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Herne Bay Through Time (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Herne Bay Through Time (Paperback, UK ed.)
Series: Through Time
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List price R493
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Discovery Miles 4 470
You Save R46 (9%)
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Herne Bay rose to prominence in the 1830s when a group of London
investors recognised its potential and built a pleasure pier and
promenade here, making it one of the UK's earliest seaside resorts.
Its popularity increased when the railway reached this part of Kent
and continued to do so throughout the Victorian era. However, like
many other seaside resorts, its popularity as a holiday destination
steadily declined after the Second World War when there was an
increasing preference for overseas travel. Following extensive
seafront regeneration in the 1990s, a jetty was built to create a
small harbour for leisure boats and from where tourists could take
boat trips to a seal-watching site in the Thames Estuary. The
Victorian seafront gardens were fully restored, as was the Central
Bandstand, after many years of neglect and closure to the public.
Today, Herne Bay is slowly regaining its popularity as a holiday
resort and is a firm favourite with daytrippers. Its glory days are
slowly returning.
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