Weston-super-Mare Live Walk [BAD SIGNAL] - Seafront, Grand Pier & Local History

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]And welcome everyone. Welcome everyone.

[00:00:03]We are live from Western Super.

[00:00:08]So this is a live stream walk. We've got about 10 minutes before to officially kick off. We're just waiting for everyone to connect. Let me know in the chat if you can hear me properly.

[00:00:20]As you might noticed from the umbrella, it is raining, which is a shame because it was bright and sunny two hours ago when I got here.

[00:00:31]Hi Nikki, nice to see you here. If anyone was completely new to me, if you don't know what you've clicked on, this is a live streamed walk in Western Supermar. We'll be starting in 10 minutes. So, if you're watching the replay, feel free to skip the next 10 minutes. We're just going to be standing here saying hello to everyone.

[00:00:51]All good, says Katherine. Thank you, Katherine.

[00:00:55]And most of you know the drill already.

[00:00:57]I'm going to have to tap the microphone three times just to check that it's working properly.

[00:01:05]You should have heard three taps. Let me know if you've heard them cuz sometimes you can have a bit of dust in the connections or or whatever.

[00:01:14]And welcome everyone that just joined.

[00:01:16]We've got about 10 minutes to go. Let me flip the camera around so you get a glimpse of the view instead of a very much zoomed in version of my face.

[00:01:31]The view was a little bit nicer 2 hours ago when it was bright and sunny, but hey ho, that's the beauty of the live streams. You never know what you're going to get.

[00:01:42]And talking about live streams, um I am not 100% confident about the signal today, especially towards the beginning of the tour. It's quite tricky to be checking the signal ahead. So, as usual, you know, if you have any uh if you're watching the replay and you have a lot of little cuts, that's probably a signal cut. And if you are with me live, well, if you tell me that it's buffering or anything, I'll stop saying anything interesting until I know that you can hear me. So, you shouldn't miss any of the information.

[00:02:14]Again, I don't know. We might have a brilliant signal, but um it's quite hard to tell. Usually, what I do to test the the signal is I walk around watching YouTube shorts and I can I can see if they load fast enough. Although, sometimes I think they're preloaded. So now I've started to walk and chat with Chad GPT at the same time and see how um how quickly they uh uh how quickly they answer.

[00:02:48]>> Uh Lori, no. I don't I don't think it comes from uh from French now.

[00:02:54]Didn't really look it up to be honest. I think I did years ago, but I don't remember where it comes from. Bum cuz m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m mar m sounds French but it doesn't mean anything in French would western super mar would makes would make a lot of sense in French but mar not really hi t and welcome everyone that just joined. We've got about 6 minutes to go and I kind of hope the rain might stop.

[00:03:30]It started very quickly. It was going to be a beautiful day. I did walk my route already um under the sun. So, we've got quite a bit of a a distance to cover.

[00:03:42]So, I've already walked it back and forth. So, I'll be doing a lot of walking today cuz after that I need to jump on the train and walk my route in uh in Bristol. So, I'll be walking at least six hours today. I'll be naked on my um on my bus back to London.

[00:04:01]That's fine. If I sleep on the bus, that's probably better. It's not a long ride in I'm taking the bus at 9:30, so I'll be in London um about midnight, I think.

[00:04:15]If you don't say hi, it's because you're lying down. Okay, fair enough, Lori.

[00:04:21]Enjoy your enjoy the lying down.

[00:04:28]No, Mar is Mar would be C. Um, but Mar is is not anything in in in well actually Mar in French in French is enough. If you say Jeanar, I I have enough. Um but only in that sense of enough otherwise that'll be like sufficient. Um so it's uh uh it wouldn't be it wouldn't be like me.

[00:05:04]I mean the c would be m e r Although in French you've got a lot of mayor. You've got the mayor that is the sea. You've got the mayor that is the mother. You've got the mayor that is the mayor. Uh the city, you know, the town mayor. So you've got a lot of mayors.

[00:05:27]You need to know which which you're talking about.

[00:05:31]Vanoma, you have a cold morning as well. Well, it was it was warm two hours ago here.

[00:05:46]Not last night. I was sleeping in a caravan in um Burnham on Sea. I was freezing all night.

[00:05:55]Western Super Mud. Yes, it does get very muddy. The tide here, it's quite impressive. Although it's coming back up, so it's uh not going to look too muddy today.

[00:06:13]So Catherine says Wiki says Western is the old English for western and um so west village. Yeah, I did read that before. Yeah, that village is a ton and the suffix supermar is Latin for up on sea. Oh, you see. So, the French may may come from the Latin mar. Oh, actually mar in French it's the uh it's the tide. Um, so it's also linked to the sea, but it's not pronounced mer. It's mar potential with with a double e, I think.

[00:06:55]Right, we've got about four minutes to go.

[00:07:00]Free now.

[00:07:05]And welcome everyone that just joined.

[00:07:09]You've got a lovely view from here. A view on the pier on all the beach area.

[00:07:15]And you can actually see the sea today cuz sometimes the sea is so far um that that you don't really see much of it.

[00:07:23]The tide here can be uh can be quite um quite uh extensive.

[00:07:33]If any was anyone who was completely new to me, let us know in the chat. It's always nice to see a few new faces.

[00:07:41]And even if you were watching the replay, uh let us know in the comments as well. It's always always nice to know who's watching and and if anyone is new.

[00:07:52]So, we've got two minutes to go. Two minutes. And I think, let's see, because I'm under a tree, but I think it might might be getting a bit better in terms of the rain. That would be great if I could get rid of the umbrella soon.

[00:08:10]Although, we're lucky it's not too windy cuz when I can hold the umbrella, that's okay. When it's windy and rainy, that's the worst.

[00:08:20]I think I might be okay, you know.

[00:08:25]>> Should I? Yeah, let's chance it. I'm going to get rid of the umbrella. It's easier to do it here because I've got a little bench. Bear with me. I'm just going to pop you down. Oh, it's a bit wet. I'll pop you down on a trunk.

[00:08:40]It's uh Let me show you the the little bench here is uh the bench is actually sat on a on a trunk.

[00:08:54]Wayne, you know the place very well.

[00:08:56]Nice. Did you often come here for a day out or a holiday? Right, bear with me.

[00:09:02]I'm just going to fold up the umbrella and I'll try to pop it in the side of my bag and then finger crossed that we won't need it again today.

[00:09:12]And then it should be perfect timing to get started cuz we're starting at 12:30 UK time. Bear with me. I'm just trying to pop it on the side pocket. I'm carrying a big bag today cuz I was away for the weekend. I was um doing a job in um Brain on Bernamon Sea. I was photographing kids well girls football tournament. Right. Perfect. Here we are all done. and let's see what time it is.

[00:09:47]It is officially time to start. Okay, let's go, guys. Let's go for a nice little walk in Western Supermar.

[00:09:55]Now, we are at the very beginning of the Woolberry um uh uh forest. Emma, we are in Western. We are on the hill at the uh that's a little um a lovely little forest with a lot of dog walkers and sometimes even horse riders. Hi time lord and welcome everyone. There was a murder in this forest in 1987.

[00:10:19]Um but before I tell you about the murder mystery, let me show you the view again.

[00:10:27]So that's uh that's qu you've been on a holiday here, Emma. So, do you have a lot of good memories down here? Now, before we go much further, see this building here? I'll show you the front of the house in a moment, but I don't want to be standing in front of the house for too long because they might be wondering why I'm filming their building. And also, I think I've just met the landlord. Well, I've been petting their dogs or whoever came out of the house. Um, but it is on the it is on the market. It is a five bedroomedroom house, freehold, three garages, a beautiful view over the uh the beach. Um and also it's a five bedroomedroom, but it is the the at the moment it's kind of divided. You've got a threebedroom downstairs like a mezanet and Oh So I've just shown you the price. Oh well, never mind.

[00:11:22]Oopsie. I was going to make you I was going to make you guess, but oopsie. I might as well show you again now. Never mind. Uh, this is starting well.

[00:11:34]Um, so yeah, I was going to make you guess the price, but too late. I've just clicked on the wrong image. So yeah, if you wanted to buy your freehold um uh a five bedroomedroom house here in uh in Western uh that would be that would be the one on the market. Oh T, you were not far.

[00:11:55]You were not far. Sorry about that, guys. Next time next time I should keep the property guessing for the Monopoly tours. Really?

[00:12:05]Now let's go. Let's go down cuz we've got quite a bit of a walk today anyway.

[00:12:12]Sometimes it takes a lot of concentrations doing those tours, you know, cuz I'm stepping on the on wet wet stairs and and I have to remember what I'm talking about and which pictures to click on or not click on. Well done me.

[00:12:27]Anyway, let's go down and I'll show you the front of the building. Anyway, so it's a lot of money, but honestly, compared to London, it's it's really it's really not that much.

[00:12:39]I also saw on the street, I'll show you which one you have. Well, actually, you know what? I can make you guess the next one. I didn't take the pictures because I wasn't going to make you guess, but you can probably guess the next one.

[00:12:51]Right.

[00:12:54]So, that's actually the back door of the the building, but I'll show you the front down here. I've I've actually been pleasantly surprised breakfast actually uh like 10 years ago but recently online I had seen a lot of videos um saying western was very rundown and they called it western super nightmare and and um those videos are often bazed you know because about any town or city you can do any of those videos you know if you only film the the dirty areas or the rundown area. You can you can give a bad image of a town, you know, any town. That's why those live streams are actually good because I can't hide anything. I can't hide anything. So, you'd you know, you see the real the real city really besides you were spot on, Emma. You were so close. Yeah.

[00:13:49]Now, this is the front of the building.

[00:13:51]You see those three um garages and uh so you know for this price in London you'd have a well I suppose you'd have a a two-bedroom apartment you know maybe maybe three if you go a bit further out but it's not going to be a beautiful freehold with three garages on a C view Um the uh the murder um there was a lady that went to walk her dog. She was she was a retired lady called Helen on on the seaside in general for retirement you know and uh that was the case with uh with Helen. She uh sorry I've lost you for a sec.

[00:14:47]That's the spot all the way down here until the until the sea. There might be some little cuts in the signal.

[00:14:56]Oh, it's in the picture. Okay.

[00:15:00]Now, if you do want to try to guess, I'll tell you about Helen in a moment when I know for sure the signal is better. If you different apartments to sell, how much do you think you'd spend for a two-bedroom in that building there?

[00:15:13]I don't have the pictures, but I remember the answer. So, a two uh a twobedroom down here in this beautiful I don't know why they're all selling their apartments at the same time.

[00:15:28]There's one there that says sold and there's four more to sell.

[00:15:37]Yeah. You know what? If it keeps buffering, I'm going to try not to say anything interesting. I think I'll tell you the murder story as we get down to the sea the seaside. Um I had a feeling it was going to be a bit dodgy and here the the signal t it's far less.

[00:15:57]Any more guesses? Let me know. So two bedroom that beautiful building.

[00:16:03]I see it's buffering again. But um it it doesn't surprise me cuz I was uh down here earlier trying to uh chat to chat GBT see how quickly that would uh cuz we don't really have any good interest until I can see that you are back with me affordable.

[00:16:28]Let me know in the chat whenever I'm back. I'm going to try not to say anything interesting until you guys tell me that the signal is better.

[00:16:38]Lori, 210 210. I don't know if you've heard it. I mean 210k.

[00:16:44]So 210,000.

[00:16:47]Now are we back?

[00:16:50]That'll be great. This way I can show you the view of the pier.

[00:17:00]Larry, the answer was 210,000, but I don't know whether you can hear me now. I hope you can see because we've got a lovely view down here on the rundown Bernburg Pier. That's why I wanted to try to come down here anyway.

[00:17:16]Yes, we're back. Perfect. Uh, thank you, Nikki, for letting me know. A ghost pier. It's very rundown.

[00:17:24]It's um it's actually close to the public at the moment because it is dangerous. Um it was a very active pier for a long time though because on the other side there you've got Cardiff, you can see Wales and you'd have to remember that for many decades um in Wales people were not allowed to drink alcohol on a Sunday. So what did they do? They jumped on a ferry to come down Bernburg Pier here and get pissed in Western and then back home. Um I think for yeah for about 80 eight years they couldn't drink on a Sunday in in Wales. Um it was completely closed down in the uh uh in the 1990s. I think even the live boat company that were up there they had to move. Um finally I think the the reason why it was run down is because it was private so the the city council couldn't couldn't do much. Now I think they've bought it finally. So you might see it being uh structure. Anyway, I think it's great two star listed, so they have to keep it, but that'll be interesting to see if they do anything with it um eventually.

[00:18:37]Now, let's go down to the sea level.

[00:18:51]I he says it's not true. They always drunk on a Sunday. Um May visor.

[00:18:58]Yeah, but I'm not going to say anything of Let me know. Let me know in the chat when the signal is back. I'll try not to uh I'm gone again. Yeah, thank you, Nikki.

[00:19:18]Hopefully, it'll be better down here.

[00:19:23]I had a feeling it was going to be a bit crap, but it's really hard to tell how bad it is until uh until you we've tried. Really? Oh, I'm back. Perfect.

[00:19:34]Thank you, Nikki. All right. So, hopefully, finger crossed, that once we get down to the to the beach, it's going to be much better.

[00:19:45]And uh the the sister wanted to go and do some the shopping center. Then I then I'll pop into the baker.

[00:19:59]Emma says she's got no sound.

[00:20:03]Uh, it's probably just the buffering again.

[00:20:09]We have to rely on the gods of the internet. And when not when they're not with us, they're not with us.

[00:20:17]I'll just keep going. I won't give up.

[00:20:19]Um, no sound or picture. Oh, that's crap.

[00:20:32]And right now the app is telling me it's all right.

[00:20:38]Hi Natalie.

[00:20:44]The sun keeps dropping but the picture is fine. Okay. Right. I'll just try to um wait a minute to tell you the story because I know when uh when uh when it's in the middle of a story, it's very annoying when you miss half of the information.

[00:21:02]back um behind me, you know, back in Georgian times, the ladies on the J, they couldn't bathe at the same spot.

[00:21:09]So, behind me, there was the spot for the ladies bathing.

[00:21:13]And up there on on the Nightstone Island, so this little uh island there, that's where they had a Georgian uh bathing center. Uh they used seawater and it was a huge center. they had those reading rooms and everything in the uh in the bathing center. Nowadays they um it's mainly apartments and holiday rentals and stuff like that.

[00:21:44]Right. Hopefully it's a bit better now.

[00:21:46]This is known as the Marin Lake. You can see it's a little enclave of seawater because the tide in western supermar are so so uh so large when the tide is is out the the sea can be so far away that it makes it very difficult to go for a for a bath. Um so what they had built here the marin lake was a little retention of the sea water so people could go for a swim. Um, and it would only refresh the water when you had a big tide that would come and uh and refresh it. Um, as you can see, there's no water right now or hardly any cuz they closed it because of um well, because of E.coli, bacteria uh infections.

[00:22:32]It's uh it's a bit sad but you know at the end of the day all of the sea here between between here and Wales that's basically the uh the estrary you know the the ser the river servants's uh uh mouth on on estrary. So we know now that uh we've got a bit of a scandal in the UK with private water companies that keep dumping rose sewages in the in the rivers. Um, so yeah, that probably explains some of the the ecoli.

[00:23:08]Anyway, if the signal is better, now I can finally try to tell you again about Helen. So again, we're talking about the murder that happened up there in the woods, 1987.

[00:23:19]Helen, a 66 years of age retired lady.

[00:23:24]She um she told her sister she was going to uh go and walk the dogs. She was going to pop into the bakers before to buy some donuts and and bread and then she'd be back. She took her car and her dogs. She uh she went into the woods where we started the tour uh the tour earlier and uh we are late morning. I mean the the police officers believe that there were about 70 people in the woods at that point. So, it's not really, you know, it's broad daylight.

[00:23:55]And what happened is there's a friend of Helen that went um to to walk her own dogs herself in the woods as well. And she was a little bit surprised to see the the two dogs, Helen's dogs alone.

[00:24:08]So, she was calling them and she was like, "Oh, where is mommy? Where is Helen?" And um she followed them around and eventually she found the body of her friend. Helen had been brutally brutally attacked.

[00:24:23]Hi. Look at what they've done here.

[00:24:25]That's interesting. That's art, but it's clearly used to be a tree here. They've kept part of the trunko to do some kind of sculpture.

[00:24:36]Anyway, Helen is uh is uh dead. uh she'd been stabbed and and and um and uh uh bitten to to to death. Um there were a few witnesses that had seen a that seed a young man wearing an anorak or some even described him as wearing um a ski jacket. Um but that was it. They couldn't eliminate him from the investigation cuz this guy never came forward. Um there was also a witness that saw her she she was talking to someone in a van but I think that was the day before and that was it really.

[00:25:19]They found nothing else for many um many many years and uh uh apart from that boy with the uh with the anorak and uh much later like years later maybe 30 years later I think there's a local uh crime historian that uh he wrote a book he claimed that there was a serial killer in this area or not even this area in in the the west of the country in general cuz the two dog walkers lady were murdered in Deon and stuff but there's absolutely no evidence of a serial killer you know if I mean if you want to target someone dog walkers are often uh easy victims because they they sometimes walk in isolated areas and stuff there's a nice I don't know how well you can see on camera there's a nice piece of street art there on the side of the buildings I think they whales.

[00:26:20]Oh, actually, you know what? That might not be a that might be a representation of the the seven serpent.

[00:26:29]Maybe not. Maybe I'm making that up. And there's um there's a a little legend of a serpent here in the uh in the sevens estrary, a bit like the Loch Ness monster. Um, so that might be And if I turn around, there's a there's a puffin as well. I don't know how well you'll see on on camera, but there's a nice little puffin just uh just up there.

[00:26:58]Talking about puffins, did any of you get the new uh King Charles II 20p with the puffin? I think it's going to be a very rare one. Well, at least for the 2023 uh minting uh edition, but keep looking at your change because if you get a puffin, you could be in uh for a bit of money. I think they're quite valuable.

[00:27:23]Good morning, Barbara, and welcome everyone that just joined. So, yeah, let me know in the chat if you've got a puffin.

[00:27:31]And to get back to the servant serpent, I think I've got a postcard. Let me show you. There we go. I mean, Most people think it's always been a hoax anyway, but that's a picture of the or an alleged picture of the ser the servant serpent in uh in Western. So that could be what they've tried to uh to uh paint on the wall there. I'm not sure.

[00:27:55]Right. Let me remove this photo and let's go down towards the main uh the main pier.

[00:28:04]So, we've seen the Ghost Pier earlier behind us, but I'll show you the main one. The Grand Pier. You can already see a bit of it now. The Grand Pier, it's been uh well, the Pav the pier itself, I think it's 1903. Um, so it's not not Victorian like many of the peers, but the pavilion is very modern. It it it burned down a couple of times. It's been rebuilt a couple of time, and I think this latest uh edition is uh 2010.

[00:28:33]It's great to be with you too, Barbara.

[00:28:36]And you've joined at the perfect timing because we had a bit of a signal issue before, but I think we're good now. So hopefully the signal would stay with us.

[00:28:45]You're going to name it Bob the serpent.

[00:28:47]That's a cool name for a serpent.

[00:28:51]Now, if you were a criminal, >> do you think burying your weapons in the beach or or in any beaches actually, but especially a busy one like Western Super, do you think that'd be the best idea?

[00:29:09]Cuz uh well, some people did it. We had um a terrible crime crime actually in um in uh in a little place called Wade Bridge. It's in Cornwall. Um it was a couple that was I think they were in their 50s. They owned a little petrol station. So they they were selling their petrol and they were lovely. Everyone, you know, everyone loved them. They were actually um uh uh quite a cheerful couple and they were brutally brutally attacked. Uh um they were well it was probably a robbery that went wrong. You know they they stole the the the cash in the uh in the petrol station. Um but they were battered to death and shot. The uh the criminals were not found for many many years until one day they found their guns buried here in the sand. I don't know why anyone would do that. I mean, you know, beaches, you've got a lot of kids making sand castles, and you've got people coming with metal detectors to find lost jewelry or or coins, or why would you come and bury your guns on the beach? I mean, it makes no sense to me.

[00:30:26]You'd be better off burying them anywhere else. Well, having said that, this morning when I walked my route the first time, I saw a guy with a metal detector in the forest as well. So nowhere nowhere is safe. But anyway, that's how the two guys were caught.

[00:30:41]They were local. They both lived in um in uh in Western. And uh well, I said they were caught. They were caught. They were jailed for the crime at first, but then they were um they so they were found guilty of the the murder of Carol and Graham Fischer. they were jailed and then years later the the evidence were uh kind of uh destroyed. I mean they they they they claimed although there was forensics I think they had fingerprints and stuff on the guns but um their lawyers managed to to say it wasn't enough and they were acquitted they were released in uh in uh 2006 as I think so they would have spent about 3 years in uh in prison maybe they were innocent who knows but yeah not the sharpest criminal I don't know why anyone would bury are guns here.

[00:31:38]Talking about crimes, there were a couple of horrible crimes here recently.

[00:31:43]Last year, there was a little girl uh 9 years old, Arya, that was uh that was killed by a 15 years old. We don't know much. I mean his ident his identity is not disclosed because you know when it's a when it's a teenager or a minor in general you know they they get uh they get to to to to get their names away from the press but yeah quite a tragic case. Oh, there was another one that was absolutely horrendous here many years ago, like um in the in the late '9s. Um there was uh there was a case of uh um a guy that uh well basically dropped petrol on on his wife or girlfriend girlfriend I think she was and uh and and he set her on fire. So she was I mean extremely extremely burned. Um the uh uh I'm not going to show you any photos of of her face because I don't want to use her as a as an object of of horror, but she did survive, but she was in a terrible terrible condition. Um she uh uh her face was completely burned. Her lungs had been burned. She had to she had to um breathe with uh you know like a little hole in your uh in in your throat. Bear with me. I'm just going to pop you down for a sec. I'm going to get the umbrella again cuz it's raining quite bad now. Bear with me. Don't go anywhere cuz my gimbal is all wet.

[00:33:19]Sorry to keep you waiting. I'm just going to open the umbrella and then we'll be good to go.

[00:33:26]Oopsie.

[00:33:28]If it does come in the frame, I do apologize, but I've got to uh Oh, it's a bit too windy for an umbrella now. I was just telling you earlier it was no wind.

[00:33:36]Well, it's windy now. Anyway, yeah, she survived. Um, and at first she tried to protect him. Um, it was a a guy she'd met on the street. I mean, he was homeless and she took him she took him on on at hers and then they fell in love and they had um he was obviously extremely jealous and possessive and and all that.

[00:33:57]But after being burned, she tried to protect him saying it was an accident and stuff. It's only when she heard he had another victim uh u sexual assault with GHB and stuff that she then tell told the police. So he was jailed for um about 15 years and she survived. She was told she would have maximum 10 years to live and she actually survived um 19 years when um eventually she uh well sorry for the gruesome details but she um she had some kind of a belly that was a bit uh uh a bit bloated and uh because of the skin you know she had hardly enough skin to to expand you know because of all the the the graft of you know when you get badly burnt You do you do skin graft and stuff. Um so the the the belly couldn't expand and the the guts actually um exploded into her uh uh sorry the umbrella is flying away in into her lungs and and she died. Anyway, she died 19 years later, but it was clearly the consequences of the brutal attack. So suddenly the boyfriend was tried for murder and he had just been released. So he went back to uh he went back to to to jail. So that's quite interesting to be uh to go down for murder 19 years later.

[00:35:24]But you know, he deserved it.

[00:35:29]This building here, that's actually a Weatherspoon's hotel. Um some of you might know Weather Spoons.

[00:35:37]It's this uh this um uh pub chain that is much cheaper than any other uh any other pubs really.

[00:35:48]They've recently started doing hotels as well. And it's it's interesting because well, some of you might know Tim Martin, the big boss. He's a uh well, he's an interesting guy. Let's say he keeps middling with politics. He had a major campaign uh supporting Brexit.

[00:36:07]Sorry, I do apologize if the the the frame um I mean if the umbrella is in the frame, but the weather has turned terrible now. I need to protect the equipment. Um and uh yeah, so his new hotels, they are interesting because he's decided not to use booking or or any uh any booking platform, you know, those international platforms that take 25%. He's only promoting his hotels through his pubs and uh well, I suppose Google Maps as well, but that's it. He's uh not using any of those third party platforms to uh to promote the the Weather Spoons hotels.

[00:36:50]You love the seaside tones with even darker history in that. Great to hear.

[00:36:55]So, here are the winter gardens.

[00:36:59]It's interesting to see how pretty much all the British uh seaside towns were developed, you know, with with those spears and everything because if you go down to, I don't know, Italy, Spain, um France or any other European beach um resort, you'll never see a pier. Why do the Brits have those peers? I suppose you might have a few in the US or potentially even Canada, but uh in Europe it's quite uh unique, but I guess it's because of the weather cuz you know if you uh if you go on a on a beachy weekend uh in Italy in May, you'd almost certainly be able to use the beach and go for a swim. Here you have to have a plan B cuz you might have a day like today with wind and cold and rain. So I guess they needed uh entertainment like those winter gardens or those spears and cuz the peers would have been used for the fairies or the boats as well to arrive especially in destinations like here with a huge um tide.

[00:38:07]Western Superar is the I think it's the second largest tide in the across the world. number one. Well, there there are two number one, I think, in Nova Scotia in uh in uh in Canada. But yeah, when the when the sea is far, it can be very far.

[00:38:24]Oh, you have a pier in the Netherlands as well. Oh, interesting.

[00:38:29]Well, I suppose the Netherlands is probably not the weather is not very different from from here, is it? is the uh it's about the same um uh longit long longitude and latitude latitude as uh as London, isn't it?

[00:38:49]Hi Martin from Canada. Welcome everyone that just joined. Welcome to Windy, Rainy Western Supermar.

[00:38:59]Now, after all those murder stories, on a side note, we also had an interesting reverend here. In the 1920s, Reverend Harold something. He uh he liked to crossdress and dress up as a lady apparently. For many months, there were reports of a of a strange lady, a very tall lady walking around at at night. And um they found out eventually someone recognized him. It was the reverend and um he uh he claimed that he was actually writing a trying to write a book of the about the new morals of the day and uh that he was studying how uh people treated ladies walking alone at night.

[00:39:49]But I think he was just a cross-dressing reverend. Why not?

[00:39:57]same weather is always it's it's always coming from the UK. Yeah, it's probably the same clouds that uh fly from London down to the Netherlands.

[00:40:07]Anyway, here is the entrance to the Grand Pier.

[00:40:11]I'm not going to go down the pier because it's always uh uh well, it's going to be even more windy and also they always play music and you know with YouTube it's always a you know you don't want any music in the in the background because of copyright issues. So no pier for us but that's fine. I'll take you down to a church because some of you might remember we talked uh a couple of weeks ago when we were in FA in in in London, we talked about Jill Dondo, the uh BBC journalist that was murdered in uh Gowan Street in uh in Fulham in 1999.

[00:40:53]Well, Jill was from here. Now, for for those of you that might not uh remember, uh I'll tell you quickly what happened.

[00:41:03]The um the well, Jill was uh she was an extremely popular lady. She was she was going to be the face of the BBC for the New Year's celebration, you know, the 2000 uh millennium. Um she was running well she was doing a few shows but uh mainly the one called Crime Watch that would investigate. Um I'm just going to try to swap hands because my left hand is left arm is getting tired. Bear bear with me cuz it's so windy. It's a bit tricky to hold the umbrella. Oh no, I've I've made a mess. Well, anyway, the cable is on the wrong side.

[00:41:44]Right.

[00:41:46]According to the app, it is better.

[00:41:50]You heard something. Oh, that's that's a good start. Let me know if we are back.

[00:41:55]That'll be brilliant if we are back cuz I've got something to show you right here. Back. Cuz I've got something to show you right here.

[00:42:02]A beusement.

[00:42:05]A beusement park.

[00:42:09]They're still here. They're still here.

[00:42:13]I'll try to I'll try to show you the church where Jill Dando was. Uh well, she's not buried to show you the church where Jill Dando was. Uh well, she's not buried there, but where the funeral but yeah. Anyway, Jill Dando was from here in Western Supermar. So, after being murdered in London because she was a western girl. Good signal last week in Lincoln.

[00:42:37]You know, with those live streams, you never know what you're gonna get in terms of signal, in terms of weather.

[00:42:44]Sometimes, sometimes the weather is with you, the internet is with you. Sometimes they're not. Like today, are we back?

[00:43:04]It's funny because sometimes the app tells me transmission issue, transmission issue, and sometimes it doesn't. So, I'm just assuming we we're back, but clearly not your messages in the chat. But just just in case just in case you can hear me, I'm going to cross over the street to show you the church. So, and then I'm going to run to my train for Bristol.

[00:43:31]There we go. So, this is the this is the church here.