Lowestoft, Suffolk
New Year, 2000: Thousands flocked here to "be the first to watch the sun rise in England". The most easterly point in the UK actually looks like this:

www.ness-point.co.uk/images/articles/gulliver-ness-point-lowestoft.jpg

Proving that, in fact, the most easterly thing in England is a Unilever/Bird's Eye factory. Woo.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:07, 5 replies)

Ah, not forgetting the wonderous site
That is Sizewell B looming over the horizon, further along the coast.

Tremendous.

In their defence, they do have the Adnams brewery which must count for something
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:19, closed)

Not to mention the amazing "clean beach"
Which has actually won awards, because unlike the locals the people who inspect the area don't know that if you swim out to the sandbank (about 200m out to sea) and look back at the coast/harbour, you can watch the barely treated sewage being pumped into the sea. X(

And having a brewery in a shithole town doesn't count for much. You end up with our 80% highschool dropouts feeling that they're "cool" because they can work in a "place that makes booze, innit."

EDIT: Sizewell send out people to talk to us from when we're in primary school onwards, telling us how wonderful nuclear power is and how safe the whole thing is.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 14:27, closed)

It is safe
Chernobyl blew up because of people screwing with it, was a steam explosion rather than a nuclear explosion and was only that serious because, thanks to the poverty brought on by communism, they couldn't afford / didn't want the expense of a proper containment dome.

People live next to reactors on ships, subs, in Hartlepool- all over and don't have any greater health problems than those who live in comparable non-nuclear-proximate surroundings. I'm assured that Hartlepool's inhabitants were barely human even before the nuclear plant got there.

Also, think about this- if we'd gone Nuclear and not had the damned greenies moaning about it then we'd have saved about 50 years worth of carbon emissions and made Uranium-producing countries (Canada, Australia, bits of Africa, etc) richer rather than oil-producing ones (who frequently don't like us).
Apologies for length, it's a favourite topic of mine...
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 2:49, closed)

Ah, no brewery, sadly
Adnams is in Southwold, which in social terms is about 4,000 miles away from Lowestoft.
(woodkat loves comic sans, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 18:59, closed)

Thousands is a bit much
I was one of the thirty odd people who was at Lowestoft ness, on 1/1/00 there early enough to see the sunrise.

EDIT: there is also a municipal tip further along from the birds eye place
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 20:13, closed)