Incredibly while the housing market is in the doldrums the market for small, wooden huts that line the beachfronts of some of the UK’s oldest holiday resorts is bouyant! Beach huts in Scarborough are fetching £35,000, the same price as some one-bedroom flats in the town, and you can’t even sleep in them!
Scarborough claims to be the town that gave us the bathing hut. In the 18th Century, it was a mobile hut hauled down the beach to protect nervous bathers while they “took the waters” to improve their health. As the Brits abandoned these shores for cheap sun and sand holidays on the beaches of Europe they became run down and dilapitated, but a recent revival has seen them spruced and once again brightening the seaside scene.
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