No not Frantone or Randa. These are much older friends in both context who bought a beach hut on Mudeford Spit some years back for £10k and it's now worth £120k. For a hut on stilts, I ask you?
But we have been there many times and in the evening it's another world, when all the grockles have gone, the Noddy oops mustn't say that now, train has stopped ferrying them up and down and the views across to Christchurch priory are something else especially with a sunset. I have sketched there over the years.
I am hanging pictures at a Winchester Art Club exhibition at the Bursledon Brickayd muusuem first then going on down to Mudeford.
One of the pictures I will hang attached.

I have very fond memories of Mudeford, where we spent a family holiday in a caravan park within the grounds of a grand house right on the water's edge. It'll have been around '67 I reckon. Had to come home early though because it started to rain and my Mum couldn't stand the noise of the rain on the roof.

It wasn't all that posh in those days and I don't remember a train, although I do remember a row boat ferry across to the Christchurch side that cost 2d. At the risk of piling on the nostalgia, we bowled in to Bournemouth one evening to see Mr Pastry's summer show, but he was off ill so we went and saw an ice show instead - I hated it; it was freezing sat there in shorts!!

Guilty as charged Brian! Is there a club badge, or are we not to be trusted with pointed objects? Richard Hearne was an excellent call by the way; Tinga and Tucka Club anyone?

If you have days to spare, have a look at Whirligig-tv.co.uk from where this gem comes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=36N9CUhIG7s

I can only agree with you regarding the madness of location being the sole driver on price. £120k for a beach hut is just bonkers; and even perhaps a bit obscene when one thinks of how a just a fraction of that money might have been spent on the betterment of society; but don't get me started. There's a place near you that is little more than a sandbar but which commands the highest price per sq.ft in the UK outside of the big smoke I believe. Talk about building your house on shifting sands! Luckily, for now, we seem to have sidestepped much of that folly oop t'north, for now anyway, and as you well know as a tyke yourself the phrase "don't tha be so bloody daft" can still be used in serious financial negotiations up here and everyone understands it.

It was all so much simpler when Mr Pastry strode the land :-).

Quote: Aaron Calder wrote in post #5

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Mick and Montmorency anyone?

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Dear Agger, is it to the ABC Minors at which your nostalgic arrow is aimed or, more likely, the Ovaltineys of Radio Luxembourg fame?



I have a vision of all avid Eriba thread followers under the age of 50 abandoning ship right now :-). We are waaaaayyyyy down in the minutiae of what tickled the children of the 50's methinks!

ABC minors

ovaltine, gosh that takes me back, oooo feel sick just remembered the taste of white mixture we used to drink before night

and not to be outdone

That other place may have the most expensive houses but it also has the cheapest parking anywhere on public roads in the Bournemouth/Poole area.
Anywhere on the one way system is free and unlimited, unless they have changed it since June.
I usually park there if I have to leave the Eriba at AL and use the bus pass to cross on the ferry to Swanage.

We had a great day and the weather was superb. Our host is a super cook and did a 3 course meal for 6 people and we left about 9.30 to walk back to the very expensive CP which now closes gates at 10pm.

Glad you had a good day Derek. Fingers crossed that you sell a few paintings :-).

"Closes the gate at 10pm"? Is the owner a fellow painter of Austrian extraction?

That's the CP at Hengistbury I am on about Peter and he works for Bournemouth Borough Council (BCC)

The train down there was call the Noddy train and still is, but Noddy's publishers obected and now it's the land train or some rubbish. Anyway the BCC want to replace it with a much larger land train that already operates round B/mouth and extend it's journey, but is is very big and won't be as frequent.