Beach huts

BlueBelle

I have a lovely wooden beach hut right now I share it with my daughter it’s rented and we waited 13 years on the waiting list for it I love it we can sit outside it and leave all our stuff in there Chairs, table, cups, windbreaks any beach toys kites surfboards etc Towels sea shoes (to stop the weaver fish getting you) there’s a bench a table and hooks on the walls
Wow £90 a day is a lot Silverlining We pay £750 for 12 months I think weekly they are about £80

absolute bargain.. lucky you.. I'd like to be there in the winter too..

A long wait but what a bargain, especially if you don’t live too far away and can get there easily BlueBelle.
Yes £90 a day, in a popular coastal town in Suffolk. Enjoy your beach hut 🛖 I really wish I had one.

Of course it was summer holidays so more expensive than out of season, but they sell fir over £200,000 so I was told. .

I have a much loved beach hut and have many memories from the 24 years since I bought it. Family birthdays usually take place there and I love to entertain friends to 'tea with a view'. My hut holds several folding chairs, a small unit with a gas stove on top, a table and a large chest filled with games, spare clothes, buckets and spades, towels and much else (this is covered with a bright knitted blanket of squares with beach themes and a knitted cushion in the shape of an ice cream cone!). The inside is painted white with shelves for bits and bobs and hooks for mugs and binoculars and a beach hut pattered shower curtain gives privacy for changing. I had wanted a hut since childhood and it is a very happy place which I enjoy sharing with others and also just sitting outside with a book and a cuppa.

We certainly have new modern ones as well as the original ones and they are much more expensive and no one wants to hire them so they stand empty 🤣
I live about 1 minute (if that) away from the sea Silverlining 😀

My cousins in laws have had a Beach hut for years on Hayling Island, still well used by the family.
The Hospital I work at also has a Staff Beach hut which we can book out for free, just need to book in advance.

My dad always rented a beach hut when we went on camping holidays. He always boiled the water for tea on his trusty (usually) Primus while my mum filled rolls. Happy memories of reading and playing Battleships and Cruisers while it poured outside.
Our beach huts were never like these posh ones in Southwold 🤣

Oh how wonderful BlueBelle. I have beach hut envy .😎

I've been struck down with extreme beach hut envy It's probably contagious.

Thank you for all your memories. It has cheered up a grey day.

My parents used to rent a chalet when we had our 2 weeks in Mablethorpe each year.
The smell of the damp concrete, sand and the gas smell when making cups of tea in the huts
And making friends with other children from the East Midlands and South Yorkshire.

My mum and dad bought a beach hut in West Mersea when I was in my late teens. They absolutely loved it and went frequently for two or three days at a time, even though you weren’t supposed to stay overnight! Theirs was one row up from the beach in an elevated position so you had a great view of the sea and a sort of patio just in front where dad would sit in his deckchair reading the morning paper! When we married and the children were babies and then toddlers we would visit them for the day ……it was a cosy happy little hut and will always hold special family memories in my heart. On a recent visit to England my cousin took me down to Mersea and we actually found the beach hut they owned for at least 10 years in the 1960’s……but long since sold when my parents died in the mid 70’s. Wish we had kept it! I think they paid about £400 when they originally bought it!

Oh ….and we would spend hours ‘cockling’ when the tide went out …..then mum would boil them and make us cockle sandwiches with a cup of tea! They were magical times at Mersea !

Always loved beach huts. Never had one at the beach but converted my garden shed into one instead!

Snowbell

Always loved beach huts. Never had one at the beach but converted my garden shed into one instead!

absolutely brilliant,,,,

What a lovely idea pascal30 it looks great.

Indigo8

What a lovely idea pascal30 it looks great.

It is Snowbells hut.. not mine.. but I agree it's a lovely idea

Oh yes cockling. And cold concrete sandy floor with cold wet sand in the ruching of my swimsuit. The very cold wet floor in the public toilets and pulling up a damp sandy swimsuit. Such vivid memories. I can feel it now.

Hopefully more beach huts will be built over the years as more people holiday in the UK as the Mediterranean countries will be too hot in the summer. A couple of years ago my daughter bought me for a birthday a lovely book which I have dug out to re read. "Beach Huts and Bathing Machines" by Kathryn Ferry. I seem to remember that she said that bathing machines were the forerunner to beach huts. The first ones were bathing machines without wheels. Could be wrong...often am.

She also gave mè "Piers and other Seaside Architecture" by Lynn F Pearson. She knows I miss the seaside. Luckily she lives very close to a Victorian pier and many stunning beaches in N Wales as she is a seaside lover as well.

Happy childhood memories of the beach hut my parents rented in Branksome, Bournemouth in the 1950s. It was very basic. A concrete floor, folding chairs and a little gas ring. It was magical - a little home close to the sands and sea. We stayed there all day before making the journey back to our boarding house (2 bus rides away). I love to see beach huts nowadays painted in wonderful colours and seemingly fitted with all mod coms. Recently back from a stay in Whitstable which was a colourful feast of beach huts.

flappergirl
Wow, Mudeford! Beach huts here now go for huge amounts of money!

My parents rented a beach hut at Cliftonville every year. We spent every day on the beach from early morning to the evening. The same families used to rent every year so we always saw the same people. All my parent’s friends knew they were there and would descend on us at the weekend. Poor mum was kept busy making cups of tea but we had enough people for a proper game of cricket.

There’s something wonderfully British about our seaside beach huts, isn’t there?
Many happy childhood memories of loving the quirky little things which probably leave foreign visitors scratching their heads in bewilderment!!

Eye wateringly expensive now though, especially in desirable locations on the south coast.

Periodically they are featured in the newspaper with even fairly humble ones fetching hundreds of thousands of pounds.

We had one in Frinton. Our border collie used to like looking out over the stable door. One day she went flying over the top of the door to chase a seagull. Bang bang bang down the laddered steps outside.

HelterSkelter I was reading a book in Southwold last week and yes, the bathing machines were the for runners of beach huts. It was in a shop on the pier but I can’t remember the name or author.