It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file. Just to let Laurie Selby know that yes Volks railway still runs along the beach from the Palace pier to the Marina, I guess this must be the train to which you refer?

Those interested indulged in midnight bathing, and this stretch of shingle and sand became known as the Lido beach. Since the 1930s the beach has become much higher due to the drift of shingle, but the Volks railway originally ran along the beach on a track raised by a viaduct. The Secret of Banjo Groyne tells the harrowing story of how they were convicted by a judicial system more concerned with vengeance than justice. Grade II listed substantial concrete groyne and promenade built in 1877 as part of the coastal (sea) defence scheme: list.Now the beaches are all the same level and the men and boys who looked over the Banjo Groyne to admire the bathing belles below are no more to be seen. I didn’t realise then that he/she was playing with me; it wasn’t till I got totally messed around by a Grouper, at 85ft in the Med, that the “penny dropped”!

All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.I’m pleased to see my 6 year old jumping off Banjo’s last summer into just the same deep clear water Ian and Mick describe.

If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. We packed up just as high tide arrived – I’d snapped my shock leader off striking, and then snapped my rig off on the next cast, so it wasn’t worth setting up again.The beach below Banjo Groyne was very popular in summer as it was sheltered from the south-westerly winds. I just finished recounting tales to my children about how we used to dive through car inner-tubes from the ‘Banjo Groyne’in the 70’s whilst the tide fell to breathtaking shallow depths! share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. I was almost as chuffed when Duncs reeled in, having caught a very sizeable Tub Gurnard, bigger than the one I’d caught a few weeks back, so a nice fish, but more importantly, a fish that ended a 3 session fishless run for him.