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As I wombled round this fair town on Sunday looking for additional photographs to replace some of the ones in the competition (had grumbles that it was too hard) I came across "Oyster Mews", now; I had been told that these properties were completed and that one or more were inhabited, but when I saw just how close to the toilets these had been built I could not believe my eyes.
I know building land is in great demand in town, but this is bloody ridiculous. Three feet separate these mews properties from the only bogs in the centre of town I would have thought that "Flushing View" or "Privy Mews" would have been a better name than "Oyster Mews" but my advice was not asked for when a name was pulled out of the hat.
I just hope the locals when evicted from the town's hostelries in the small hours of the night do not relieve themselves outside these unfortunate properties.
Fancy having to give directions to friends on the location of your new house!
The residents of Privy Mews are up in arms over the request by Armin at the Ship Centurion to extend his license to cover the hours 8am until 1.00am on Fridays and Saturdays and from 8.00am until 11.30pm for the rest of the week! The residents, at present; four in number who complained, were concerned about the noise coming from the ship. One family said they could hear loud music and punters singing that went on into the early hours on New Years Day!! No Shit! I think we all had a right to celebrate on that particular day!
They don't seem to mind living right next to a bog, but object to people frequenting a well run and lively pub from making a noise. I could drown the noise from the ship any night after a vindaloo. Maybe I should try the acoustics in the privy's in Privy Mews?
Once again in the national press Whitstable gets a mention as the place to be.
The article below comes from the Telegraph and puts Whitstable in the limelight along with Chesil Beach and Rock in Cornwall.
Kent provides another example of Britain's renewed love affair with coastal resorts, with a growing number of Londoners and city-dwellers buying holiday homes in towns such as Whitstable, where new art galleries, boutiques and oyster bars have made the town among the most fashionable in the country.
With publicity like this, no wonder people selling their Whitstable property can be choosy about the potential purchasers.
In the Whitstable Gazette this week (05/04/07) one house for sale restricts the purchaser even further than usual.
Just look at the bottom line in the description!
