Teggin's 1966 proposal of a 'Great Wash City'---a city of 750,000 ppl to be built actually in the Lincolnshire Wash!pic.twitter.com/NBYV7b2ZcL
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Woldsea designed for the "better middle class"+retiring colonials: bungalows £150, villas £2000! (pic=planned hotel)pic.twitter.com/zgpWfbA6Ey
Huttoft beach, Lincolnshire; would have lain at the centre of Woldsea seafront had town been built in E20thC, see http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/09/the-great-wash-city-and-woldsea.html …pic.twitter.com/lqIQkNbczB
I read about Woldsea somewhere long forgotten. Any ideas?
David Robinson's Book of the Lincolnshire Seaside? Not sure I've seen anything else...
likely correct. Just moved house: one to revisit. Great book.
@caitlinrgreen Fascinating ... love these towns that never were ...
@coastTV Absolutely :) This one was meant to be a retirement town for colonials, w/out the lower-classes of nearly Skegness and Sutton!
@caitlinrgreen Ha ... they should dust off the plans ... retirement village would be a big hit now
@coastTV I fear the vulnerability of the coast here with expected sea level rises etc would make getting planning permission a challenge!
@caitlinrgreen Coastal engineers could cope ... the Dutch have ... a bold infrastructure project for a new generation :)
@caitlinrgreen ah yes, upmarket - facilities for cricket and golf I see, but no football ;)
@CatherineEsse don't forget tennis courts and a bandstand!
@caitlinrgreen Sandilands Golf Course and G&L Hotel were built then, as were the houses on Sea Bank at Anderby Creek. But never joined up!
@bizorg ah, interesting, thanks! Yes, the G&L's name does sound right for what was planned!
@HARTResearch now this place would *definitely* have had tea shops, if had been built (+croquet lawns, tennis, spa, etc, @caitlinrgreen?) :D
@caitlinrgreen I used to live in Anderby Creek and they actually started work on a Coastal Country Park in the late 1920s, I believe.
@caitlinrgreen Interesting. Isn't it amazing what people mean to do or want to do but get objectors to?
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