Before it was developed
with grand apartments
and hotels, gentlefolk,
and even ladies on their
own, as here, were able to
stroll peaceably along this
quiet stretch of West Cliff.
Like the nearby Butlin's Holiday Camp, it was a pioneer venture; the miners were determined that their people should be able to enjoy cheap holidays of the same kind.
founded by Bishop Henry de Blois in 1136 and is the oldest almshouse in England, originally built to house, clothe and feed 'thirteen poor impotent men, so reduced in strength as rarely or never to be able
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