Property News · October 10, 2014

Let’s move to Sidmouth, Devon


‘If John Betjeman implies that Sidmouth is the loveliest seaside resort in England, who are we to argue?’What’s going for it? “Farewell, seductive Sidmouth by the sea/Older and more exclusive than Torquay, Sidmouth in Devon,/you’re the town for me!” And on the subject of lovely places, what John Betjeman says goes. If he implies that Sidmouth is the loveliest seaside resort in England, who are we to argue? Ditto Ernest Bevin, who used to holiday here with Flo. There is still a touch of the Betjeman-ish past in the town. It seems relatively, beautifully untroubled by modernity, strung between Budleigh Salterton and Seaton at the unfashionable, un-artisan end of both Lyme Bay and Devon. Not that it’s faded. Not a bit of it; the town is spick and span, and gleaming in whitewash or magnolia. The centre is packed tight with putting greens, municipal gardens, bandstands and croquet clubs, and pretty old buildings, the kind that would have tickled Sir John’s fancy, housing general stores, bakers, hotels called the Belmont or the Bedford, and the glorious Fields of Sidmouth department store, still going strong, with “service as it used to be”. Oh Sidmouth, you’re the town for me.The case against Not one little thing. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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