Okay, I'll tell you all the long story of how I ended up dancing naked down Margate seafront on a Bank Holiday Monday
It all started in a nightclub over in Ramsgate called Peggy Sue's...


*Deleted due to legal reasons*

If this qotw is still up in an hour or so I'll tell the full unexpurgated version and to hell with the legalities.

*EDIT* Hmm...over an hour....the b3ta gods are playing chicken....
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:10, 11 replies)

I remember Peggy Sue's
I grew up in Margate (unfortunately)
(Lionel Tiger, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:22, closed)

Dear old Margate....
A friend of mine grew up in Cliftonville - he visited Beirut about ten years ago, said it was no different from home.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:28, closed)

.
the park in Cliftonville was great though. not been back there in about 30 years. Im all nostalgic now!
(Lionel Tiger, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:41, closed)

The best thing about Margate was the Penny Arcade
out on the little pier down by the Lifeboat memorial statue - it went about 15/20 years ago.

And Dreamland.
The other best thing about Margate.
Scenic Railway was burned down last year.
The River Caves were closed up years ago.

Sad but true.

*sigh* All part of my childhood...gone.

Bloody hell, I feel all tearful and nostalgic now! For Margate!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:57, closed)

The Scenic Railway has gone?
damn, Im genuienly saddened by that.

The Shell Grotto was a favourite of mine when I was a kid. Hope thats still there.
(Lionel Tiger, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:03, closed)

Some of the Railway still stands but it took a beating.
The Shell Grotto is still going - the family who used to own it (coincidentally their daughter went to school with me) sold it to a lady who is now a driving force in the Margate art scene and the whole regeneration of the old town.

The Scenic Railway fire - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7335519.stm
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:13, closed)

very sad to see
but thanks for the trip down memory lane!
(Lionel Tiger, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 20:27, closed)

No chickenlady.
Don't spoil the image I have of you.
( girlinthehole, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:24, closed)

Spoil it in the name of comedy, I demand it!

(Guilt wants to get in your moist confines, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:26, closed)

I suspect the image you have is rather too close to the truth.
Maybe...
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:29, closed)

I wonder
If someone will say "pictures or it didn't happen".
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 16 Apr 2009, 19:35, closed)