EXCLUSIVE Inside Cleethorpes - the east-coast rival to Blackpool that's home to 'the smallest pub on the planet' and traditional seaside fun. Is it on YOUR bucket (and spade) list? Andrew Martin finds that Cleethorpes is packed with pretty Victorian streets The Lincolnshire town has a sandy beach, donkey rides, and 'lost in time' chippy Would you like to visit Cleethorpes? Scroll down to have your say in our poll..
. READ MORE: Etiquette expert reveals why you've been eating chips all wrong By Andrew Martin For The Mail On Sunday Published: 09:03 EDT, 26 July 2024 | Updated: 09:04 EDT, 26 July 2024 e-mail View comments A sign on a building by the barrier at Cleethorpes station announces ‘Number 2 Pub’. This has the perverse effect of making me seek out Number 1 Pub, which, it turns out, occupies a former booking office and acts as an informal museum.
Inside, sipping an excellent IPA, I survey framed photos of massed Edwardian trippers flowing from the terminus to the adjacent beach and notice a sign over a memorabilia-stuffed alcove that reads: Watkin Room. 'Amazing fella, Watkin,' says Ray, who works in Number 1. 'He saw all the possibilities of Cleethorpes and he just did it.
' What Sir Edward Watkin did was bring the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincoln Railway (MSLR) from Grimsby to Cleethorpes in 1863. Seaside draw: Andrew Martin travels to Cleethorpes, a coastal town in Lincolnshire, to discover pubs, the promenade and 'delicious' fish and chips. Above is the central prome.
