How the long tail of the coronavirus crisis 'threatens survival' of Britain's already-battered seaside towns

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How the long tail of the coronavirus crisis 'threatens survival' of Britain's already-battered seaside towns
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Back in the Fifties, during what was still the golden age of the British seaside, Brian O’Conner used to earn pocket money working as a barrow boy in his home town ofEvery Saturday of high season from the age of nine he would take his father’s wheelbarrow to the train station where, all day long, tens of thousands of visitors were disgorged for a week’s holiday.

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