Sheppey United are quite a decent non league team.
I've only been once, a very, very bleak place seemingly full of shipping containers, caravans and abandoned Austin Maxis slowly going back to nature. Would like to visit again though. I think it's the kind of place you need to spend a bit of time in to find the interesting things.
Sheppey United are quite a decent non league team.
I've only been once, a very, very bleak place seemingly full of shipping containers, caravans and abandoned Austin Maxis slowly going back to nature. Would like to visit again though. I think it's the kind of place you need to spend a bit of time in to find the interesting things.
telbert
Do you like sponge?
I visit Sheppey almost every week to shoot and I went there a few times about 10 years ago to look at a catering trailer. Very, very strange but in an intriguing sort of way. I was hoping to get out onto the foreshore/marshes this year but I don't think it's gonna happen now. I might spend a day exploring over the Christmas break.
not-bono-ever
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a kentish mate mentioned to me that one of the big carney clans traditionally used i love sheppey for their winter down season, hence the amusement arcades and suchlike
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Mrs B has recently completed Anniversaires, (more quickly than she imagined she would) having heard that many people like to read it 1 day at a time.
Anyway, she became so immersed in the work that, back in September, we took a trip over onto the Island giving her the chance to find the plaque on Johnson's house and lay a conker on his grave in Sheppey cemetery at Halfway.
We then went to the far East on the island because I love the bleak, birdy salt marshes from Shellness round to Harty. I think folk who are not familiar with the island tend to write it off, but it has very interesting history, landscapes and ecosystems.
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yes, you have to stick to the FPs and there are restrictions at breeding times.
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couldve done with a walking guide actually - barely even saw much in the way of signposted paths
tbh it was so windy it wasnt a big problem
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Quite a special part of the world, though.
We're going back to Harty again some time in the not to distant; I want to take my old Dad over the over side of the Swale to look back across to Harty Ferry, Uplees and Fav. He's lived in Fav for 88 years and often looked out over the Swale, but never seen the view from the other side. want to get him over there whilst there's still time.
We're going back to Harty again some time in the not to distant; I want to take my old Dad over the over side of the Swale to look back across to Harty Ferry, Uplees and Fav. He's lived in Fav for 88 years and often looked out over the Swale, but never seen the view from the other side. want to get him over there whilst there's still time.
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saw this place
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yeah, I'll take him there for a pint (if they'll serve us one without food?....prob better a wait for bit, tbh?) and my old man will hate it and everyone in it!saw this place
but didnt go inThe Ferry House - Kent Award Winning Dining, Stays & Venue
Whether you’re seeking out unique restaurants in Kent, a country escape or a beautiful barn wedding venue, you’ve come to the right place at The Ferry House.
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i didnt realise you were planning on going so soon!Yeah, I'll take him there for a pint (if they'll serve us one without food?....prob better a wait for bit, tbh?) and my old man will hate it and everyone in it!
probably shouldnt anyway if hes 88
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yeah, have to be post vaccine...Inshallah.
kittyP
Pluviophile
Growing up on the boarder of SE London and NW Kent a lot of people I went to school with and later work, their families had caravans on Sheppey.
I am sure I have been there as a kid but I can't really remember.
Would love to go now though, I do love a bit of bleak marshland
I love Faversham for the same reason brogdale.
Have walked across the marshes to The Shipwrights Arms many a time. It always reminds me of the beginning to Great Expectations
I am sure I have been there as a kid but I can't really remember.
Would love to go now though, I do love a bit of bleak marshland
I love Faversham for the same reason brogdale.
Have walked across the marshes to The Shipwrights Arms many a time. It always reminds me of the beginning to Great Expectations
