Places (been to, or would like to visit).

[Gordon]

Moderator:

This thread has been created to hold posts about the county of Essex that were a derail where originally posted, in a thread in the Christian Topic. They have been relocated here rather than being permanently removed, and added to these are the posts in the thread created by Steve H recounting his recent bicycling exploits.

Perhaps this thread will have a shelf life as a place for members to note places they have visited, or would like to visit. 

[SteveH]

Hothothot.

Flickr album.

[Aruntraveller]

Thanks for those Steve.

Love the photo of Codicote church.

[floo]

Lovely photos, I liked the dinosaurs.

[SteveH]

After about 12 hours under a cloudless sky, I am now beetroot-coloured!

[Aruntraveller]

Lovely photos, I liked the dinosaurs.

That'll be because it reminded you of the posters on this board 

[SteveH]

That'll be because it reminded you of the posters on this board 

I can certainly think of a few!

[floo]

That'll be because it reminded you of the posters on this board 

Now! Now!

[BeRational]

After about 12 hours under a cloudless sky, I am now beetroot-coloured!

I did quite a lot of cycling, and not only slightly burnt, but also a numb bum!

[Robbie]

Good photographs!

Cool music festivals at Knebworth, great place.

[bluehillside Retd.]

Hi Rhi,

So we can have the fun of digging up dinosaur bones and putting them together. Then putting them in museums and rearranging the bits we got wrong. And eventually make films about them.

Ah, that must be it then. Makes as much sense as any other answer I guess.

Incidentally, I was out your way (I think) for a cheeky 50 mile ride yesterday - Mountfitchet, Elsenham, Thaxted, Great Bardfield, Finchingfield, Wethersfield, Sible Hedignham, Beazley End, Stebbing, Great Dunmow, the Easters, Pledgdon Green and back. Absolutely stunning - you tell people you live in Essex and they think "Tilbury" or some such, but for my money we have chocolate box pretty villages and gorgeous countryside around here to rival any. Perhaps we should keep it to ourselves eh?   

[Rhiannon]

Hi Rhi,

Ah, that must be it then. Makes as much sense as any other answer I guess.

Incidentally, I was out your way (I think) for a cheeky 50 mile ride yesterday - Mountfitchet, Elsenham, Thaxted, Great Bardfield, Finchingfield, Wethersfield, Sible Hedignham, Beazley End, Stebbing, Great Dunmow, the Easters, Pledgdon Green and back. Absolutely stunning - you tell people you live in Essex and they think "Tilbury" or some such, but for my money we have chocolate box pretty villages and gorgeous countryside around here to rival any. Perhaps we should keep it to ourselves eh?

No idea what you are talking about. Everywhere in Essex looks like Basildon and the people are orange and bleach their anal hair. Fact.

[Owlswing]

No idea what you are talking about. Everywhere in Essex looks like Basildon and the people are orange and bleach their anal hair. Fact.

EXCUSE ME!!!!!

Their ANAL Hair?

Please tell me this is an Essex Girl revenge wind-up!

[Robbie]

No idea what you are talking about. Everywhere in Essex looks like Basildon and the people are orange and bleach their anal hair. Fact.

Second time this week I've heard or read something about bleaching anal hairs. Sounds painful to me, if bleach goes anywhere near my skin it burns. If I did that I wouldn't sit down for a week at least (but don't have hairs there anyway).

Essex is lovely, Epping Forest, Saffron Walden, The Naze, RSPB Wallasea Island - beautiful places.

[bluehillside Retd.]

Rhi,

No idea what you are talking about. Everywhere in Essex looks like Basildon and the people are orange and bleach their anal hair. Fact.

Er, that’s what I meant to say of course: souped up Subarus boy racing down the A127; fake bake, stick on eyelashes and white stilettos (and the women are just as bad); flat screen TVs bigger than the book case…

Yup, definitely nothing to see here – well worth staying away in fact 

[SteveH]

The first time I ever visited Essex, on a bike ride to Epping Forest, I'd no sooner passed the "Welcome to Essex" sign than a bunch of yobs in a beat-up Cortina cut me up and yelled abuse at me. Fact.

[bluehillside Retd.]

Steve H,

The first time I ever visited Essex, on a bike ride to Ep[ping Forest, I'd no sooner passed the "Welcome to Essex" sign than a bunch of yobs in a beat-up Cortina cut me up and yelled abuse at me. Fact.

Yeah, sorry about that. Mind you, I do miss that Cortina...

[ippy]

Hi Rhi,

Ah, that must be it then. Makes as much sense as any other answer I guess.

Incidentally, I was out your way (I think) for a cheeky 50 mile ride yesterday - Mountfitchet, Elsenham, Thaxted, Great Bardfield, Finchingfield, Wethersfield, Sible Hedignham, Beazley End, Stebbing, Great Dunmow, the Easters, Pledgdon Green and back. Absolutely stunning - you tell people you live in Essex and they think "Tilbury" or some such, but for my money we have chocolate box pretty villages and gorgeous countryside around here to rival any. Perhaps we should keep it to ourselves eh?

The difference between North Essex and South Essex, in South Essex if you buy a corner house it's written into the covenants that you have to open up a car dealership and if you need to put a brick wall around your garden it has to have a small niches built into it at two metre intervals with statues recovered from the slot machines at the end of South End Pier in them.

North Essex is as posh as wot it's described by Blue Rtd, innit, the two parts of the county are worlds apart, if you visit Saffron Walden there are very few of the old cottages you see when driving through the town and a lot of the old cottages tucked away, that you don't see, at the end of numerous passage ways that would be available for sale at anything less than a £million.

Regards ippy

[bluehillside Retd.]

ipster,

The difference between North Essex and South Essex, in South Essex if you buy a corner house it's written into the covenants that you have to open up a car dealership and if you need to put a brick wall around your garden it has to have a small niches built into it at two metre intervals with statues recovered from the slot machines at the end of South End Pier in them.

North Essex is as posh as wot it's described by Blue Rtd, innit, the two parts of the county are worlds apart, if you visit Saffron Walden there are very few of the old cottages you see when driving through the town and a lot of the old cottages tucked away, that you don't see, at the end of numerous passage ways that would be available for sale at anything less than a £million.

Now that did make me laugh    When you say "North Essex" though let's get this straight - it's North-West Essex that God's own garden. Naturally we draw the blinds in our Range Rovers if ever we have to go near Colcheter or Harwich... (though i do know rather a good joke re the latter as it happens).

[ippy]

ipster,

Now that did make me laugh    When you say "North Essex" though let's get this straight - it's North-West Essex that God's own garden. Naturally we draw the blinds in our Range Rovers if ever we have to go near Colcheter or Harwich... (though i do know rather a good joke re the latter as it happens).

Living on the right side of the gates at Frinton (very important) and the gentrification of Maldon, both Northern Essex, Coggeshall, Mersea under gentrifaction, Hatfield Peveral thinks it's already there and gentrified (I'll give ground on that one), Brentwood the top management and the aspirationals town, Billericay/Stock all privately owned homes and mainly not your average run of the mill cheepos

All these places near or on the more northerly side of the A12; now either side of the A127, you'll find your car dealers and giant concrete Eagle statues on the top of the ten foot brick built gate posts about ten feet from the houses etc.

Range Rovers Ha!

Regards ippy

[SteveH]

Horndon on the Hill - that's posh Essex. Been there.

[ippy]

Horndon on the Hill - that's posh Essex. Been there.

Yes funny little place near what used to be something like Ford U K's experimental or research unit, what the experiments or research were, I have no idea.

Regards ippy

[Robbie]

Saffron Walden is a lovely place. My mother and aunt (her older sister) went to school there for several years and were very happy at that school. When my sister and cousins and I were young, we went there a few times for events at the school. It was always a lovely day out. I'd have been happy to go to that school and be in Saffron Walden but the need to be somewhere other than home, i.e. war, was not there in my youth and all in all I was happy to go to school locally. The school closed fairly recently  .

I liked Saffron Walden as a whole, not just the school :-). Beautiful place.

When we're both retired (if we're well), Charlie and I intend to have a holiday going to lots of towns and villages in this country - and Scotland and Wales. I feel dreamy just thinking about it.

On another note I have a soft spot for Barking but that's another story.

We sure have gone off topic!

[ippy]

Saffron Walden is a lovely place. My mother and aunt (her older sister) went to school there for several years and were very happy at that school. When my sister and cousins and I were young, we went there a few times for events at the school. It was always a lovely day out. I'd have been happy to go to that school and be in Saffron Walden but the need to be somewhere other than home, i.e. war, was not there in my youth and all in all I was happy to go to school locally. The school closed fairly recently  .

I liked Saffron Walden as a whole, not just the school :-). Beautiful place.

When we're both retired (if we're well), Charlie and I intend to have a holiday going to lots of towns and villages in this country - and Scotland and Wales. I feel dreamy just thinking about it.

On another note I have a soft spot for Barking but that's another story.

We sure have gone off topic!

A close relative of mine used to work for the Essex educational service, they've now been retired for about five years, the job involved teaching, one to one, the disturbed children of problem families, when you hear about towns like Harlow, Basildon, South End, where the so called Essex stereotypes are supposed to come from, it'd be understandable for anyone to think that's they're the most likely areas in Essex to have these emotionally disturbed children that my relative would of had to deal with.

Surprisingly Saffron Walden for all of it's bucket loads of millionaires supplied the most children, from the Essex area, and also some of the worst cases of these poor unfortunate children for the this special education unit; it certainly surprised me.

Regards ippy

[Robbie]

Just goes to show you can't generalise.

Never thought of Saffron Walden as being a 'rich' area, just a pleasant one. I'll have a look on Rightmove.

Done:- only looked at 3/4 bedroomed houses for sale. Prices seem average and houses nothing special.