A Yorkshire Seaside Holiday Resort in WINTER. During the Summer Bridlington would be mobbed but this cold, windy day, it was almost completely deserted. Most places boarded up for the off season and definitely NO pirate ship rides.

Apparently the bronze statue is of a young girl knitting a special jumper called a Gansey for a local fisherman.

Many many many years ago, as a child I would come here once a year. It was one of the very few big family day trips. Sixty miles from home. That was as far as we ventured most years, so it seemed like it was on the other side of the world. Now walking along the seafront and it looked almost unchanged from those childhood adventures. Half expected to see my parents coming to meet us laden with newspaper wrapped fish, chips and mushy peas.

Memories AGAIN.

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  1. It looks very scenic even on a quieter cold winter day! I can imagine how it comes to life in the summertime.

    The memories of childhood trips are the best and I can vividly picture your parents bringing the fish and chips to you.

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  2. Hi , I like the statue of the young woman knitting a jumper. Her concentration on the task is well portrayed. I also like the whimsical touch of the fish swimming around the lower part of her skirt. It is good to see the work of ordinary people celebrated.

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  3. I also love the statue its instantly thought provoking.
    Plus, as such a young child I actually cannot remember it but have seen the photos, also holidayed here with parents and grandparents. Even in Summer, it still looked quite brisk and bracing!

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  4. “Gansey…” that word instantly brought back memories. The same word is used by those of celtic origins… Scottish, Irish and Welsh. I remember mother using it, although dna tests show we’re 83% English! A similar word is used by the Norwegians. Fascinating!

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  9. Seaside resorts always seem melancholic in winter. I was at boarding school in Bideford the years of bitterly cold winters in the 60’s. I still hear the haunting sound of gulls and the splash of waves on the freezing beach at Northam. It seems you have an equally or colder winter this year?

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    1. Just “because” and a bit of “Why not”, there was a night during a storm, stopping at the YHA at Poppit, listening to the ocean on top of the cliffs, but tucked up in bed.

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      1. It is my pleasure, Gary. I am sorry, I am not that much around as I used to but enjoy every post I see, when I am on WP. Hope you are doing good, dear friend 💖

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  13. I think I’ve only ever been to Brid twice. Once with my Mum, long, long ago, and with my husband and young son about 25 years ago. I don’t suppose it’s changed hugely. We lived on the north east coast and my Mum had a preference for Scarborough (my favourite was Filey), while my husband’s parents always took him to Brid as a child. Small world, isn’t it?

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