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https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-opinion/visitor-describes-ghost-town-visit-9256831?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

 

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Good and accurate poem 

 

Empty

The pretty streets beside
the sea

Belie a sickening sound

Of morbid wealth that took by stealth

The buildings in the town.

And most of them are empty,

Few people can be found.

They made their many millions

Moving money in the Smoke

Before they saw a stunning view;

Then bought it off some bloke.

And now that small investment

Has doubled at a stroke.

Many a fierce fishermen

Who lived in homes like these,

Would come home to their weary wives

From work upon the seas

And spend their Sunday mornings

In church upon their knees.

Their sadness is to see their homes

Closed up, silent and bare.

Only open when their rich

Plush owners can be there.

No local accents sounding

Is more than they could bear.

Cornish folk are now priced out

Of property by the sea.

And through the blinded
windows

We see prosperity,

Though now these streets
are empty

Except for you and me.

A single, silent seagull

Swoops upon its prey.

Then verdant country greets us

As we drive away

And look back on the
ghost town

As silence mars the day.

Francis Charters

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2 hours ago, Saul said:

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-opinion/visitor-describes-ghost-town-visit-9256831?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

 

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Good and accurate poem 

 

Empty

The pretty streets beside
the sea

Belie a sickening sound

Of morbid wealth that took by stealth

The buildings in the town.

And most of them are empty,

Few people can be found.

They made their many millions

Moving money in the Smoke

Before they saw a stunning view;

Then bought it off some bloke.

And now that small investment

Has doubled at a stroke.

Many a fierce fishermen

Who lived in homes like these,

Would come home to their weary wives

From work upon the seas

And spend their Sunday mornings

In church upon their knees.

Their sadness is to see their homes

Closed up, silent and bare.

Only open when their rich

Plush owners can be there.

No local accents sounding

Is more than they could bear.

Cornish folk are now priced out

Of property by the sea.

And through the blinded
windows

We see prosperity,

Though now these streets
are empty

Except for you and me.

A single, silent seagull

Swoops upon its prey.

Then verdant country greets us

As we drive away

And look back on the
ghost town

As silence mars the day.

Francis Charters

Not unlike north Norfolk, parts of Wales, southwold and the lakes.

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1 hour ago, XTreme said:

Meanwhile in Swansea......

Get some rubber bullets going. Sting like fuck I'm told.

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1 hour ago, XTreme said:

Meanwhile in Swansea......

Alot of them seem to be nothing more than kids.......what a fucking world its becoming....

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10 minutes ago, Clive said:

Alot of them seem to be nothing more than kids.......what a fucking world its becoming....

It wasn't much different 50 years ago.

I can remember community centres getting petrol bombed, and full scale battles on the Kingsway!

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2 hours ago, Buckster said:

So a bit shit then.

It is for us that remember how vibrant and alive the town used to be.  I don't claim to have any answers but its just fucking sad.  

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1 hour ago, Catteeclan said:

Not unlike north Norfolk, parts of Wales, southwold and the lakes.

Anywhere that's not soulless urban sprawl it seems like.   The rural parts of Britain is becoming an enclave for the rich and entitled, anyone that actually lives and works there are eventually driven out by generation.    My kids will never be able to get a house where I live.    Fine for me that my ex local authority house is worth stupid money but what's the point if my family have to leave.  It's just beyond shit and the community is ripped apart.  

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35 minutes ago, Saul said:

It is for us that remember how vibrant and alive the town used to be.  I don't claim to have any answers but its just fucking sad.  

Maybe all the “celts” died.

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5 hours ago, Saul said:

Anywhere that's not soulless urban sprawl it seems like.   The rural parts of Britain is becoming an enclave for the rich and entitled, anyone that actually lives and works there are eventually driven out by generation.    My kids will never be able to get a house where I live.    Fine for me that my ex local authority house is worth stupid money but what's the point if my family have to leave.  It's just beyond shit and the community is ripped apart.  

How much would your house be worth now Saul?

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8 minutes ago, XTreme said:

How much would your house be worth now Saul?

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9 minutes ago, XTreme said:

How much would your house be worth now Saul?

An identical one to mine but with half the garden sold last month for £336,000.  But its just numbers everything down here is £200,000 plus.  Just think of trying to raise that sort of mortgage.  Just not going to happen unless you are pushing £40 to 50k a year and who the fuck earns that in rural Cornwall.  Not many I would argue.  

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13 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

That was years ago 
Meanwhile in Spain

 

That's not my home town you twat!

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18 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Neither is Swansea :littleguy:

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23 hours ago, Saul said:

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/news-opinion/visitor-describes-ghost-town-visit-9256831?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

 

438169536_10160889930147326_8307200712626319292_n.thumb.jpg.81c330aeef22b4cba0ac2c0d7623b3be.jpg

 

Good and accurate poem 

 

Empty

The pretty streets beside
the sea

Belie a sickening sound

Of morbid wealth that took by stealth

The buildings in the town.

And most of them are empty,

Few people can be found.

They made their many millions

Moving money in the Smoke

Before they saw a stunning view;

Then bought it off some bloke.

And now that small investment

Has doubled at a stroke.

Many a fierce fishermen

Who lived in homes like these,

Would come home to their weary wives

From work upon the seas

And spend their Sunday mornings

In church upon their knees.

Their sadness is to see their homes

Closed up, silent and bare.

Only open when their rich

Plush owners can be there.

No local accents sounding

Is more than they could bear.

Cornish folk are now priced out

Of property by the sea.

And through the blinded
windows

We see prosperity,

Though now these streets
are empty

Except for you and me.

A single, silent seagull

Swoops upon its prey.

Then verdant country greets us

As we drive away

And look back on the
ghost town

As silence mars the day.

Francis Charters

We all know that the locals are hiding behind the curtains when any strangers arrive.

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19 hours ago, XTreme said:

According to every dictionary it is!

the city or town where one was born or grew up

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hometown

I don't care you gave up your claim to being welsh when you deserted your country just because things were getting a little to hard for you. :littleguy: 

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45 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

I don't care you gave up your claim to being welsh when you deserted your country just because things were getting a little to hard for you. :littleguy: 

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15 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

I don't care you gave up your claim to being welsh when you deserted your country just because things were getting a little to hard for you. :littleguy: 

Yeah, they identified him as a ginger ponce with a penchant for midgets? He had to leave quick.

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We visited my OH's daughter near Belfast and the countryside there is spectacular, but most of the housing are square grey boxes! They just make the whole place look uninviting and bleak! Not helped by the weather either! 😂😂

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