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The Louthleader reports BRITAIN’S first cloud watching platform will open along our coast next week with BBC weatherman Paul Hudson set to cut the ribbon. The £30,000 wooden structure on the beach at Anderby Creek will allow visitors to recline on specially designed seating and identify various cloud formations. Paul Hudson said: “We are doing… Continue reading Want to watch clouds from a shed on the beach, now you can!
24dash reports photo credit: Dave Hamster Beach huts are bucking the economic trend with buyers splashing out £40,000 a time for the sea-view sheds. Nine buyers have paid for a 25-year lease on the beach huts on Bournemouth seafront without even seeing them. The 8ft by 11ft huts have been dubbed glorified sheds and have… Continue reading Beach huts sell for £40,000 each
We have two great new comps 1) Win Tickets to the RHS Show at Cardiff Our friends at Cardiff Council and the RHS have given me Five pairs of tickets to give away to the excellent RHS Cardiff Show Trowels at the ready – the RHS Show Cardiff returns to the parklands of Cardiff Castle… Continue reading Two great competitions to win Stuff on readersheds
Former Shed of the Year Judge and friend of readersheds Kathryn Ferry, has her great book out – Beach Huts and Bathing Machines . As your know I am fond of these Sheds by the Sea, and as Kathryn is an expert on these structures so it should be a good read.. Behind the enduring… Continue reading Beach Huts and Bathing Machines
According to the Journal photo credit: Glen Bowman THE return of the traditional beach hut is not too far away as redevelopment work by Newcastle-based Ian Darby Partnership (IDP) on the Blyth Beach promenade nears completion. Blyth Valley Borough Council appointed the architect last year to develop an attraction to benefit the local community as… Continue reading Beach huts to return to Blyth, Northumberland
This is kent reports BEACH huts which have been in use since the 1920s could finally be given planning permission after almost a century in a legal blind spot. Thanet council applied for planning consent after a member of the public pointed out that they probably needed permission to put up hundreds of temporary huts… Continue reading Waiting for nearly 100 years for planning permission
As reported by Sheddie Tim over at MSB news This morning at about 3am a serious fire took hold at Mudeford Sandbank destroying four huts entirely and another two severely. Early reports indicate a party with alcohol and fireworks was in progress at or near the scene overnight. Because site licence hut regulations prohibit overnight… Continue reading Beach Hut fire costs £100,000
The trumpet of truth is reporting THERE may be a credit crunch and widespread economic gloom, but seaside lovers in Swansea are still snapping up wooden beachside huts at £10,000 a time. The brightly-painted shoreline bathing huts lined with palms at Langland Bay, Swansea, are featured on postcards and countless photographs and paintings. They also… Continue reading £10,000 10-year lease for beach huts
Those mad sheddies have been queuing for 4 days to grab a beach hut at Mudeford according to the BBC As many as 50 people queued in tents for up to four days in sub-zero temperatures to be in with a chance of getting a lease on a Dorset beach hut. Lets on the wooden… Continue reading Seaside sheddies Qing for 4 days for huts
Normally the beach huts we mention are Sheds by the sea here in blighty but to grab search engines hits I thought would post about a UK royal and her beach hut antics… well you have to try! Well according the the Daily Mail, Princess Eugenie stayed in a cheap beach hut on here gap… Continue reading Beach hut of the week : Fernandes Resort, Goa