The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Porthcawl, Bridgend*

Porthcawl, Bridgend Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• The old sorting office
• the Cove
• Pavillion
• The Big House on top of Nottage hill (no, not that one), because it belongs to my Uncle and I spend the best part of my waking day there.
• that little hut thing on the entrance to cosy corner
• The creepy big house in Nottage
• The lighthouse and the seafront.
• Chico's !!!!
• The Lifeboat Station

Demolish It Now Building

• The Atlantic Hotel
• The pointless buildings the school continue to build, i.e. the Jubilee thing
• The 758 old people homes dotted around the tiny town of Porthcawl, I thought young people were the future!!!
• police station
• Porthcawl Comeprhenive School (only kidding, Al)
• THE FAOR AND SANDY BAY. OH AND TRECCO.
• It already has been. A hideous speculative, gerry-built block of flats right on the seafront. There's probably a major political scandal behind how it ever got planning permission in the first place. Blown up by the army last year to tumultous applause.
• The fair...get rid of it all !!

The Best Things

• A walk on the prom when the waves are breaking over
• the sea!!!
• catching crabs under the prom The Billy pool!
• The road out of here :)
• All in All Porthcawl town is a good spot for all you party people out there, and the boring site seeing types.
• The school has a wonderful reputation and gets the best out of its pupils. Although strict its intentions are worthwhile and teach the students good manners and how to live in today's world.
• Returning home from uni which is atleast 100miles from the ocean to be greeted by the smell of the sea air
• The place is quiet enough to relax in, but cab get lively enough to have fun in.
• Great for showing off on bikes
• THE PEOPLE AND ATMOSPHERE. RESBAY TO CHILL ON A SUNDAY.
• I used to live there
• Rest Bay and it's surf. This year gaining the blue flag award (1998)
• The sea. The slow pace of life, low crime rate, stable population. Sleepy resident winter metaphors into holiday visitor summer.
• rest bay.
• Sitting outside the Marine in the hot weather, drinking a few pints & watching the Trogs go by....while we all laugh at them
• Sitting outside one of the bars on the sea front on a hot summers day watching the world go by

The Worst Things

• Bank holiday trippers (but then again half the facilities would shut without them)
• the kids!!!
• Bearded men in bus shelters
• The road into here :)
• The nights are too short
• drama teachers and headmaster - Big Al!
• I have lived in porthcawl for 11 years. i went to porthcawl comprehensive in year 7 and got expelled from there in year 8 for wearing trousers!! The school and the majority of the people are selfish pretentious snobs. POrtcawl Comp is run by a bunch of peferted old men who will not admit that they are wrong. BE WARNED do not send children to the school without finding out the full information on their policies and heads!!!
• It gets a bit too quiet in the winter.
• Young scateboarders who pay little or no tax to keep the town running but believe they have the right to destroy it with their vandal-like behaviour
• The civic trust (boring old farts who want to ban fun) various other whingey old people
• TROGS
• I don't live there now
• The surfing community! Definitely the 'Umpa Lumpas' of Porthcawl's, 'I wish I were still a teen' society! Thank goodness most of us were able to get out to Uni' and leave them splashing about near the sewage outlet on the beach!!
• The trogs who swarm to Trecco Bay and invade the town in the summer.
• Not enough shops. Too many banks/building socities. Nowhere for the kids to go except the prom , beach (see above). The slow pace of life. Preponderance of elderly people who don't necessarily understand the needs of the skaters etc .
• Get's kinda boring after a while......Trogs have to be the most annoying things that ever walked the earth - enough already !!
• Like most seaside tos it kind of goes to sleep in the winter , apart from Christmas when it goes bonkers
• Flat ground where the Stoneleigh Niteclub used to be
• Accommodation for overseas visitors. How can the local economy be stimulated and put Porthcawl on the map if B+Bs like Sound of The Waves double-book and rudely shunt surprised foreign tourists into lodging for workmen? There also appears to be rudeness and service without a smile in a certain souvenir shop with a neo-monopoly in the Highstreet...

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Last updated: 2007-11-21