The world is inherently unstable, along comes a train a resort appears, along comes a ‘plane a resort disappears, along comes a virus and people disappear.
Whole chunks of the land fall in the sea, eventually.
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The South Bay Gardens were slipping away.
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Some of the oldest sun bathing chalets almost became an Arts Hub.
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Seaside chalets were under threat, with the cause believed to be the failure of a retaining wall.
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The swimming pool has been and gone, only an empty shell remains.
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There are speculative plans and piecemeal repairs, but these are difficult times, and attracting substantial finance and flocks of tourists to revitalise the town, is no simple matter.
From 2011 I have visited South Bay, intrigued by all the above, but there’s a special place in my heart for these concrete chalets.
They never get a mention.
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Here they are some years ago.
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The primary coloured paint almost still fresh on their well locked doors.
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They stand forlorn on the concrete shore overlooking an indifferent North Sea, hoping for a future in an uncertain age.
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As I snapped I chatted to a local ANTIFA Anarcho Punk – ex Mansfield Miner and political activist, he feared that they would be swamped by some tidal wave of gentrification.
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If so when, not soon.
As a post script I have been informed that the site was used as a kid’s den in the CBBC TV series All at Sea!
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