Talk:Winterton-on-Sea

Daniel Defoe
Going back to the original text of A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, his comments relate to area to the north of Winterton up to Cromer. For example: "As I went by land from Yarmouth northward, along the shoar towards Cromer aforesaid, and was not then fully master of the reason of these things, I was surprised to see, in all the way from Winterton, that the farmers, and country people had scarce a barn, or a shed, or a stable; nay, not the pales of their yards, and gardens, not a hogstye, not a necessary-house, but what was built of old planks, beams, wales and timbers, &c. the. wrecks of ships, and ruins of mariners and merchants' fortunes; and in some places were whole yards fill'd, and piled up very high with the same stuff laid up, as I suppos'd to sell for the like building purposes, as there should be occasion."

Robinson Crusoe is also shipwrecked to the north of Winterton, not at Winterton. "...we made slow way towards the shore; nor were we able to reach the shore till, being past the lighthouse at Winterton, the shore falls off to the westward, towards Cromer, and so the land broke off a little the violence of the wind. Here we got in, and, though not without much difficulty, got all safe on shore, and walked afterwards on foot to Yarmouth...". 92.29.113.244 (talk) 12:57, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Homes By The Sea
The converted lighthouse and the village were featured in episode 3/7 of the Channel 4 series Homes By The Sea, broadcast at 7pm on Saturday the 18th. July 2015. 92.29.112.106 (talk) 14:02, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Quality art video of the coast and dunes near Winterton
https://vimeo.com/31031573 If the link no longer works, search on Vimeo dot com for Winterton On Sea. Wikipedia does not permit links in articles to videos. The beach is not as stony as the video might suggest. 92.29.126.7 (talk) 12:37, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Hermanus Holidays
I have tried to indicate that this is not a sprawling eyesore but is quite compact and secluded and hidden away, so that you could explore all of the village and never notice it. 92.29.126.7 (talk) 13:59, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Hermanus Holidays has been wrongly removed from the article, and should be put back. Its unusual holiday huts are a distinctive part of the landscape, if you can find them, and deserve an explanation. If everything commercial was deleted from Wikipedia then a large portion of it would disappear. 92.3.56.183 (talk) 10:27, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Reverting bad edits
Reverted some very clumsy borderline vandalism edits: 1) reverted the History section from having the title "19th. century" put in bold put half way down it. 2) Reverted from "In 1864 the novelist Wilkie Collins visited the village while preparing his novel Armadale...." 3) Reverted the deletion of the short paragraph and the picture about Hermanus Holidays and their distinctive huts. 4) Reverted "In 1956, at 78 years old...". 5) Reverted "citation needed" from the Resolute desk when there are at least thirteen citations in that article. Please do not put them back again. 92.24.189.44 (talk) 18:56, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

1 Simply to break up a long paragraph.

2 To make it clearer what "Armadale" is.

3 Advertising

4 Numbers are more concise than text.Ehrenkater (talk) 13:04, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

You are behaving like a troll or schoolboy bully who goes through an essay and introduces spelling mistakes and rearranges sentences so that they are ungrammatical. Perhaps the appeal is like that of graffiti - you can see your mark on things. 92.24.186.92 (talk) 14:11, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

The 'improvements' by Ehrenkater are like the improvements to the Ecce Homo (Martínez and Giménez, Borja). I would change them back for the second time, but I think Ehrenkater would simply change them again and again. 92.28.246.148 (talk) 10:33, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Many of the edits seemed to be trying to compress the text into the smallest number of words and thus losing a lot of detail and nuance. The article is not a telegram. Why not just have a one-line article saying "Winterton: sandy, old"? 92.3.56.183 (talk) 10:06, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Are the changes made by Ehrenkater an improvement or should they be removed?
They add nothing, and only make the article worse. Who agrees or disagrees? 92.24.186.92 (talk) 14:23, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

"The communist author..."?
This has been changed from the previous text "The author and communist...". She wrote novels and poetry that had nothing to do with communism, so she was both an author and a communist, not a communist author. She was much better known as an author than as a communist, writing very popular novels that had large sales at the time. Calling her a "communist author" is less accurate than describing her as an author and communist. She had never lived in a communist country as far as I know, and became disillusioned with communism at the end of her life. So I am going to revert this clumsy edit. 92.24.186.92 (talk) 14:47, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

"Either" more grammatical than "each"
Reverted "a wide unspoilt sandy beach stretching for miles in each direction" back to "a wide unspoilt sandy beach stretching for miles in either direction". As there are only two choices - north or south - then it is more grammatical and more precise to say either. If it were possible to travel along the beach in more than two directions, such as going east as well, then each would be correct. 92.28.246.148 (talk) 11:06, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

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No caravan parks
Another good thing about Winterton, which makes it different from almost everywhere else along the east Norfolk coast, is that there are no caravan parks. 92.3.54.61 (talk) 08:53, 8 August 2020 (UTC)