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unusual facts about South Coast of England



1924–25 Port Vale F.C. season

Whilst on the South Coast of England the players were rewarded for their hard work with a relaxing holiday, seeing sights such as the Isle of Wight, the Southampton docks, the HMS Victory, the Newbury races, and music hall star Gertie Gitana performing at the theatre.

Fred Tully

He spent the next four seasons in the reserves before moving to the South coast to join Second Division Southampton in June 1933, to replace Johnny Arnold who had been transferred to Fulham the previous February.


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20 Jazz Funk Greats

The album's cover photograph was taken at Beachy Head, a chalk headland on the south coast of England, close to the town of Eastbourne in the county of East Sussex, and one of the world's most notorious suicide spots.

Ambleton Delight

The production company is Parkes Productions Ltd based in the Brighton Marina on the south coast of England.

Basil Hall Chamberlain

Chamberlain was born in Southsea (a part of Portsmouth) on the south coast of England, the son of an Admiral William Charles Chamberlain and his wife Eliza Hall, the daughter of the travel writer Basil Hall.

Multi-purpose reef

The most recently constructed artificial surfing reef is the Boscombe Surf Reef located in Boscombe, Bournemouth on the south coast of England.

Parliamentary representation from Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England, was part of the historic county of Hampshire (originally Southamptonshire), and was linked with it for parliamentary purposes until 1832, when it became a county constituency in its own right as it had also been during the Protectorate (1654–1659).

Paul Neal

He later went on to co-own and manage The Hive chain on comic shops on the south coast of England.

Royal Navy surface fleet

At present it consists of two flotillas based at Portsmouth and Devonport, both on the south coast of England, and a flotilla based at the Clyde Naval Base at Faslane in Scotland.

The Balmoral

MV Balmoral, a passenger ship which cruises the south coast of England

The Dancing Mistress

At a girl's school in Brighton on the south coast of England, the French mistress, Virginie Touchet, when not teaching French, surreptitiously indulges in an irresistible and ruinous addiction to gambling.

Thomas Read Kemp

He conceived and developed the Regency-style Kemp Town estate in Brighton on the south coast of England.