How are England's coastal resorts faring?
In the 1950s, English coastal resorts throbbed with holidaymakers. Nowadays, seaside towns are more commonly associated with decay and poverty than popularity and prosperity.
"When that first truck pulls in here, it'll be a sigh of relief for everybody," he says on the morning of its arrival.The Norfolk town's Pleasure Beach has been in his family since the 1950s, but the pandemic has brought logistical problems never faced before.Between 5,000 and 6,000 people normally enter the attraction on a busy summer's day.
"If we get open by 11 July and get the six weeks' holiday then it's not going to be a total disaster." In the Jay family for the past four decades, the circus is on a run of three consecutive record-breaking years and had added four weeks to its programme because of its success.Jack's brother Ben says they had been getting visitors in their 20s and 30s from London"who have never been to Yarmouth before - they're blown away by it".
"That first time that somebody spends a prolonged period of time in an enclosed space is going to be daunting," he says.Albert Jones fears"places like this will close" if they have to go through two winters without income He says the area relies heavily on the money made during the summer months, and if there were to be a second coronavirus peak"it would be catastrophic".
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