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• Erm... Bognor isn't ALL bad - really. There are plenty of nicer areas, and there are plenty of decent people too. As the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together" - maybe all the negative comments on here are from people who have more in common than they'd like to admit to with the so-called 'scum' etc encountered in the town's shadier dives... Just a thought.
• Leaving bognor
• Entering Bognor from the north, it's nice to see the display of honesty that inspired the 'Town Cenre' signpost; adjacent to these words there's an icon of a bed. What does that tell you? I also liked the sign on the old Terminus pub a few years back after a few letters had fallen off to make it read 'E MINUS'.
• Beach sea sun and lack of visitors caused by the council!
• THE DOLPHIN CAFE .A NICE WALK WHEN THE TOURISTS HAVE GONE.FISHING.HOTHAM PARK
• Everything!!!
• It's not until you move out of Bognor that you realise that it's not such a bad place. I only live in London, so i can get back easily, but i still miss being able to walk along the beach, get a proper fish supper (London Chippies are crap) and sleep peacefully at night without 84 bus routes outside my window and the early morning London to New York Jumbo Jet making so much noise that i think it's gonna crash into my garden!!! I'm only 27 now but i bet that when i retire it will be back in Bognor.
• the beach, some of the shops
• erm......well.....erm.....not a lot!!
• The sun, the sea and the peace and quite. I have lived in a lot of places and ask Bugger Bognor? - no, bugger the rest of the world as this is God's country and the only place to be.
• im still looking for them, the place leaves a lot to be desired
• In life are free
• The sea, the people, Hotham Park
• you know you wont have to leave in bognor all your life
• smackheads
• The sea its what Bognor is famous for !
• I'm moving back to the civilised county of Kent very soon
• about bognor or life? Sex and love is the best thing about life the best thing about bognor is the tightnit grup of friends living there.
• Seafront
• The Poeple in Bognor are on the whole sound down to earth people, we have to be because Bognor has been left to rot by the council, so we are left to make our own fun. There is also a shed load of decent house parties to do to if you know the right people
• NUFFIN
• this is bognor no best things
• The Sea, The Beach, sea breezes on hot days.
• Rox - see Worst Things also Sunshine The All-Singing Mayor - see Worst etc People who want to make it a much better place
• sea, sunshine!!! near brighton
• Goin to Sheiks cause all you mates go there on a saterday night. you see a wide variety of slappers and freaks, which is always a laugh! Its an experience and l will never forget my many night out!
• -99p shop -the atmosphere of intense death and smell of dog turd
• All Day Breakfast at The Old Barn in Felpham
• All the sun and sea air
• Road sweepers.....I saw one last year!....honest (Akin to Roswell....Yeti...etc)
• Sunshine. Lots of it. People with friendly attitudes.
• The sound of the sea on the pebble beach....
• Bognor is quiet a sleepy place ( except when all the holidaying Butlin lot come to stay!) but as Ive spent half my life here and grew up in dumpy London Id say its a good pretty safe place to life and West Sussex is pretty beautiful.
• The Bognor Fun bus is the best thing in Bognor!
• Are you taking the piss.
• You certainly need to visit Ford sunday market, great for bargain hunters & the like, but wander round & price things before you buy them, more often than not you'll find something cheaper a few stalls up the way. Wear comfy shoes though this one is quite big...oh yes..don't forget to wear protective ankle bands for those formula one prams!!
• You certainly need to visit Ford sunday market, great for bargain hunters & the like, but wander round & price things before you buy them, more often than not you'll find something cheaper a few stalls up the way. Wear comfy shoes though this one is quite big...oh yes..don't forget to wear protective ankle bands for those formula one prams!!
• A lot of us are a bunch of wingers and that really annoys,We live between the sea and the best countryside ever and not to far from London for gods sake whats there to moan about.
• The Box
• warren sutch
• falling asleep on the beached pissed after a night out sheiks
• Bognor Regis Town Football Club
• Bognor Regis Town F.C "The Rocks"
• Sun and the sea in Summer, and in the winter the peace and quiet I can't get in London
• This Town - those who have lived here, or who cannot leave, or who come back, or who make this a markedly livlier site than for most Towns, we all are attached to the area by invisible elastic. Yes, there are lots of old people, but that's no crime. It's also the Town with the fastest growth in young families in West Sussex, it's a low income place for many. It's also full of, I mean, interesting coves. Where else do you find, for example, a Town which actually called a Poll (using little-known powers) on whether it wanted its District Council even to exist - and in three parishes, polls of around 30% of the electorate came up with an answer, 9 out of 10 wanted their Council (Arun) disbanded and replaced by something more accountable. And this before the local government commission was even heard of. I've even seen a march, mainly of old dears, who, when they had not been satisfied by the Council's chief executive, threaten to occupy the Town Hall. This is a Town which also can convince the local commercial radio station that amateurs can produce creditable programmes - even a classical show.
  Bognor, of course, is a joke. And that's what it should be. It's biggest joke is that we have a terrific climate (the mysterious Blue Circle when everywhere around is being clobbered with foul weather) but we also have right do-do's when it comes to promoting its sheer attractiveness of climate. This is a town of misfits, who KNOW it can be made into a little paradise if only we can all get our act together. Events like Birdman and the silly Panto Horse Derby last year - this is what makes Italian, German and even Japanese TV come to Bognor. The Town needs to play this up. You need to enter those events - send a query to fairplay@arunet.co.uk and ask about entering Birdman, Panto Horse Derby and Ugly Sisters Three-Legged Race, Sunday 3rd August 1997.
• Bognor Regis Football club (The Rocks) ,our army of hardened drunken supporters, all of our songs and chants, and our hatred of Worthing F.C, Aldershot F.C
• I used to live in Bognor Regis about 24 years ago, but my family moved, much to my despair! I lived in Rose Green and went to the middle school there around 1972 - 1974. My Mum (Ann) used to work in the sweet shop which was an estate agents when I was last there. It was just across the street from Target's the butchers. Although I now live in Toronto Canada, my heart will always be in Bognor. If anyone wishes they can contact me at gregsal@myna.com Sal Snowden.
• I am a former resident of Bognor Regis where I worked on the buses, numbers 69 to Horsham, 31 to everywhere on the south coast, and 50 locally to Pagham, Middleton and suchlike. Bognor is a beautiful place and the girls of nearby Yapton are renowned. I am latterly the founder of the major Irish web site Atlantic Island
• Hi! I'm Norwegian although my grandmother is English, but when she got married and moved to Norway, my great grandfather and great grandmother moved to a little nice house in Bognor. I've been to Bognor every summer of my life (almost) and I love the place. But I don't think I could ever live there. I mean, it's a great place to spend the summer vacation, but I don't know really what I would do there the rest of the year. But I love the place, and now my great grandfather is moving to Nottingham, and I won't have a place to stay in when I'm coming to Bognor this summer. Can someone please tell me about cheap, good hotels (or youth hostels) in Bognor??? Or does someone plain and simple just want to write with me??? My address is: gry@sds.no
• My grandparents lived in Bognor - Little Bognor to be exact - I visited when I was 9, in 1958 (and then again in 1972). It was a magical place for me, coming from Canada for a summer visit as a child - the ocean, Rupert comics, the buses, the lane ways and gardens. So I have very treasured memories which may not match a current reality at all. I plan to visit this spring (96) for a few days. In 1978 visit, I was surprised how much was the same. I wonder if there has been much change since then.
• I lived in Bognor Regis all my life and now live in Port Maquarie Australia. I just spent a week in Bognor and there was a heat wave 32C. Last month was the coldest May on record. The best part of Bognor is still West Bognor with the beach huts. An inexpensive hotel is The Blackmill House Hotel in Pricess Avenue (off Aldwick Road). Just ask for Gerrard and say his mate Peter from Australia sent you. Let me know how you get on. If you like walking try the walk from Church Farm Pagham to Siddlesham on a nice day. Good pub at the end Crab and Lobster, allow 3/4hrs there and back, and watch the tide. I went to the old Nyewood School around 1953 Mr Mohan was the head. Any body remmber the Old Sports And Radio Shop I used to sell fish hooks there after school.
• I lived in Bognor Regis till I was 18 over a year ago. Over the last year I have been in Winnipeg ,Manitoba, Canada where I have made lots of friends at Balmoral Hall School. I have to say that the comments I read which run down Bognor Regis are Outrageous - I mean Bognor Regis is the FUN CAPITAL of the South Coast. Where else can you swim in blue clear water, lie topless on a sandy beach and end in a perfect day at the pub of your choice on the seafront? After you have spent a winter in Winnipeg, Canada you will never criticize Bognor Regis again.
• I grew up in Bognor Regis. Went to Nyewood C/E Junior School then Felpham Comp. then Chichester College. I think it was a great place to grow up. I used to go to Bognor Regis Yacht Club a lot and learnt to sail there. My Mother and Father still go there and actually my Dad is Treasurer. Go see him there, Peter Adams, tell him Caroline sent you and ask him to buy you a pint! I was back in Bognor last Christmas and major changes include:
  • The Wimpy is no more!
  • A new pub where Sainsburys was called "Hatters" it doesn't have music or a pool table but is actually not a bad pub!
  • There is a new sea wall all along the seafront so you can no longer see the sea as you drive into town!
  • Oh and the biggest news of all is the new public swimming pool that has opened at the Arun leisure centre. They had a little trouble in the beginning with all the water leaking out but I think they've taken care of that now.
  I really enjoyed growing up in Bognor that doesn't mean I'd want to live there again; but it is often the sunniest place in England!!
• Wow, I nearly wet myself reading the comments about Bognor.
  I lived in Bognor Regis from 1981 (2nd year of Secondary School) until 1986. The best thing about Bognor is that it made me decide to get off my ass and work to get a good career so I wouldn't end up back there one day.
  So now I live in San Francisco and I'm very happy. Do I miss the dullness and apathy of the place? What do you think - of course not!
• My Mum and Dad have got a Rest Home for old People in Bognor Regis called Beachmount, it is painted bright green. It is not the best thing in Bognor Regis, but it is nice for the old folk who live with us. I go to school in Chichester, and I think Bognor is much better. It has a happy atmosphere.
  The worst thing about Bognor is the dreaded Southcoast World which attracts all kinds of undesirables to Bognor who subsequently leave after the season has finished and then claim benefit. It is a dump, and it is a shame that the IRA did not bomb that instead of the town centre!!
• Oh well, Bognor isn't exactly a kicking place, but if it's hedonism you are after then check out London or Amsterdam. For any poets among you it may be worth checking out William Blake's cottage in Felpham, which is a village to the east of Bognor, and the cottage is next to a pub called 'The Fox'. The poet/mystic lived there for about two years. I moved to Bognor from South Wales eight years ago which at the time was a bit of a culture shock! I now live near the entrance to Butlins which is a place which in my opinion could do with renovation from a bazooka.
• I lived in Bognor from 1970 up until September 1995 when I started University in Kingston. I still return home every few months and visit my family and friends who are all still residents. The town has had some major facelifts over the years, most for the better. Butlins has been tidied up and we have some new pubs which have opened. In the summer Bognor is the place to be - warm weather,cool beer and pretty girls everywhere. However winter is a different story, the pubs are only busy at weekends and the sea winds are a bit chilly. What Bognor desperately needs is a decent nightclub and possibly a multiplex cinema, ice rink, bowling alley etc. This will bring more young people and their money into the area and improve the reputation of the town. It is about time people realized Bognors' potential before it is too late.
• I am Bognor born and bred and proud of it. It may not be the most exciting place in the world during the winter, but what is better than a walk along the seafront on a hot sunny day, ice cream in hand, dodging the miniature train as it runs down the tourists.... OK, so we lost the Clown Convention and we now have rival Birdman Rallies elsewhere, and the average age of the locals is 75 but do Bognorians give up? NO! TAKE UP YOUR ZIMMER FRAMES AND FIGHT FOR THE MUCH-MALIGNED NAME OF BOGNOR! My earliest memories are of walks in Hotham Park, which remains a great place to go for football, sunbathing, or eating Kentucky Fried Chicken on a balmy summer's evening. The new(ish) mini-golf course on Waterloo Square is a good laugh and great value, and really smartens up the seafront! The biggest disaster to befall Bognor was when Marks and Spencers closed down; the remaining chain stores make the shopping precinct anonymous and boring.
• I lived in Bognor for 18 years - I now live in Cyprus and have done for nearly five years. I miss Bognor only at the very lowest points in my life - although the friends I grew up with there are the best - and always will be. I haven't been back for over two years - and I'm desperate to go to Hatters (although beer here is only 50p a pint!). If anyone reads this and went to Bognor Comp from '81 - '88 and remembers Lisa Stevens (aka Burnt Toast!) - email me at lisa.efthymiou@orbit.net. There'll always be a place in my heart for good ol' Bognor - but I wouldn't go back to live there for no amount of money! Mind you - the India Garden take-away in Hawthorn Road does the best curry I've ever tasted - and believe me I've tasted a few! Bless me - I think I'm getting homesick! (NOT!)
• I lived there as a young adolescent in the mid 60's and I thought it was the geatest place to be a kid. Me and my brother would hang out in the acrcades along the waterfront, look at the naughty postcards on the pier, skateboard on the promenade, roam the woods of Hotham Park (it had a cool greenhouse and a wimpy boat ride too), let our dog 'retrieve' peoples boats out of the boating pool, or spend all afternoon in on of the three movie houses. I remember that the Odeon would show the first run movies, new releases, etc., and the other two would show 'B' movies and stuff from Hammer. At the Odeon, between shows, some girl would walk around with a tray of cigarettes and choc-ices. There was a place on the pier where this little old man would sit in a booth and make all kinds of colored glass animals and stuff, I could watch him for hours. We take the train and go see Pompey (Portsmouth) or the Saints play soccer, or go explore the castle at Arundel (and row boats in the moat), or go down to the more secluded beaches out towards Pagham and watch couples groping and snogging.
  I went to elementary school (I don't remember what it's called in England) at Pennyfields, which was somewhere out towards Elmer Sands west of town. After that I went to Blessed Philip Howard in Barnham, I would take the train each day there and back. We lived in a suite of rooms over a gift shop in what I believe was Bedford Street. There was a coffee shop called 'Beyond Mombassa' across the street, and we were just around the corner from the high street near the bus station. My parents worked as Redcoats at Butlins, so I could get in there free and hang out.I remember in the 60's when the mods and rockers would come down and rumble on the beach. In the summer the town would attract teenagers from all over the UK and europe. The town also had its share of greaser and teds; it had fishermen and artists, eccentric locals, and a host of people that would work during the tourist season then just hang on during the off-season. People watching was my favorite pass-time. I have no idea what it would be like to visit there now, perhaps as an adult it would seem dull and boring, but as a kid it was a wonderful place to grow up.If there is anyone there that remembers a Terry Cunningham ('TC') from '63 thru '68, and happens to read this, I would appreciate a line.
• Worst were the long boring days of winter, the tow day rains stuck inside with only two channels: BBC and ITV.
• the sun always shines in bognor - especially bognor yacht club
• "Old Bognor" - Sir Richard Hotham built some wonderful town houses in the 1780s, including most of the large ones in Bognor College campus, and Hotham House. The park was always a great place to go, until the Great Storm of 87' brought down all the trees.
• well the best things ??? I was in Bognor from about 6 months to the ripe old age of 18 years old then left for 14 yrears in New Zealand.... well sorry but can only remember the good times,,,,,like we all gate crashed Arundel Castle and winee and dined with the local Lords and Ladies they thought it was fun we were the local Teds or Bikies depending on how we dressed.....I remember the early years standing out the front and watching a sea mine float through the pier yes right through the pier and blew up at pagham/ I remeber even before that as about a three year old sitting on the beach crawling through the barbed wire and being rescued by a home gaurd man.. the bomber that was shot down by the gun on the end of the pier it crashed into the gas tank near..the fridge factory... we had the fish and chip shop at north bersted,,,,I think the L>E>C started there......over the road was the old Irony ....cause they used to dump their old shavings. we found a case of 303 and hid behind some clumps of grass as they exploded we put them in a tin on a fire.......an aircraft wing tank we made into a boat on the river rife... Westloats School for boys....mmmmm who shot out the school windows......should I confess ?? well .well it wasnt a gun it was a catapault....Mr meggit was my school master at the time......the love of my life Janet Eastland Hi Janet.....well It really was love..but not to be ? hope life treated you well.would love to hear from you ...... and Pauline Pullen wonder where she is ??..must be getting old am starting to Ramble ??well my name is Ron cole and my E-mail is berty@one.net.au love to hear from anybody
• Most of the residents accept that the place is crap. But we ALL have a good laugh
• The Beach

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