GREAT IDEA! Then we could all see the towns, country side, that comprise the edges of Sussex. For me that's more learning more of the county. My learning process for other counties is much lacking. We could use a double of you in other counties too. You're my #1 learning source for learning about England. Don't have time for book reading. THANK YOU .
I'm looking forward to "your neverending walk"!😄 I just love Worthing! I feel like everytime you walk down Montague St or Rowlands Road (for example) I see something new. I love all the layers of history too!!!
Dear Richard as South Africans of British descent we absolutely love the UK. Our first visit was in 2018 and we are planning another trip as soon as Covid allows. Your videos are inspiring and well presented in such a warm feel good style. I plan to follow in a few of your footsteps on our next vist. Kindest Regards from SA. Gavin and Kim
This is a fantastic idea Richard, and I look forward to seeing your border walk. You will, most likely, be passing my area, which is a little further west. I'll look out for you!
This is a cracking idea Richard and a great forerunner for something I seem to recall you mentioning a while ago. This is the abridged version of walking round the British Isles!
Loved this. I, for one, love to meander the side streets of a town. My best memory of my trip to Germany was a walk, on my own, around the block. Each of the houses, the gardens, the lace curtains, and the fences. Loved it. Stay safe and Happy Holidays from NE Ohio.
Thank you Richard for all of your videos. I feel like I’ve known you for quite some time. Due to the pandemic, I haven’t travelled much in some time. I was in London with my dad two years ago and did a coach bus tour around England, Whales, and Scotland. I’m a history teacher in NY. I can’t wait to return again and visit more sites. You are a friend I’ve never met (at least not on TH-cam.) Thank you again for all your efforts with posting awesome content.
@@RichardVobes I would really like to donate $100.00 for you to buy some things for your van. I’m new to this, but I will figure it out today. Thank you again for your awesome videos. I only wish I lived closer and was able to join you on your upcoming walk. :)
The pub that was in Montague Street was called The Montague it was an utter dive, on the cabs we did not like picking up from there as it was just a hassle.
What an great idear Richard can wait to see more Would of loved to meet up if I lived that way But now in Somerset So thank you for your very enjoyable walks
An excellent plan Richard & I will enjoy following your footsteps around the rest of Sussex in the hope that the “Sunny Worthing” tagline also extends to the rest of the county, for most of the time anyway.
A good start Richard, I hope that you can complete the round-trip (about 200 miles).You will be spoilt for content along the way.look forward to parts two to infinity.
It’s interesting how there is something intrinsic about old buildings that enables us to look at them and say “That was obviously a cinema, a bank, a corner shop, a pub, a chapel or a railway station” long after their original use has been changed. Sadly this cannot be said about their modern equivalents.
One of the strangest is the boat shaped building with a pirate on top by the town main bus stop. Has been a sushi bar, pasty shop, bank and I think originally a pub called The Ship Inn, which is still evident from it's remains today.
A great idea Richard. If your border/coastal walk ends back in Worthing, can you include a visit to the Widewater on the Brighton Rd. We lived at 349 Brighton Rd Lancing and still have fond memories of this area as a small child.
Great idea Richard. Will bring you round to my part of the word in due course. Much to see. We'll all enjoy it I'm sure. Have sent you an email with title suggestion.
Great to see the town Richard. Along that stretch of beach there is the Canadian war memorial. There is a story or two to be told about about the Canadian soldiers who stayed in and around Worthing in 1942. They eventually went off to fight in the ill faited Deippe Raid over in Normandy. The Normandy beaches are in a virtual straight line across the channel from the Worthing coast. Apparently the soldiers whilst here were a bit rowdy and its been recorded that nearly 22000 children were born to Canadian servicemen during their time in England. Not just a raid on Dieppe then.
A Lancaster crash landed near there too. There is a board on the prom telling the story. Pilot almost hit the cinema seen in the video (now Gala bingo) but saved lives on the ground by reaching the beach.
Thank you Richard. I can't really walk about in my town Bakersfield California USA as we are under some sort of quarantine Style. Bonus! I also get to see some of your neck of the woods and never put a sneaker on. God bless you all.
Hello, the closed pub you showed at the end of the precinct was The Montague and the bingo hall was the Plaza Cinema way back in the mists of time. I used to park my bike around the side of the Plaza when I went to the Carioca Night Club. The Premier Inn was until recently the Beach Hotel and further along where the Travel Lodge is was of course the Berkeley Hotel.
I thought The Beach was now the Beach Residences? (Hence the name) I know it's close by and looks almost the same..I forget how far apart they are or even which one replaced The Beach. I remember the Beach being dismantled as I had a Rowlands Road shop then (2012).I think the Premier Inn replaced the Kingsway soon after (2014?). Another Regency hotel is being dismantled along there too.
I love all the layers of history too. I got excited when I read "...and finally Kent before returning..." because my ancestors were from Kent. Maybe touching the border. I get to see your neck of the woods and never put sneakers on or wear my shoes out. I get to see something new. I've got relatives buried at St. James Churchyard, Egerton, Ashford Borough, Kent; St. Mildred's Churchyard at Tenterden, Ashford Borough, Kent; St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard Great Chart, Ashford Borough, Kent. Eaglegards...
Great start. And heading away from Fishersgate!! I liked the stills snapshots of stuff that had caught your eye. How about from Pillar to Post as a title?
Worthing is a beautifully town, which as yet the developers have not destroyed. A friend, Ray Trader, for many years worked at the bingo hall that you walked past. It use to be the social hub for Worthing ladies. Some prizes were apparently worth several thousands of pounds! It’s good to see that very few of the shops are empty. Always good to look up at the old buildings, especially in Brighton and Hove, along Western Road 👍
Heene Terrace ,used to have an after hours drinking club back in the 80's about maybe he 3rd or 4th building along from the left ,it was the basement level great place
Worthing is very like Eastbourne, which I guess at some point you will get to. Both built during the same period and full of similar buildings. There is even a Burlington hotel in Eastbourne too, I believe. It is interesting to read about how the Sussex seaside developed when the railway came.
Hi Richard, It would be interesting to see if you can find the locations of old black and white photographs, of buildings and high streets from the last century or earlier. You could then find where the photographer stood to show the present day to compare. I’m sure your followers would even send in requests for the future locations on your trip.
I remember when Astons the chemists had a shop at the east end of Montague Street (I don't know if they still exist) and painted above the shopfront was their telephone number, which was Worthing 1 (or maybe 2?). That was a long time ago, when I was a small child. I also remember in the late 1950s when I was about 18, taking dancing lessons in the ballroom above the Plaza cinema where I met my first girlfriend - sad to see the place is now a bingo hall.
When I read the description I thought I'm going to enjoy this, and I was right Richard I'm very much looking faward to following you your journey in this new series great first video, I would like to goto to Worthing pier and the beach. Might wait untill next summer though haha.
Hi Richard. Very interesting start. Of course if you started from the pier you should have headed north towards WH Smith then left. You could have past the old what was Woolworths. That use to be a theatre. I had worked there after I left school. I did come across a person up in the store room. Turned out it was a clown that past on stage. Also the other end of your journey on the clip just missed, although you mentioned it, The Brunswick Hotel. Which is another place I've worked although it's in Thorne Rd, has recently been called The Bay and is back to being called The Brunswick PH. Enjoy the rest of your walks.
Hi Julian - I know I am going to get this the whole way round - I will miss things through ignorance, but it is great people can add the stuff I miss in the comments. So thanks very much.
Nice idea and format. It would be nice for you to use the van overnight though between a few of the places. I like to see van antics and would be a nice way to break up the walks with cooking, finding places to stay, places to wash etc etc. Would bring a new dimension to it.
9:32 The corner building still has remanants of it's furniture business sign in the large cartouche panel on the 1st floor. Not sure how old, probably 1890-1930. I had my old shop a few doors down, back when it was the Sandwitch Bar. The old Ladbrokes (10:30), I think was a bank in the 1960s or earlier, I vaguely remember seeing a sign for it - Old Provincial? (I may be thinking of somewhere else similar and nearby). There are some spectacular little details if you look. Some have been shown in this video. The Beach Residences replaced the regency Beach Hotel around 2012/2014 - the demolition/rebuild period. Similar and close to the Premier Inn.
Hope you find the title.. It's an interesting project and should keep us tuned in and encouraged to get out and about and to use our eyes. Interesting to think that TB was so rife back in the 18th and 19th C's when people were needing to escape to the seaside. Burlington's front is very elegant and typical of sea front hotels.. Very nice. "Boardeine Vobes " ?
The brutalist architecture of the sixties reflects the kind of ideas we are suffering from now. It's interesting to see these streets and roads as l love the Georgian and Victorian buildings.
You may already know of side by side maps from the National library of Scotland. Use the maps to check out old uses of buildings in situ and helps date some buildings too. Love the idea of the series.
I'd call the series "Way Out West". I actually haven't been to Worthing since I left high school in 2007 (I don't think) so I'm REALLY feeling the nostalgia seeing these videos. I've grown up and travelled the world since but Worthing hasn't changed at all by the looks of it. And that's a good thing. Because one by one these towns and cities are slowly losing their identity. Brighton feels the need to run buses like the NYC Metro service. I still haven't worked out why...
A great idea; I look forward to your progress. In a way, I think you are creating a historical document as well; the pandemic, the approach of Christmas, etc. Even though there is a pandemic as well, there are thousands of people walking with you, admittedly in a chair with a cup of tea.
Excellent! Excellent! I hope you follow the pre-1970 boarder as your map suggested (and the closest you are going to get to the original Saxon boundary) which would also bring you along the old Tonbridge (Tunbridge) Parish boundary which passed through the middle of modern Tunbridge Wells, just yards from the wells. I'll post some of my 1970s pictures of Montage Street and environs on the Bald Explorer FB page when you post this video there. The Montague Street you walked down is the same street as immortalised in Leo Sayer's "Moonlighting" (he went to the art college in Union Place Worthing). The old cinema, now a Bingo hall, was the Plaza. It is a shame you didn't venture down Western Place and into Western Row, a hidden gem in Worthing that your American audience would love.
I'm looking forward to the next segments of what looks like a very long hike. It's interesting to see these places, especially to someone wo's never been anywhere near there. Kind of amazing that the shops don't look much different from those in the centers of old towns in Oregon. Sad to see that many appear to be empty and for rent, just like here.
Did you know that a small guide book entitled 'The Sussex Border Path' compiled by Aeneas Mackintosh and Ben Perkins of The Sussex Rights of Way Group was published in 1980. I've no idea whether it's still available or not, but you never know. I came over with a group of French hikers to do part of it and they were very amused to see that it even included a warning about nettles lurking in the corner of a particular field.
This sounds really interesting and exciting! Rye is a very interesting place, full of history! Also for future projects I'd love to see a vlog around the Ashdown forest, as my dad met Christopher Robin I didn't know he existed in real life until he told me he'd met him. I wouldn't mind talking about my favourite spots around there etc.
Brilliant idea, an epic journey begins! Very much looking forward to these adventures. I think the pub you mentioned, now closed some years back, was called The Montague?
WINTER WATERMARK (verse 2 of 4) Splintered rearing driftwood pieces Flotsam in the boiling surf Spewed forth from some listing hulk Yet now of little worth Along the highest watermark Discarded rubbish litters Among the shells and tangled weed A broken wineglass glitters.JB10
Two things!! You should mentioned that Jimi Hendrix/The Who/Pink Floyd all played at Worthing Pier!...and Montague Street is mentioned in the Leo Sayer song "Moonlighting"...Leo was born and bred in Goring. Danny
Quite a task you are taking on Richard, but never the less a great idea, walking the Sussex border. I am looking forward to joining you. By the way is that another new Jumper I saw under your jacket?
You are very welcome to join me, Dennis. Yes, that the last of the recent set of four winter jumpers I bought. The fifth was a gift. I don't want to look the same in each episode.
Good morning Richard. I see you are fit and well, getting some fresh air and exercise, but where is Julia and Joseph? Are they both well. I hope they haven’t succumbed to the dreaded virus.
Cabbage trees on the Marine Parade. Why a New Zealand tree in Worthing? Guess you call them something different there. Just hit me when you went back to the sea front
@@robertbray8590 Torbay palms were introduced here in the nineteenth century and were able to flourish on the south coast due its mild climate. They create a more exotic look and can be seen in many English and Welsh seaside resorts. It’s a ‘thing’ , you hardly ever see them inland!
BORDERLANDS -- Probing the Sussex Perimeter (verse 359 of 360) Worthing is 'exasperating' Mr Pevsner stated.. Part Bournemouth part Brighton a concoction that he hated.. A stickler with expectation miles off the scale.. Fussy and pedantic from which planet did he hail? JB21/22
I wonder how many days of walking it'll take. The back of the Premier Inn is a blot on the townscape and a disgrace. Why do they use this spray render that stains and looks scruffy within a few months .
Like your videos but you could do with dispensing with what at best can be described as the crimson do do. It’s distracting. Just get a poppy in future.
A journey to enjoy each morning with breakfast. You are like a breath of fresh air each day. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
GREAT IDEA! Then we could all see the towns, country side, that comprise the edges of Sussex. For me that's more learning more of the county. My learning process for other counties is much lacking. We could use a double of you in other counties too. You're my #1 learning source for learning about England. Don't have time for book reading. THANK YOU .
It will take a while, but I will do my best.
I'm looking forward to "your neverending walk"!😄 I just love Worthing! I feel like everytime you walk down Montague St or Rowlands Road (for example) I see something new. I love all the layers of history too!!!
I know you like to add additional layers of history, so feel free to point out stuff before I get there, and if I can I will include it.
@@RichardVobes 😉👍
Many thanks Richard
For sharing God bless you and family Amen💌💌
Dear Richard as South Africans of British descent we absolutely love the UK. Our first visit was in 2018 and we are planning another trip as soon as Covid allows.
Your videos are inspiring and well presented in such a warm feel good style. I plan to follow in a few of your footsteps on our next vist.
Kindest Regards from SA.
Gavin and Kim
Thanks so much for your kind words. I hope you enjoy your visit and walks when you come over!
Looking forward to the series. Will help us do some planning when we are able to start traveling again.
Definitely!
This is a fantastic idea Richard, and I look forward to seeing your border walk. You will, most likely, be passing my area, which is a little further west. I'll look out for you!
This is a cracking idea Richard and a great forerunner for something I seem to recall you mentioning a while ago. This is the abridged version of walking round the British Isles!
Thanks John. The project can grow and grow.
@@RichardVobes Going to be an epic series if you're only doing 200 yards a video :-)
Worth it - there is a lot to see that most don't notice.
An enjoyable video and the start of an interesting journey from the looks. Looking forward to exploring wherever it is that you take us.
Good concept Richard and lots of material to work on. Looking forward to it all.
Loved this. I, for one, love to meander the side streets of a town. My best memory of my trip to Germany was a walk, on my own, around the block. Each of the houses, the gardens, the lace curtains, and the fences. Loved it. Stay safe and Happy Holidays from NE Ohio.
Thanks for your enthusiasm.
Thank you Richard for all of your videos. I feel like I’ve known you for quite some time. Due to the pandemic, I haven’t travelled much in some time. I was in London with my dad two years ago and did a coach bus tour around England, Whales, and Scotland. I’m a history teacher in NY. I can’t wait to return again and visit more sites. You are a friend I’ve never met (at least not on TH-cam.) Thank you again for all your efforts with posting awesome content.
Thanks, David for your kind words.
@@RichardVobes I would really like to donate $100.00 for you to buy some things for your van. I’m new to this, but I will figure it out today. Thank you again for your awesome videos. I only wish I lived closer and was able to join you on your upcoming walk. :)
Absolutely love this brilliant thank you so much for these video such an inspiration God bless you good health and happiness to all the family
Thanks so much Jamie
This is a great idea Richard. I live very close to the Sussex/Surrey border path which you may end up walking on.
fabulous!
The pub that was in Montague Street was called The Montague it was an utter dive, on the cabs we did not like picking up from there as it was just a hassle.
Oh golly - thanks for the info about the pub. How interesting.
What an great idear Richard can wait to see more Would of loved to meet up if I lived that way But now in Somerset So thank you for your very enjoyable walks
So thrilled you enjoy them. Maybe meet up when I am in Somerset.
Great idea, I look forward to following your journey.
Thank you! 😊 Very kind.
An excellent plan Richard & I will enjoy following your footsteps around the rest of Sussex in the hope that the “Sunny Worthing” tagline also extends to the rest of the county, for most of the time anyway.
I love your walks through the small villages!
There will be plenty of those.
I’m looking forward to seeing all the walks around the border! I wonder how many walks it will take! :)
A good start Richard, I hope that you can complete the round-trip (about 200 miles).You will be spoilt for content along the way.look forward to parts two to infinity.
Oh Richard you are on to a winner . Just loved the video .
Thanks so much, Ann.
It’s interesting how there is something intrinsic about old buildings that enables us to look at them and say “That was obviously a cinema, a bank, a corner shop, a pub, a chapel or a railway station” long after their original use has been changed. Sadly this cannot be said about their modern equivalents.
One of the strangest is the boat shaped building with a pirate on top by the town main bus stop. Has been a sushi bar, pasty shop, bank and I think originally a pub called The Ship Inn, which is still evident from it's remains today.
LOVE this format of video! look forward to more in the series.
More to come - working hard on it.
A great idea Richard. If your border/coastal walk ends back in Worthing, can you include a visit to the Widewater on the Brighton Rd. We lived at 349 Brighton Rd Lancing and still have fond memories of this area as a small child.
Oh this is going to be a great series! I’m going to love seeing a walk all the way around Sussex!
Thank you.
I am looking forward to this. It'll take a while but that is good news for we viewers.
What a great idea. I look forward to following this series.
Great idea Richard. Will bring you round to my part of the word in due course. Much to see. We'll all enjoy it I'm sure. Have sent you an email with title suggestion.
Hi Stationmaster - thanks for the email - I am behind on comments and emails - but working my way through them. Thanks very much.
Ahhh my hometown, memories. I left in 1988.
Great to see the town Richard. Along that stretch of beach there is the Canadian war memorial. There is a story or two to be told about about the Canadian soldiers who stayed in and around Worthing in 1942. They eventually went off to fight in the ill faited Deippe Raid over in Normandy. The Normandy beaches are in a virtual straight line across the channel from the Worthing coast. Apparently the soldiers whilst here were a bit rowdy and its been recorded that nearly 22000 children were born to Canadian servicemen during their time in England. Not just a raid on Dieppe then.
Thanks, Martin - a lovely piece to include within the video - thanks so much.
Wow! That’s an interesting piece of history. Thanks for sharing x
A Lancaster crash landed near there too. There is a board on the prom telling the story. Pilot almost hit the cinema seen in the video (now Gala bingo) but saved lives on the ground by reaching the beach.
Thank you Richard. I can't really walk about in my town Bakersfield California USA as we are under some sort of quarantine Style. Bonus! I also get to see some of your neck of the woods and never put a sneaker on. God bless you all.
Let me do all the walking Katherine and bring the outside to you. :)
@@RichardVobes 🙋♀️
Hello, the closed pub you showed at the end of the precinct was The Montague and the bingo hall was the Plaza Cinema way back in the mists of time. I used to park my bike around the side of the Plaza when I went to the Carioca Night Club. The Premier Inn was until recently the Beach Hotel and further along where the Travel Lodge is was of course the Berkeley Hotel.
I thought The Beach was now the Beach Residences? (Hence the name) I know it's close by and looks almost the same..I forget how far apart they are or even which one replaced The Beach. I remember the Beach being dismantled as I had a Rowlands Road shop then (2012).I think the Premier Inn replaced the Kingsway soon after (2014?). Another Regency hotel is being dismantled along there too.
@@dcarbs2979 Yes you are right. The Beach hotel was demolished and half the site was for private apartments and the other half is the premier inn
Thanks so much for the extra info, Justine.
I love all the layers of history too. I got excited when I read "...and finally Kent before returning..." because my ancestors were from Kent. Maybe touching the border. I get to see your neck of the woods and never put sneakers on or wear my shoes out. I get to see something new. I've got relatives buried at St. James Churchyard, Egerton, Ashford Borough, Kent; St. Mildred's Churchyard at Tenterden, Ashford Borough, Kent; St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard Great Chart, Ashford Borough, Kent. Eaglegards...
Indeed, Kent is on the agenda - do remind me when I get close, and I will visit the churchyard and find the graves.
Great start. And heading away from Fishersgate!! I liked the stills snapshots of stuff that had caught your eye. How about from Pillar to Post as a title?
Worthing is a beautifully town, which as yet the developers have not destroyed.
A friend, Ray Trader, for many years worked at the bingo hall that you walked past. It use to be the social hub for Worthing ladies. Some prizes were apparently worth several thousands of pounds!
It’s good to see that very few of the shops are empty.
Always good to look up at the old buildings, especially in Brighton and Hove, along Western Road 👍
It'll be interesting to see the county borders and what has defined them. Keep veering right. Cheers.
The cinema you mentioned was the Plaza.
Thanks, Leigh
Heene Terrace ,used to have an after hours drinking club back in the 80's about maybe he 3rd or 4th building along from the left ,it was the basement level great place
I have a feeling I am really going to enjoy this next project! Such excellent videos!
Hope you enjoy it!
Worthing is very like Eastbourne, which I guess at some point you will get to. Both built during the same period and full of similar buildings. There is even a Burlington hotel in Eastbourne too, I believe. It is interesting to read about how the Sussex seaside developed when the railway came.
Looking forward to getting there too.
Hi Richard,
It would be interesting to see if you can find the locations of old black and white photographs, of buildings and high streets from the last century or earlier. You could then find where the photographer stood to show the present day to compare. I’m sure your followers would even send in requests for the future locations on your trip.
That would be great!
I remember when Astons the chemists had a shop at the east end of Montague Street (I don't know if they still exist) and painted above the shopfront was their telephone number, which was Worthing 1 (or maybe 2?). That was a long time ago, when I was a small child. I also remember in the late 1950s when I was about 18, taking dancing lessons in the ballroom above the Plaza cinema where I met my first girlfriend - sad to see the place is now a bingo hall.
How fantastic - great memories.
When I read the description I thought I'm going to enjoy this, and I was right Richard I'm very much looking faward to following you your journey in this new series great first video, I would like to goto to Worthing pier and the beach. Might wait untill next summer though haha.
The beach and pier are lovely anytime of year, but especially when the sun is shinning.
The border walk looks interesting seeing different billing round and towns . Villages looking forward seeing it
Hi Richard. Very interesting start. Of course if you started from the pier you should have headed north towards WH Smith then left. You could have past the old what was Woolworths. That use to be a theatre. I had worked there after I left school. I did come across a person up in the store room. Turned out it was a clown that past on stage. Also the other end of your journey on the clip just missed, although you mentioned it, The Brunswick Hotel. Which is another place I've worked although it's in Thorne Rd, has recently been called The Bay and is back to being called The Brunswick PH.
Enjoy the rest of your walks.
Hi Julian - I know I am going to get this the whole way round - I will miss things through ignorance, but it is great people can add the stuff I miss in the comments. So thanks very much.
Don't forget Richard "Winter draws on"!
Nice idea and format. It would be nice for you to use the van overnight though between a few of the places. I like to see van antics and would be a nice way to break up the walks with cooking, finding places to stay, places to wash etc etc. Would bring a new dimension to it.
Yes, indeed, there will be a bit of that too.
9:32 The corner building still has remanants of it's furniture business sign in the large cartouche panel on the 1st floor. Not sure how old, probably 1890-1930. I had my old shop a few doors down, back when it was the Sandwitch Bar. The old Ladbrokes (10:30), I think was a bank in the 1960s or earlier, I vaguely remember seeing a sign for it - Old Provincial? (I may be thinking of somewhere else similar and nearby). There are some spectacular little details if you look. Some have been shown in this video. The Beach Residences replaced the regency Beach Hotel around 2012/2014 - the demolition/rebuild period. Similar and close to the Premier Inn.
I remember the Beach Hotel and was sad to watch it become more and more run down as the years passed.
Hope you find the title.. It's an interesting project and should keep us tuned in and encouraged to get out and about and to use our eyes. Interesting to think that TB was so rife back in the 18th and 19th C's when people were needing to escape to the seaside.
Burlington's front is very elegant and typical of sea front hotels.. Very nice.
"Boardeine Vobes " ?
I am sure the fresh air did them some good. Something we are again discovering with our current health issue. Thanks Josh.
The brutalist architecture of the sixties reflects the kind of ideas we are suffering from now. It's interesting to see these streets and roads as l love the Georgian and Victorian buildings.
Richard, the start of an interesting journey. How about something like: "My Sussex - Perambulating the Perimeter".
Great name - very cool.
You may already know of side by side maps from the National library of Scotland. Use the maps to check out old uses of buildings in situ and helps date some buildings too. Love the idea of the series.
Yes, I use those maps - love them.
I'd call the series "Way Out West". I actually haven't been to Worthing since I left high school in 2007 (I don't think) so I'm REALLY feeling the nostalgia seeing these videos. I've grown up and travelled the world since but Worthing hasn't changed at all by the looks of it. And that's a good thing. Because one by one these towns and cities are slowly losing their identity. Brighton feels the need to run buses like the NYC Metro service. I still haven't worked out why...
I won't just be heading west, but I love the reference to Laurel and Hardy! :)
A great idea; I look forward to your progress. In a way, I think you are creating a historical document as well; the pandemic, the approach of Christmas, etc. Even though there is a pandemic as well, there are thousands of people walking with you, admittedly in a chair with a cup of tea.
What a lovely notion - thank you. Hope you enjoy it.
Excellent! Excellent! I hope you follow the pre-1970 boarder as your map suggested (and the closest you are going to get to the original Saxon boundary) which would also bring you along the old Tonbridge (Tunbridge) Parish boundary which passed through the middle of modern Tunbridge Wells, just yards from the wells.
I'll post some of my 1970s pictures of Montage Street and environs on the Bald Explorer FB page when you post this video there. The Montague Street you walked down is the same street as immortalised in Leo Sayer's "Moonlighting" (he went to the art college in Union Place Worthing). The old cinema, now a Bingo hall, was the Plaza. It is a shame you didn't venture down Western Place and into Western Row, a hidden gem in Worthing that your American audience would love.
Not sure much the boundary has changed, but I am sure you will tell me.
@@RichardVobes it has in places. Politicians like to mess with boundaries.
I'm looking forward to the next segments of what looks like a very long hike. It's interesting to see these places, especially to someone wo's never been anywhere near there. Kind of amazing that the shops don't look much different from those in the centers of old towns in Oregon. Sad to see that many appear to be empty and for rent, just like here.
Great Richard
Did you know that a small guide book entitled 'The Sussex Border Path' compiled by Aeneas Mackintosh and Ben Perkins of The Sussex Rights of Way Group was published in 1980. I've no idea whether it's still available or not, but you never know. I came over with a group of French hikers to do part of it and they were very amused to see that it even included a warning about nettles lurking in the corner of a particular field.
This sounds really interesting and exciting! Rye is a very interesting place, full of history! Also for future projects I'd love to see a vlog around the Ashdown forest, as my dad met Christopher Robin I didn't know he existed in real life until he told me he'd met him. I wouldn't mind talking about my favourite spots around there etc.
I am looking forward to Rye.
I saw where I used to work on this video lol thank you so much
Brilliant idea, an epic journey begins! Very much looking forward to these adventures. I think the pub you mentioned, now closed some years back, was called The Montague?
WINTER WATERMARK (verse 2 of 4)
Splintered rearing driftwood pieces
Flotsam in the boiling surf
Spewed forth from some listing hulk
Yet now of little worth
Along the highest watermark
Discarded rubbish litters
Among the shells and tangled weed
A broken wineglass glitters.JB10
@Richard Vobes If you come to Sussex county, New Jersey, USA I'll show you the cool spots.
What is your wool knit lapel pin? I never got a good look at it. This journey is a great idea, looking forward to the series.
The wool knit pin is a poppy, but it doesn't lay very flat.
Good start Richard. What about "Sussex -Around the Edge" or just "Around the Edge". Will look out for you in Chichester.
Great suggestions. See you in Chichester.
Two things!! You should mentioned that Jimi Hendrix/The Who/Pink Floyd all played at Worthing Pier!...and Montague Street is mentioned in the Leo Sayer song "Moonlighting"...Leo was born and bred in Goring.
Danny
I didn't know any of that.
I think this could be a great idea. Who knows maybe in 100 years someone with a map might follow your journey.
Hahahah how funny! You never know.
Quite a task you are taking on Richard, but never the less a great idea, walking the Sussex border. I am looking forward to joining you. By the way is that another new Jumper I saw under your jacket?
You are very welcome to join me, Dennis. Yes, that the last of the recent set of four winter jumpers I bought. The fifth was a gift. I don't want to look the same in each episode.
Good morning Richard. I see you are fit and well, getting some fresh air and exercise, but where is Julia and Joseph?
Are they both well. I hope they haven’t succumbed to the dreaded virus.
I am sure they will be along for the stroll too.
Cabbage trees on the Marine Parade. Why a New Zealand tree in Worthing? Guess you call them something different there. Just hit me when you went back to the sea front
OK the name you mite now it as is Torquay palm. Guess the planted them as something different maybe
Cabbage trees - I love that name!
@@robertbray8590 Torbay palms were introduced here in the nineteenth century and were able to flourish on the south coast due its mild climate. They create a more exotic look and can be seen in many English and Welsh seaside resorts. It’s a ‘thing’ , you hardly ever see them inland!
The local council has just tried to remove those palms, but a public outcry has forced them to relent! The Cabbage trees are staying in Worthing!!!!
@@MrNas42 Haha! It seems if something is around for long enough, people grow attached to it, no matter how incongruous!
You never walk into the rain Richard...and stay an English gentleman..!!??..Good so.....greetings from Flanders...
BORDERLANDS -- Probing the Sussex Perimeter (verse 359 of 360)
Worthing is 'exasperating'
Mr Pevsner stated..
Part Bournemouth part Brighton
a concoction that he hated..
A stickler with expectation
miles off the scale..
Fussy and pedantic
from which planet did he hail?
JB21/22
Don't forget Pagham.
I won't!
Have you ever thought about putting your local walks in a book always found there's a lack of local walks to be found
I will think about it.
I wonder how many days of walking it'll take.
The back of the Premier Inn is a blot on the townscape and a disgrace. Why do they use this spray render that stains and looks scruffy within a few months .
Probably the whole winter!
Like your videos but you could do with dispensing with what at best can be described as the crimson do do. It’s distracting. Just get a poppy in future.