Comment by flarg

I grew up in a nearby English seaside town around the time the photographs were taken and as a child I was taken to the places in the photos by my family. These were once bustling places full of holidaying industrial workers but as the UK's industrial base declined so did these resorts; better service and weather was available overseas for not much more in terms of real cost. My hometown is now a standard English costal town, renovated 50 years too late by private developers to whom the local authorities have sold or leased land at rock bottom prices, a heady mix of drug addicts, tracksuited iPhone Facebook addicts and old dears struggling with their trolley bags. Still a lovely place to be when the weather is fine, but basically, purgatory.