English beach town to convert derelict seafront shelters into new tourist attractions
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Ramsgate's abandoned shelters are being converted
Credit: The Heritage Lab
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The eight shelters were built in 1935
Credit: The Heritage Lab
The eight shelters - measuring 6m by 2m - look out across the sea but have been left to decay in recent years.
Most of them are now covered in graffiti, without any form of seating.
And the new plans will convert them into attractions such as a food and drinks outlet, as well as a sauna, beach huts, art spaces and fishing huts.
One confirmed shelter will become seating and information screens right by the Grade-I listed Chine
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The shelters, built in 1936, were part of the Marina Bathing
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However, it closed in 1975 and has since been filled in to become a car park.
The Sun visits Wetherspoons largest pubin Ramsgate
Rob Kenyon, CEO, Heritage Lab CIC: "We are excited to be able to kick start this new project thanks to a viability grant from the Architectural Heritage Fund which will help to pay for the research, design and early development costs.
"The project epitomises our ambition to develop curiously creative spaces, and we hope that this will help the regeneration of the East Cliff area and Ramsgate more widely.'
In the mean time, tourists can visit the Ramsgate Tunnels, the UK's largest network of wartime tunnels.
Or there is the Royal Harbour - the only one of it's kind in the UK.
Ramsgate is also home to the world's biggest Wetherspoons.
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reopened as a Wetherspoons in 2017.
We went down to try it out -
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They hope to open by summer 2026
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