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  • Its final incarnation, in the late 1970s, on a rusting hulk called the Mi Amigo some miles off Frinton in Essex, is fondly remembered by me.

    Radio Entropy « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2007

  • It so lacked in breadth of vision that, by comparison, a Mayor of Frinton-on-Sea setting out a programme for upgrading the town's public lavatories would have taken on the mantle of an international statesman.

    Not fit for purpose Richard 2006

  • It is a long way from the champagne bars of Notting Hill to the bowling clubs of Frinton-on-Sea.

    Vince Cable on David Cameron 2006

  • Like saying Felixstowe or Harwich is a shithole when you're campaigning for Frinton on Sea or Walton on the Naze.

    David Davis: Wronged Man Tries to Make a Splash 2008

  • He came up to my Dad in an Indian restuarant in Frinton and read out a poem he'd written, in the style of Betjamen's 'Joan Hunter Dunn', relating to his desire to save Frinton's railway gates, which are scandalously are under threat from Network Rail.

    Can You Beat the Jock? Mike Read on Doughty Street Tonigh 2007

  • Frinton was a seaside resort close to the farmhouse where they used to live.

    28 Days of 2000 AD #7: Steve MacManus Pt. 2 DAVID BISHOP 2007

  • They'd been followed by a handful of folk who remembered safe childhood summers in Clacton and Frinton.

    Fast fiction snippet: Lock-in karentraviss 2005

  • They'd been followed by a handful of folk who remembered safe childhood summers in Clacton and Frinton.

    Fast fiction snippet: Lock-in karentraviss 2005

  • I went to bed early as is my wont but had had a good time up till then; and the next morning enjoyed the fried breakfast at a late hour, helped tidy up a bit, and so forth, until S and I buggered off to Frinton seaside village place at about 4 pm on Sunday.

    Seaside fish and chips (by the skin of our teeth) jinty 2003

  • Frinton is a tiny and well-controlled place, with one pub only licenced this last year or two and merely one fish and chip shop, which we bumped into on the way out of town, having sadly pretty much given up on the idea of seaside chips.

    Seaside fish and chips (by the skin of our teeth) jinty 2003

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