We had kosher food and a pier with an amusement arcade nearby but it was a traditional hotel.

My parents, who had visited Miami and the Catskills, were seeking something equally exotic.

And in the 1960s Bournemouth was THE place for a post-war generation wanting to sample the good life.

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