It’s pretty inevitable that almost everyone reading this at least from the UK will have either experienced a short break or a holiday by the great British seaside. I admit to having spent plenty myself when younger mostly around the south Devon, Dorset and Cornwall coastlines on beaches hunting for fossils.
During this period, many of the seaside resorts were in rather a bad way as more and more people deserted them for warmer climates and sangria’s in the sun, and a lot have declined to such a point that it is unclear how they could be revived.
However the good news is that around the turn of the Millennium, the seaside resort quietly started to become “hip” with the movers and shakers, and what they discover one year the rest of us usually pick up on soon after. It has taken a little longer than usual for the seaside to become cool again and a lot of investment money, but many resorts are now updating their image, repainting the buildings and generally trying to attract a new generation back to the wonders of the family seaside holiday.
As we reported a little while back, Weston-Super-Mare has spent £50m revamping the Weston-Super-Mare pier and other examples include the Art Deco Midland Hotel in Morecambe which underwent a huge restoration programme to bring the original building back to life.
