ENGLISH SEASIDE RESORTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20531, 24 September 1936, Page 9

ENGLISH SEASIDE RESORTS

“APPALLINGLY UGLY” GERMAN VISITOR'S COMMENT LONDON, August 18. English South Coast seaside resorts are the subject of caustic comment by the London correspondent of a German newspaper in an article entitled, “Mr Jones takes his holiday.” “How appallingly ugly the English seaside is,” says this German journalist. “Ramsgate, Eastbourne, Worthing, Bognor and Bournemouth may originally have been solitary villages, beautiful old fishing ports, romantic haunts of smugglers, or even, like Brighton, a meeting place of elegant London Society. But at holiday time, there is nothing solitary or beautiful, romantic, peaceful or even elegant about them. “The primitive hotels, and above all, the holiday and week-end settlements, with their corrugated iron huts, wooden shacks and rebuilt railway carriages put the stamp of barbarism on the seaside. Further, the shore everywhere consists of stones as big as one’s fist. “In. the lodgings and hotels of all classes and prices, only the man who has no demands whatever could feel at ease. It is any wonder that hundreds of thousands of English people who want so lething better, spend their holidays abroad?”