Burnham

[lizwilliams]

Came back from Gloucester this morning and spent the afternoon mowing and mucking out the stable, rather like the labours of Hercules, only with slightly less at stake. Then we decided that frivolity was in order and went to the beach, at Burnham - for those interested in such things, it's where Joseph of Arimathea was supposed to have landed, with the boy Christ. It now sports a stout 9-legged Victorian lighthouse, several miles of sandy mudflat, a very extreme tide and a rather nice Chinese buffet. Miles of silvery water, too, and the beach was deserted.

http://www.burnham-on-sea.com/

Thus was our evening spent. We came back via the local-ish pub. We have hitherto been a bit wary of professing any pagan affiliations in here, it being deepest, darkest Somerset, and this evening what should I find but flyers advertising their Beltane supper. What to do when your alternative religion goes mainstream, eh? We'll probably go to it.

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[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

Heh, *snigger*. Sometimes I click on the Burnham web-cam, just for a laugh. What I usually get is a car trying to decide if it can fit into a parking space, or pedestrians being blown about by the wind, or ... darkness.

But, Burnham history, Berrow wreck (which also shows up in the web-site banner slideshow). I lived for 8 years in Berrow, growing up. The path straight across the golf course from our house came out right by the wreck. One day we spotted a chap who'd decided to help himself to the copper rivets that hold the timbers together. So we went and found the farmer down the road who was a parish councillor and he phoned the police and we went back to watch the fun. The 'rivets' by the way, were about an inch and a half in diameter and at least a foot long and made of solid copper. He'd pulled about a dozen when the police got there. :-)

Long after leaving, I became friends with a couple who live in Berrow, so I'm still a regular traveller through Burnham.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! Reminds me of a friend of a friend (who has now got a regular job because he made such an unsuccessful criminal) - he robbed some copper from a church roof, but managed to get the wrong type of stuff (don't ask me what this actually means). He also tried to steal a statue from someone's garden and put his back out, so that the householder had to take the doubled-up would-be burglar to casualty, and was nearly electrocuted stealing metal from what he thought was a disused railway siding, but which turned out to be the main London-Brighton line...

You couldn't make it up.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

We've been to Burnham a couple of times, for the autumn carnival displays, which we enjoyed. As for Burnham itself, though, it seemed inhabited by some of the least welcoming people I've ever met - and I spent 5 years living on the Isle of Man where they regard the Vikings as bloody comeovers.

That said, they were nice and friendly at the local nuclear power station...

[carl-allery.livejournal.com]

You may have caught the fall-out from Burnham basically depending on tourists for its living now. It really gets crowded in the summer and I know the hordes of holiday-makers are an annoyance for the locals. :-(

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I can only speak for the pub and the local Chinese, where everyone was very pleasant!

And indeed we watched the twinkling lights of one of our quaint olde English nuclear power stations across the water. Can't say I'm thrilled to be living so close to Hinckley Point, given that the Bristol Channel has already had one tsunami...

[lullula.livejournal.com]

I remember going there, was that the place where we were at the carnival and got stuck in the mud?

As an actual reply to this post - I liked Burnham, we stayed at the caravan park which was close to the sea. I remember one evening me and Mum went to the beach at night, when there was fireworks on, it was very beautiful :)