Our Covid media coverage. A hotel photo essay

Tuesday Newsletter

Here in the seaside village, businesses come and go and vanish from your memory.

The shop that was selling kites and books closes and a FOR LEASE sign goes up. And then it’s a pet shop, and later a computer shop and eventually, like water finding its way to the sea, it becomes a café.

Even the Esplanade Hotel has been many things in its many decades. It …