Beach huts. Do you have one?

In Mudeford, near where we used to live, they are now around £500,000. The most expensive in Britain I think.

Scribbles you are obviously basing your views on a particular place you’ve visited The beach huts on our beaches around here ( or anywhere I ve been) don’t stop any views at all
All beach huts I ve ever seen, have the prom in front of them so there is no way they can spoil the view at all
So there is sea, beach, prom, huts
Anyway it’s your view whether you like them or not but need to get the fact in that what you describe is not normal

I'm guessing the popularity, and the price, of beach huts went sky high during the pandemic.

There’s not many here at all and those there are cost about the same as a small house or sometimes more. I think I would look for a beach shack first, somewhere a bit remote and cheap!

We never had our own but until recently hired by the week at a Norfolk resort for our fortnights holiday. It was at the bottom of a cliff so although I wanted to fill it with things like pretty blankets and fairy lights the thought of carrying them and all our "gear" back up the steep path at the end of the holiday put me off.
We met a family there most years who lived about an hour away and hired a hut for the whole summer every year - the last time we went they finally had their own after many years on the waiting list. All they got was the rent of the space - they had to provide the actual hut to the approved design plus it had to be removed and stored every winter - I'm not sure if the removal, storage and taking it back (done by the council) were included in their annual rent or not. No water or electricity. There was a drinking water tap nearby and public loos.
But we loved it. Could sit in the hut if it got chilly or would sometimes have to sit out a sudden rain storm, and we weren't carrying our beach stuff every day.

Mamie

In Mudeford, near where we used to live, they are now around £500,000. The most expensive in Britain I think.

They're the most famous ones, I think.

I enjoyed the Interior Design Masters episode where the challenge was to decorate one.

I enjoyed that too biglouis. Apparently the 'caribbean' theme one was hugely popular and always booked up, and the 'American diner' one.

In the 1920s my father’s job took him to the coast every summer for six weeks so hired a beach hut. Not only for cups of tea but changing wet swimsuits, sheltering fromthe rain, but saving taking wet towels and swimming costumes back to the hotel. No loos. There was the sea.

We lived by the sea in my childhood and used to rent a beach hut from the council every summer. They were wooden, built on stilts, with gas inside, three to a veranda with a tap between them. When it was high tide we’d be marooned with the sea coming up underneath the huts. Great fun. In later years my Dad built one and they just used to hire the space to site it for the summer. It had to be dismantled packed on a trolley contraption and wheeled home for storage during the winter. The meals my Mum cooked on the gas ring always tasted better than those cooked at home, and ‘sandy’ sandwiches for tea were a special treat! Happy memories.

I’d love to have one, if we were going to use it a lot.

We once rented one in Lyme when visiting with family and 2 very small Gdcs. It was great - somewhere to leave all the beach paraphernalia, not to mention to retreat to during the odd shower.

My folks would usually rent on for our seaside holidays in the 60s. We had a little primus stove or whatever they were called, for making cups of tea.