Guy Martin's How Britain Worked - Ep. 3 - The Seaside (Advance Reaction)
Added 2023-12-24 10:00:04 +0000 UTCEnjoy now and Sunday, January 21st on Youtube!
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The place Guy went to was Llandudno, (which has an odd Welsh pronunciation similar to clan-did-no, but the cl- sound is a unique consonant). June is a bit cold, best time at British seasides is August. Brighton has great community but a terrible beach. Blackpool has a superb amusement park (Blackpool Pleasure Beach), a reasonable beach and lots of attractions. Best beach by far is Bournemouth to Poole, and that’s probably the warmest too. At the end of the famous Jurassic Coast. I live nearby and would be pleased to show you around.
Mark Beard
2024-01-14 14:07:25 +0000 UTCBritain's entry into the Industrial Revolution meant that for the first time ordinary British workers could travel cheaply for long distances. This worked well with new urban factories needing annual maintenance. Entire populations in Manchester and Sheffield were sent away on "Wakes Weeks", organised mass holidays where workers and their families could enjoy unheard of luxuries like other people cooking and cleaning for them, as well as very, very cheap and tatty entertainment and tourist trap gifts (The Queen of these was Blackpool, now more open sewer than beach resort, with a huge unemployment problem. It's like a very low rent Atlantic City or Las Vegas) My mother visited the UK in 2005 and stayed with me for 2 weeks. At her suggestion we visited Llandudno. We loved the Victorian seaside town charm, the Great Orme peninsula that overlooks the town (complete with Bronze Age mines )and Conwy Castle, an hour's gentle amble to the South. I love North Wales, it sometimes feels like the 21st century has been lightly superimposed on an older, wilder, more magical time.
Michael Nolan
2023-12-24 16:48:38 +0000 UTCLlandudno
Kieran B
2023-12-24 13:26:30 +0000 UTC
