The Quest for England: Exploring East Preston in West Sussex
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Julia and I are down on the Sussex coast in the village of East Preston, close to Rustington and Littlehampton. We start at the shingle beach and work our way through the main street studying the various types and ages of architecture, ending up in the park. A thoroughly enjoyed little walk through many different time periods.
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A great look around East Preston, the sound of a shingle beach, and to look at the sea, what a treat.
So pleased you enjoyed it Ann.
🤣😂🤣😂 Julia you were right - Foosball. "FUSE-ball"😆 That must be the electrified version Richard!🤣
Anywho...East Preston was a charming town - even if it did have a hodgepodge of buildings. I too appreciated the fact that they tried to at least keep w/in the style of the already existing buildings (& not muck it up w/ a lot of concrete & glass "boxes").
Luckily not much space now to put too many new builds in the town. :)
Very close to where my Mother in law lives- a lovely spot-she loves it there. I always enjoy it when we visit.
Certainly a quiet little place.
I always enjoy your seaside walks as I live over 2 hours from the coast and rarely get there so I feel a childish excitement about beaches and seeing “the SEA !!!!”.
More seaside adventures in tomorrow's video - hopefully you will enjoy that.
Really enjoyed the video Richard, lovely little place, fabulous production as always
Your shore reminds me of a beach on the north Oregon coast, I can't remember the name, it has a deep layer of fist sized dark blueish gray rocks. When the tide is in, the waves roll the rocks back and forth. It makes a strange sound almost like voices in the distance. It leaves you unsettled, as if someone is whispering to you.
Thanks for the look around.
Is it up around Manzanita & Arch Cape?
We have quite bit of coastline like that.
@@ramibu239 Hello 🙂
Maybe not that far north. I just checked a map, I think it is somewhere between Waldport and Lincoln City. I have been there 2 times, it has a turn out and small parking lot visible from hwy 101. Someone should record it and put it on youtube! How are you doing? Staying safe, I hope!
@@susanolson3611 we are doing good! Hope you are too!!!🙂 Is it Agate Beach? My Dad used to take us there all the time as kids (he was a bit of a rock hound). The one I was thinking of up above Tillamook has some beach that is known as "Magic Rocks" cause the noise the waves make when it hits the stones.
@@ramibu239 It's not agate beach, there is no sand, it's all large dark blueish/ gray rocks in a thick layer. No other kind of rocks, it's hard to walk on. "Magic Rocks" sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out next time we are up that way.
No one I know has the virus yet but I will run out of TP in about 5 days! Every store here is out of stuff including TP. 🙄 Guess I'll have to get better at prepping. lol
The building with the clock on the corner....... Built in 1929 and before it was a pub was Barclays Bank. The clock is a WW1 war memorial for the men from the village who gave their lives
Thanks Linda for the info on the building with the clock tower.
Interesting walk - most of the buildings you saw are inter-war including those shops in a style that is today known as ‘Tudor-beethan’ (!)
What julia was trying to say was the German word for football ‘Fußball’ (pronounced Foosball) which seems to be the word used for a table football!
Loved the coastguard cottages though.
in the 1960's in Hastings we used to call table football ZOTTO!! why do not know and cannot find out. We had loads of Italian students in town so maybe that's why.
Judith, hi. Interesting and nice coast line. Amazed at the stone beach. I live near Fort Worth, Texas. I got a kick out of your walk off the beach. It really struck me that you were walking opposite side of the walk that we would walk. Culture difference right off the start. Noticed a lot of TV antennas attached to the chimneys which is unusual here. A Canadian "A" at ya. Eaglegards...
Thanks so much for watching.
Foosball always reminds me of the water boy with Adam Sandler
🤣😂🤣😂 I think that's what was striking me so funny about the way Richard kept saying Fuse-ball. It reminded me of The Water Boy & his mother (Kathy Bates) would call it Fools-ball.
I checked Rightmove and the modern terraced 2-bed cottages for sale are £370,000 !
Golly!
Nice walk. Nice area. Hope you are feeling a bit better today Richard ?
I am certainly on the mend. Thanks, Michael.
@@RichardVobes that's very good to hear.
Born in 1947, I grew up in East Preston. Left there around 1969. Doesn't seem to have changed much along the small village street, but where we used to play in the felds and farmland as kids is now all houses. My father's younger brother was killed by a jettisoned German bomb during WWll. Both he and my father are buried in St Mary's church. Interesting that there seem to much not as many groynes as I remember on the beach
My cousin lives there lovely place
That sea on the shingle is so relaxing!! You lucky man Richard
It is a relaxing place on occasion.
Oh dear Richard, I could tell you were not as enamoured with this place as you were with Shrewsbury!
Was walking down to the beach yesterday! Interesting point is that you were in the area of East Preston once named Angmering - on - Sea and still called that by some. There is no such place it is East Preston. Angmering is inland and there is story attached to it as you probably know. East Preston was where the workhouse was and when they starting developing the area the new houseowners didnt like the possible association with the workhouse and as the railway station they arrived at was in Angmering they changed the name to Angmering - on - Sea.
How fascinating, Linda. I didn't know that.
Angmering -on - Sea I remember that!
Angmering -on - Sea I remember that!
why does it come up 4 times when I posted it once???
why does it come up 4 times when I posted it once???
Beautiful beach and wonderful sound of the waves but I’m not over keen on East Preston. I saw online a compact 3 bedroom bungalow in East Preston for sale at £650,000! 🤭😳🙈
Golly - that is a huge price.
don't the fisherman's and CG cottages with traditional architecture better than the 60s stuff?
Don't they just!
I once walked with my twin brother from Worthing just past East Preston on a very wintery day some years back- we finally ended up on a beach front café for a well earned cup of tea, then we walked back, I remember it being 6 or 7 miles, so quite a nice albeit easy walk.
The Clockhouse roof stlye is called a Mansard, this is where the roof tiles encorporate the upstairs windows and have a low tile height affording better wet weather protection.
Thanks, Matt for the detail of the clockhouse roof - that name does now ring a bell. Sounds like you had a lovely walk.
Great video, I think Juliea was tatting confused with the German equivlenf of football wich Is fuBall the B makes the sound ss. Well done 👍
Nope, not confused lovely. Foosball is an americanism but likely derived from the german word for football. I was raised in Saudi which was, probably still is, very americanised and in a globally multicultural community so I think thats where I pick up little american words like that x
@@JuliaHartley ah right I get you 👍
Hi there, how you feeling today after last night's show?
I am feeling much better thanks.
That's not East Preston, it's actually Angering on Sea.
Hi Richard David Chave here again have you have you ever thought of looking at Jim Hawkins around Britain walks it may interest you
David Chave - he’s done an interview with him :)
Here we go: th-cam.com/video/Z7tImrehaBI/w-d-xo.html
Interesting looking town. Had a great Uncle Oliver who lived at East Preston whilst working for London-Brighton & South Coast Railway, he sadly died aged 23, leaving a wife and 2 yr old son. His wife remarried and tragically lost an 18 month old son who was run over by a train near the railway gatekeepers house at Itchingfield.
How very sad.
i always thought "foos-ball" was cos the americans with german ancestry were anglesising the german word for football which is "fussball'
Thanks for a a nice tour of some of East Preston. As a local resident (my flat is visible in this video) and fellow travel TH-camr I would be elated to show you around the rest of the village! Please let me know if this is something you would like to do? Take a look at my "The 7 Wonders of East Preston" video for a start if you like! Best for now.
Sounds great! Let's do it when Lockdown is over!
@@RichardVobes Ok great, I will email you on the other side!
A bit 'Snobvill-on-Sea' has always been my take on East Preston. A charming exploration, but not an attractive place to live I feel.
Oh I don't know - you might be a bit harsh there - I hope to return and have a guided tour soon.
Snobvill-on-Sea?? My family have been in the village since 1723. I was born in the village in one of the many Council Houses in the 1960’s. It used to have a Workhouse for the poor. My Grandfather was one of the builders of the Clockhouse in 1929. It’s a fantastic village with many fantastic people. It certainly isn’t what you describe as Snobvill-on-Sea.