Country Life’s cultural commentator Athena looks at the sad plight of Britain’s seaside towns, but has hopes that things may be heading in the right direction.
On a train heading from London to the South-West recently, Athena found herself surrounded by American visitors travelling to the World Heritage Site that is Bath. How many of them, she wondered, had heard of our beautiful Georgian resorts of Weymouth, Sidmouth or Lyme Regis? Despite being an island nation with…
