Property News · December 22, 2017

Let’s move to Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex: it confounds expectations


It has a reputation as a gentle resort for retirees, but underneath stirs a radical heartWhat’s going for it? I often (OK, not that often) wonder what Bob Marley made of Bexhill. Legend has it Marley put on his first UK gig here in 1972, at a Bexhill Lions club benefit concert to raise funds for a local swimming pool. That’s Bexhill for you. It confounds expectations. It has a reputation as a gentle resort for retirees. And it is. But underneath stirs a radical heart. It put on Britain’s first car race, in 1902, had a socialist mayor in the 1930s and was a glamorous retreat for aristocrats and stars (Fanny Cradock and Johnnie!). And on the front sits the gleaming 30s De La Warr Pavilion (where Marley played), an avant-garde architectural curveball as unlikely as finding a Picasso in Nuneaton, and still a pioneer of the cutting edge. Bexhill’s latest about-turn, from the fancy look of its latest homes, is to rebrand itself as a kind of South Downs Malibu. Stranger things have happened. Usually in Bexhill.The case against Still mostly a place of model railway shops and secondhand booksellers (ie my kinda town), so, apart from its racier moments, don’t expect Brighton or Gomorrah. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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