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[Brighton] Tar on the beach



shingle

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Jan 18, 2004
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Lewes
As a boy growing up in the 60's and 70's my mum used to take us down to the 'Brighton bathing beach' every day during the summer holidays. I remember my feet being caked in tar every time and a man sitting at the entrance of the loo near the pier with a bowl of white spirit and he used to get the tar off peoples feet and there was always a queue of people. Does anyone else remember this?
 




Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
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Withdean area
As a boy growing up in the 60's and 70's my mum used to take us down to the 'Brighton bathing beach' every day during the summer holidays. I remember my feet being caked in tar every time and a man sitting at the entrance of the loo near the pier with a bowl of white spirit and he used to get the tar off peoples feet and there was always a queue of people. Does anyone else remember this?

That was Savile, the foot fetishist.
 




VAL1850

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Nov 22, 2008
1,907
Beachy Head & WSU
It was the norm in those days, you never left the beach without a lump of tar on your clothes or towel. Dradfull in 1967 after the Toorey Canyon disaster and the Sitikund that exploded off Beachy Head
 




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