{"id":17722,"date":"2017-05-03T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=17722"},"modified":"2017-05-02T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T21:41:10","slug":"bognor-photos-dark-clouds-windy-scenes-and-a-knackered-old-pier-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/bognor-photos-dark-clouds-windy-scenes-and-a-knackered-old-pier-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-01.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bognor is a place that I&#8217;ve found myself visiting rather more than I&#8217;d like of late, by virtue of the fact that my football team (Dulwich Hamlet) seem to play there all the time &#8211; usually with disastrous results.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-02.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Mayday, I returned to this run-down south coast seaside resort, only to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/2017\/05\/dulwich-hamlet-heartbreak-after-defeat-in-play-off-final-at-bognor-regis-mon-1st-may-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watch Dulwich lose a crucial play off final<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It rained for most of the match, but thankfully the threatening dark clouds in the late afternoon sky failed to open when I reached the beach (unlike my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-grim-afternoon-on-the-pier-and-along-the-seafront-of-rain-lashed-bognor-regis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rain-lashed trip in 2015<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-03.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The train trip to the coast sometimes involves a change at the wonderfully preserved Barnham station, a\u00a0junction stop for the short branch to Bognor Regis.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a well-used interchange for passengers between slow and fast services, with services to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport, Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, Littlehampton (via Ford) and the occasional long-distance services to the West Country.<\/p>\n<p>Opening in 1864, it&#8217;s used by over a million passengers a year, and has its own charming station cafe (below).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-04.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-05.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bognor&#8217;s Marine Park Gardens after the rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-06.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-07.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beach huts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-08.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Skies clearing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-09.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-10.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-11.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having a chat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-12.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-13.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taking a very bracing walk along the seafront.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-14.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-15.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Solid Italianate-style architecture faces the sea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-16.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-17.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Windy scenes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-18.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-19.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Threatening skies in the distance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-20.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-21.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bognor&#8217;s cut-down pier is still in a pretty poor state, although\u00a0the\u00a0&#8216;<a class=\"text1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Friends-of-Bognor-Regis-Pier\/361077027308209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friends of Bognor Regis Pier<\/a>&#8216; continue to lobby for its future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/bognor-regis-pier-england.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more about the pier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-24.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Velvet rope by the pier entrance. There&#8217;s posh!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-22.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-23.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View from the pier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-25.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-26.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A windswept pier view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-27.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This memorable warning sign happily remains\u00a0intact.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-33.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-28.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-29.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-31.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-32.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Breakwaters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-34.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-35.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fishing boats on the beach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-30.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boat flags.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-36.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-37.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All was very, very quiet along London Road, the main shopping street.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-38.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely convinced that their Bank Holiday sale was truly &#8220;spectacular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-39.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bognor&#8217;s wonderful cinema.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-40.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-41.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-42.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bognor&#8217;s striking Victorian terminus is undergoing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bognor.co.uk\/news\/date-set-for-2m-bognor-station-refurbishment-1-7867304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a32m restoration<\/a>, which will see many original features refurbished.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-43.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-45.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What looks like a vintage Butlins poster can be seen on the station concourse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bognor-seaside-44.jpg\" alt=\"Bognor photos: dark clouds, windy scenes and a knackered old pier , May 2017\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parts of the station look unchanged since Victorian times.<\/p>\n<h2>Chat about Bognor<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/a-trip-to-bognor-regis.317163\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Join the discussion here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>More Bognor photos:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/bognor-regis-east-sussex-street-shots-terrys-donuts-and-the-run-down-pier\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bognor Regis, East Sussex \u2013 street shots, Terry\u2019s donuts and the run-down pier<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-grim-afternoon-on-the-pier-and-along-the-seafront-of-rain-lashed-bognor-regis\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A grim afternoon on the pier and along the seafront of rain-lashed Bognor Regis<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sussex\/bognor-regis-pier-england.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bognor Regis Pier \u2013\u00a0Run-down Grade II listed pier on the south coast<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/an-autumnal-day-trip-to-bognor-regis-on-the-south-coast-photo-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An autumnal day trip to Bognor Regis on the south coast \u2013 photo report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bognor is a place that I&#8217;ve found myself visiting rather more than I&#8217;d like of late, by virtue of the fact that my football team (Dulwich Hamlet) seem to play &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,193],"tags":[463,717,716,1626,1195,53,612,31,32,207,217],"class_list":["post-17722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","tag-beach","tag-bognor","tag-bognor-regis","tag-clouds","tag-photos","tag-pier","tag-railway-station","tag-rain","tag-seaside","tag-station","tag-sussex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bognor-seaside-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4BQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17726,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722\/revisions\/17726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}