A historic pier, a sandy beach, and of course, fish and chips , mark Skegness out as a quintessentially British seaside resort.

Thanks to claims that sea air was an essential health-booster, the Lincolnshire coastal spot enjoyed a heyday in Georgian and Victorian Britain.

Visitors would travel to Skegness en masse on the bus from Boston ; bathing machines were dotted around the beach to encourage modest, umbrella-clad sunbathing, and Alfred Tennyson was rumoured to have stayed there, inspiring some of the landscapes he wrote about.

But as the years have gone on, it hasn’t exactly maintained the best reputation. Headlines have called it a ‘ vulgar hellhole ’ and a ‘ ghost town ’, and in 2023, it ranked bottom in Which?’s poll of British seaside destinations.

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