Visiting Peacehaven - Summer 2015
I found Peacehaven a very odd place. Mostly because walking along the promenade was very lonely. Barely anyone had ventured down the many steps to the front or by the slope at the other end and the big chalk cliffs, tower above the promenade like skyscrapers! I'd never seen such high cliffs - well you could count beachy head, but I've never seen cliffs so high from below before EVER.
I went along the promenade to simply and purely visit the famous cliff steps; Mr Bean walks down in Episode 1: Mr Bean. The steps are oddly placed alongside the cliff in a zig-zag formation so you can touch the cliffs easily as you walk down them, they are very near! I wouldn't want to be going up or down those cliffs if they were to start to erode though! Rock falls = Not very good. The Steps are actually very strenuous and not for the faint-hearted - going up especially is an effort - even for a young person like me!
However, DON'T get confused with the first set of steps you come to if you go down the slope near 'The Smugglers Rest' Pub and Restaurant - Like I did first of all. I walked down the slope and then after a little while, came to a set of cliff steps (pictured; Right). which are known locally as the 'Bastion Steps'. This is NOT the right Set of steps. The Friars Bay Cliff Steps (As Seen in Mr Bean) are about half a mile further a long ( as if you are heading towards Newhaven)
As you can see I left my mark behind as I clambered the tiring walk back up the steps and had a photo near the top (Spot the dot!) Sadly, I thought at the time the cliff face was where mr bean and the blind man were but soon discovered once home that this was no the case and that Mr Bean and the blind man actually went down the seawall steps and onto a small stretch of shingle. - Hopefully next time I return to Peacehaven, I will be able to do this.
Photos Taken by Laura Smith (© LS Photography)
I found Peacehaven a very odd place. Mostly because walking along the promenade was very lonely. Barely anyone had ventured down the many steps to the front or by the slope at the other end and the big chalk cliffs, tower above the promenade like skyscrapers! I'd never seen such high cliffs - well you could count beachy head, but I've never seen cliffs so high from below before EVER.
I went along the promenade to simply and purely visit the famous cliff steps; Mr Bean walks down in Episode 1: Mr Bean. The steps are oddly placed alongside the cliff in a zig-zag formation so you can touch the cliffs easily as you walk down them, they are very near! I wouldn't want to be going up or down those cliffs if they were to start to erode though! Rock falls = Not very good. The Steps are actually very strenuous and not for the faint-hearted - going up especially is an effort - even for a young person like me!
However, DON'T get confused with the first set of steps you come to if you go down the slope near 'The Smugglers Rest' Pub and Restaurant - Like I did first of all. I walked down the slope and then after a little while, came to a set of cliff steps (pictured; Right). which are known locally as the 'Bastion Steps'. This is NOT the right Set of steps. The Friars Bay Cliff Steps (As Seen in Mr Bean) are about half a mile further a long ( as if you are heading towards Newhaven)
As you can see I left my mark behind as I clambered the tiring walk back up the steps and had a photo near the top (Spot the dot!) Sadly, I thought at the time the cliff face was where mr bean and the blind man were but soon discovered once home that this was no the case and that Mr Bean and the blind man actually went down the seawall steps and onto a small stretch of shingle. - Hopefully next time I return to Peacehaven, I will be able to do this.
Photos Taken by Laura Smith (© LS Photography)