A visit to the coastal town of Deal, Kent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Our look at the charming seaside town of Deal, on Kent's east coast.
We fly over the historic beach, where the Romans first landed in 55BC before strolling the same stretch past Deal's Tudor Castle, built on the orders of Henry VIII, as a defence against the French.
We checkout the Timeball Tower, and watch as the ball drops at exactly 1:00 pm. This Victorian tower helps keep the Navy, and mariners alike, on time.
We then take a stroll along its pier, into the English Chanel before returning to ample along its quaint lanes, and quiet streets lined with pastel homes.
If you're looking to visit the county of Kent, perhaps this picture-postcard coastal town is for you?
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0:00 - Introduction to Deal
0:15 - Where is Deal?
0:32 - Deal Beach
0:50 - Deal Castle
1:06 - The Timeball Tower
1:31 - Deal Pier
2:38 - Deal Old Town
4:59 - Last flight over Deal
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I had dinner today at the Norman Wisdom on Queen st! The old town is just gorgeous, reminds me of Appledore in Devon. It’s a beautiful walk down the coast path to Kingsdown, my favourite beach in Kent, so quiet, uncrowded, a lovely view of the channel and has 2 pubs right on the beach!
🙏 Thanks Lucieni; Deal is rather unique, and it's that thing I love about the Kent Coastline is the differences in all the different towns & villages. One of those things we've planned for the coming weeks is exploring a few of the hidden gems along the coastline, the places that don't get as many visits, but still worth checking out.
Thanks so much for your comment, stay safe, stay well and keep enjoying Kent, we're lucky to live in a county like this.
Cheers Gary & Janis
Been looking at the Thanet towns and Folkestone to live but I looked at Deal and I’m in love! It’s got the coolness of Margate and the arty charm of Folkestone, not far from Canterbury and an hour away from London, safe to say I’m moving there in September
Hi,
That's such good news; I hope the move goes well.
We love all of those Kent coastal towns for the reasons you mentioned. They're all subtly different, and we like them for their differences.
When we got our new car in May, Deal was the place we chose to come to for a quick drive and fish 'n' chips by the sea: just perfect.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment,
All the best for the future.
Gary & Janis
@@OurWorldForYou thank you for your reply! Kent is a very beautiful and underrated county in my opinion
The south east coast was my fishing stomping ground early 70s Deal pier was a cod fishing mecca always loved Deal as it reminds me of the great times i had there with my bro and dad . Live in the south of France now doubt i'll live to see it again thanks for the upload ?
So glad you enjoyed it. It's still popular with the sea anglers, but not sure if the cod is so abundant these days. We were at Folkestone on Wednesday, and there was a lot of activity off the harbour arm - did you ever fish there? Also, intrigued, which part of the south of France? We love France and have travelled through a lot of the country, love the regionality. We'd often be there this time of year too.
great little video. and very well informed.
Hi Anthony,
Thanks so much; that's very kind of you.
All the best,
Gary & Janis
I have memories of walking along the beach with my grandad in the 70s.
How wonderful, I don't think that much has changed - well the cars, but I think it the rest must still be very familiar. Hope you're staying safe & well. Take care
"Quaint" is indeed the perfect description for Deal. What a sweet little ditty she is - bless 🥰
Lovely little place, nice to escape to and wander its little lanes. I'm looking forward to heading back someday soon
@@OurWorldForYou I live in Sondes Rd and the Timeball is at the top of my road.
Beautiful presentation. Thank you x
A lovely town as I remember it. Stayed there during the summer in 1968, 1969 and 1970 for about 2 month each time. After that I made a few short visit. After that Deal has always been in my heart. Maybee I should go there for one more visit, and remeber a nice part of my youth.
🙏 Thank you Lena, I think you should - some parts of Deal will still seem very familiar to you, and it has been well looked after in places, so maybe a little bit better. Where is home for you now?
I am from Sweden and was sent to Deal to improve my english and I sure did. I hope to to visit it as soon as possiple.@@OurWorldForYou
Ahhh, beautiful Sweden 😍, I would love to visit, Janis has on a business trip to Stockholm a few years back. I hope you can get back when we have covid under control 🤞
Great video, have you been to Canterbury or Favasham, if not I would watch a show on them, as I like your lovely pictures, and there is a lot of history and pubs!
🙏 Thanks so much, Ian. We've a video on Faversham - th-cam.com/video/DidrGc4Fz1Y/w-d-xo.html - but we've not put one together on Canterbury yet, probably will now post lockdown. Both our parents live nearby in Herne Bay, so we're often in the region. Anyway, thanks for the comment; take care, stay safe. 👍 😀
Love this! Thank you for sharing my very favorite place to live.❤️
No problem at all, glad you enjoyed the video 😍
Thank you for sharing. Love seeing your beautiful video’s. You have such a beautiful place there. I’m missing walking to and by the sea . And the house’s and buildings are amazing. It’s like walking back in time amazing! ❤️ We should always treasure are Heritage around the whole world 🌎 ❤️ to see it opens your heart . My experience Was of beauty. I will never forget it’s beauty. Thank you again for sharing .
🙏 Thanks Nancy - we do feel lucky with all this on our doorsteps. Don't worry 2022 will bring more adventures and more videos. 😍
Thank you so much, it makes me want to go and visit! wonderful place, wonderful video!
🙏 Thanks so much,I'm really glad you enjoyed it - '🤞 one day soon you can visit - Take care 😍
I love this video. Never been there but I have a relative there and they love it! Thanks for sharing this video!
Fantastic, it's a lovely place - maybe one day you can get to visit🤞😍
Very pleasant video BUT I hope you won`t mind me pointing out some important history about Deal not mentioned here. The older part of Deal hides the fact that this was a smuggler town, and quite a number of the houses have subterranean connections, so if the Customs and Excise chaps were close on your heals, smugglers could dissapear into one house, but exit from another - it was all about survival in hard times.
I recall that there were available - in past years, a few tours down these clever escape tunnels :)
Visitors should also be aware that it can be quite chilly around Deal, with an often cool breeze blowing off the Channel. Stone beaches equal fossils and crystals - to pass some time !
🙏 Thank you - now that's an interesting fact, and one we'll pick up on future videos, because the tradition of trying to beat the excise men is one that fascinates us, especially the gangs that made it their job to smuggle, a good example is the Hawkhurst gang - you can probably tell where our travels will take us later this year 😀
@@OurWorldForYou Thank you so much for not minding me offering a few historical facts here and there - once a a historian, always a historian, but not everyone is so appreciative :(
It was all about survival. I have ancestors who lived in a small coastal village in Anglesy, North Wales, and it is a known fact that they ' shipwrecked ' vessels by lighting false harbour lights to drive ships on to the rocks, and turning off the South Stack Lighthouse - a wild piece of coastline in every sense.
Thank you once again for these wonderful tours - I am most appreciative :)
I think all of coastal England played the same games, I know the Cornish & Devonians were very skilled in bringing ships to the rocks. It would be nice to have a portal to view back into those times, I guess shocking would be the word.
A wonderful channel - beautifully shot videos and lots of positive inspiration for travelling :)
Thanks so much, we aim to inspire. We love travelling, and hopefully, there's some useful information contained in the videos. We aim to improve the content when we head out again - so watch this space.
Thanks again for the comment.
Thank you for posting, I have been meaning to travel to Deal, now you have whetted my appetite even more, love the way in which you filmed the houses etc, with no raucous musac
🙏Thanks so much Linda, an absolute pleasure 😍 I try to match the music to the scene (I say I try, not sure I always get it right - especially in the early days). Deal is fabulous; you really should take a look, grab a portion of chips and defend yourself against the seagulls 😲
Its my pleasure to watch your newly found channel, the music was good, use some more classical for your ancient towns, the chips idea is making me hungry and being an animal lover I would gladly feed the seagulls, they need our help, obviously hungry, we take all their food, shows how desperate they are.....take care shall watch more@@OurWorldForYou
Been a number of times, very nice place to visit and walk around
Great place to grab a bag of chips too. Think we'll return after the school holidays 😍
Great content, thank you so much for this! I’m meant to visit in May and was doing some research, but coming across your video, I think I won’t have to do much more haha. I hope you’re well and healthy, stay safe! Your channel deserves so many more subscribers, you’re so informative!
Stephanie, you're far too kind 😊 You've still got to go to Deal - it's a lovel place, and an ice-cream 🍦 by the sea on a sunny say🌞 - Doesn't get better. Thanks again, take care, stay safe & happy travels 😍 - Gary
I live in Deal to very good Video
Thanks so much Yvonne, glad you liked the video - lovely place, and I bet it is getting busy with the endless sunshine ☀️
Love Deal, really enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it - it was a lovely day, be glad when we can get back for some fish 'n' chips 😋
I lived in deal for around 10 - 11 years as a kid. Growing up is realising that there isnt much actually special about it, nor was it a particularly great area. I suppose I only had nearby Thanet and Dover to compare it to, which makes Deal look kind of like heaven. Theres certainly some roughish areas, but overall its not really that bad either, a pretty average town. Ive always lived in seaside towns, and ive always loved the beach.
I can remember going to the Sugar Boy on a school trip, eating some sweets on the beach while watching a man fish up dozens of dogfish under the pier. I also have much more recent memories as a teenager, getting some chippy with my friends, and chucking some stones into the sea, seeing who could throw them the furthest. I think its lucky that Deal never really became a town entirely reliant on tourism and people going there on holiday, because it never ended up becoming as ruined as Thanet is.
Hi,
Thanks for the comment; you were lucky to grow up by the seaside. It's amazing how many Brits don't have access to it, or it was/is just a memorable holiday.
I think the Kent Coastline is fantastic, from Dungeness all the way around to, say, Allhallows (but I guess that is the Thames estuary). There are so many different and really quite unique places now, and Deal has its own identity.
You're right; Deal didn't have the same mass tourism, no penny arcades or holiday homes (no golden sand either), and that made it richer back then, as it is today.
And there is nothing better than fish 'n' chips by the seaside, especially if you defeat the seagulls.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to comment,
All the best,
Gary & Janis
Hey loved this video! Goin to Deal soooon . Looks lovely there ! Hi from Sunny Southend x
🙏 Thanks so much m'dear, lovely little place, very quaint, a bit gentrified, but certainly worth a day out. 😍
It's been years since I've been to Southend, wonder how much it's changed. I'd be interested if there's somewhere like Deal on the Essex coast - perhaps we have to head up to Walton-on-the-Naze? I've no idea, must take a look sometime soon.
Thanks from a sunny, slightly parched, Kent.
Take care,
Gary & Janis
THANKS FOR A GREAT LITTLE VIDEO
Mauro,
Thanks so much, we're glad you enjoyed it
Gary & Janis
Lovely fishing town as well
Hi Simon,
It is indeed. So many sides to Deal.
Cheers,
Gary & Janis
Excellent video sir. Another place I want to go. What was the music when you talked about the pier and the Romans? Many thanks
David, thanks so much for the kind compliments - It's a lovely place to visit, so if you get a chance, then do. That music was 'Breathing Planet' by Doug Maxwell - th-cam.com/channels/whJTv7O8EmDwyvqMBLHcHg.htmlfeatured
Stay safe. stay well, and have a great day (or two) in Deal when you get there 🍻 Cheers - Gary
Thank you 🙂 I'll go there tomorrow 👍🏼👍🏼
Ziggy, I hope not today - there's rain - and the great English seaside needs a little sun 🌞 It's still a lovely place, but - save it for a better day - you don't want soggy fish 'n' chips 😢
@@OurWorldForYou 😄We went, and it rained and rained. Still got a glimpse of the Time Ball 😎 Will go back again in a few weeks. Cheers 😁😁
Ziggy, that's a shame, better luck next time. Have you been to Dungeness? I think you mike like it there given your interest. It is wrongly dubbed Britain's only desert, but it is a unique landscape to discover.
@@OurWorldForYou Ta, looking forward to it 😊 Yes, Dungeness is lovely, some very interesting plants there 🌵 £25 for fish and chips was a bit steep though 😲😁
Wow, that is expensive; was that from the Britannia or the Pilot (just outside the estate)? That rip-off culture really infuriates me - I think a bit of 'naming and shaming', and calling out those who provide an excellent service.
I’m missing the fish and chips my favorite place to get it so very very yummy!!!!🌞❤️
Are you in Deal? There is not better place to eat fish 'n' chips than by the sea - of course, you then have to have a fight with a seagull, but that's all part of the fun. 😍
Cool, the UK is so closeby yet so far away. I hope I'll be able to visit once the pandemic is over. Seems like a quaint little town. Greetings from Belgium. 😉
Fabulous, which part of Belgium are you from? We've travelled a bit in your country, from Bruges, Ghent, Ypres, Leuven, Brussels to Liège & Namur. Anyway, Deal is really close, and oh so pretty, less than 40km from the Eurotunnel terminal. So when this is all over then come visit, something a little different - and that is good.. Take care, stay safe, stay well and here's to a better 2021. 😍
@@OurWorldForYou I'm from Leuven. I would've probably gone to England this summer if it weren't for the lockdown. Luckily, we still have Google Maps and great TH-cam videos like yours to explore places without actually going anywhere. 😊
We only popped into Leuven briefly, to have lunch, but it was beautiful, especially the amazing town hall.😍 We'll be back one day. And as for England, we'll still be here, until then I'll keep the video's coming (Although Saturday's is a little bit German!)
Yep great town, I was born and brought up there.
😍 Excellent - have you been back recently? I wonder how much it has changed. Thanks for the comment - take care & stay safe.
@@OurWorldForYou Well yes lol, I live there, it is still a great place, and one of the few places to still have a great working high street.
😂 - Sorry my friend, lovely place to live, and I hope it recovers well in the post Covid battle. I think the high street is like stepping back in time, in a good way, with great butchers like Rook & Sons, all you're really missing is a Woolworths. Thanks again.
yep lol, and don't forget, fish 'n chips
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That is a very long selfie stick!
🤣🤣🤣 - now that's funny - have a good one 😍
Deal Castle is beautiful I'll give it that but the price of entry is absolutely ridiculous
Sally, we visited the year when we had English Heritage membership, and we also visited Dover Castle, Walmer Castle, Rochester Castle and Upnor Castle so all in it lessened the blow for a greater upfront cost.
I think the best views of Deal Castle are from the air, amazing symmetry in the design.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
All the best for 2024,
Gary & Janis
I missing Deal kent.
A beautiful place and a bit of a hidden gem. It's surprising how many people don't know about it. What's your association with the town?
Very well explained and I like the tone of the voice. I’ve learned a lot. England 💕
Merci Nadelina 🙏, thank you very much. We love France 💘 - in fact being in the south-east corner we're closer to France than most of the UK. Which bit of France do you live in?
Yes it’s not far from France ! I live close to Versailles.
How fabulous, love Paris as a city, although yet to explore the region around it too much yet. Thanks again - take care 😍
Our World For You 💕
Deal"s ok
Yeah, it's not too bad 😀 I think it makes a lovely day out 😎
You should’ve visited my friends’ houses.
I was also sitting in that fish man statue yesterday... so
A sunny Sunday in Deal, must have been beautiful 😍 Which street did I miss? I'll get back there one day soon 😀
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Thanks for visiting - Take care, stay safe
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Very criptic 🤔 - anyway, thanks for the comment 😍
I think you have a typo - coast not cost. 😉
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Offer: to visit this town. Deal or No Deal?
🙄 Now come on - that's a teribble gag😂
@@OurWorldForYou I take that as a compliment
🤣 - you can'tbeat a good laugh
Pebbly. The beach has pebbles, not cobbles!!!
😂 You are so right, roads are cobbled, and that beach is definitely Pebbly, still lovely though. (Unless you're expecting golden sands from a beach!) Anyway, take care, stay safe and all the very best for 2021 😀