From a bag of chips to cod confit: a tour of twenty English seaside resorts

The English seaside resorts are alive and well, with a wealth of fascinating histories, eccentricities, and English quirkiness, mixed up with deep-seated problems of poverty, poor health, and uncertain futures. They are diverse places, reinvigorated by creative thinking, new entrepreneurship, and fresh investment, and are using the skills and abilities of their residents to drive changes with local impact. This book will encourage you to make your own visits and learn a little about the seaside resort, a curiously English creation that we all inspired, abandoned, and then re-discovered.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 29 August 2023
Publisher: The Conrad Press

The English seaside has a unique allure that draws millions of people to stroll its promenades and enjoy the funfair, sand, fish and chips, and the ocean. Charles Dickens once described the ocean as "winking in the sunlight like a drowsy lion." However, when the author discovered that his home town had come bottom in a "Which?" review of the best to worst seaside resorts in the UK for three years on the trot, he was spurred on to go on his own tour of these resorts. He found a wealth of fascinating histories, eccentricities, and English quirkiness, mixed up with deep-seated problems of poverty, poor health, and uncertain futures. However, he also discovered that our resorts are diverse places, reinvigorated by creative thinking, new entrepreneurship, and fresh investment. They are carefully curating their brands and images, seeking out new ideas and funding, and using the skills and abilities of their residents to drive changes with local impact. This book will encourage you to make your own visits and learn a little about the seaside resort, a curiously English creation that we all inspired, abandoned, and then re-discovered.

Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781915494719