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WithernseaWithernsea, population around 4000, is a seaside resort town in the East Riding of Yorkshire which forms the focal point for a wider community of small villages in Holderness. Its most famous landmark is the white inland lighthouse, standing around 38 metres above Hull Road. The lighthouse, no longer active, now houses a museum to 1950s actress Kay Kendall who was born in the town. Like many seaside resorts, Withernsea has a wide promenade which reaches north and south from Pier Towers, historic entrance to a rather unlucky 364 metre (nearly 1200 feet) long pier, built in 1877 at a cost of 12,000. The pier was gradually reduced in length by consecutive impacts with local seacraft, colliding with the Saffron in 1880 before being smashed by an unnamed ship in 1888, again by a Grimsby fishing boat and again by the Henry Parr in 1903, leaving the once grand pier with a mere 15 metres (about 50 feet) of sorry wood and steel. Town planners decided to remove the final section during construction of sea defences during this period. Withernsea, like many British resorts, has suffered from a decline in the number of visiting holidaymakers (known affectionately by the locals as 'diggers') over the last decades of the 20th century. The once sparkling neon lights of the numerous amusement arcades ('muggies') lining the stretch behind Queen Street (the local high street) now seem decrepit and are a magnet for the town's undesirables and burgeoning drug problem. Even the once popular Teddy's nightclub is now renamed title="sands[link titl">sands[link titl — with no reference to the naughty postcard humour of old. The town is also home to a nine-hole golf course, a large school complex (on a well designed and unusual site incorporating infant, junior and high schools) and an RNLI lifeboat museum. There are several miles of pebble beaches over which large clay cliffs loom. Coastal erosion is a significant problem for coastal villages in the area, and much of the local council's money has been spent on upgrading the town's sea defences: huge stone boulders now protect the sea wall. At the moment the seawall is being extended on the south end the barges bring in the large boulders is stationed off shore even in these wintry seas. some nice waves for surfers though. its easter and the sun is shining we are on our way to a great summer. The caravan sites are opening up and the town is awash, with wessis or comforts. as the local call the visitors. like comfor day comfor week. but its a nice little town. you have to visit to feel its welcome. well easter was somewhat overcast the cold sea mist made it damp but the town was fairly well attended no doubt the arcades made a few bob extra. we are getting the odd day of sunshine now spring is in the air. the anglers are on the beach nearly every day now. the rock protection work is still on going. more wessis are coming every week. watch this page for further up dates. its really sunny today sunday 3rd april the markets open and loads of visitors are abound. Extenal link - [http://withernsea2005.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk
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