A ONCE popular and booming seaside holiday resort is now a deserted “ghost town” – with an amazing secret. The Pontins Holiday Park in Brean, Somerset, was once a thriving hot spot for families fro…
isn’t the only holiday park in Brean but it’s the largest and best known so its closure will make a dent in the profits of local businesses.He previously told The Sun: “It has the feel of a one-horse town where even the horse has left. At this time of year it’s never very busy but we are fearful for the coming season.
“Pontins had a weekly turnover of 3000 people coming into the resort and although there are many caravan sites around the loss of so many visitors and there spending power will be huge.” Dan Dare, 57, a former motorbike stunt rider, from Weston-super-Mare, said: “Whenever I ride into Brean The Specials song ‘Ghost Town’ always comes into my head.
“I think that the loss of so many tourists will have a massive effect on small shop keepers in the area. “All these construction workers aren’t going to be buying buckets and spades or rubber rings for the beach.“Things might get a bit busier when the 'Brummie Navy’ head to the coast. They come down in their hundreds fromVisitors Tony and Jackie Edwards from Evesham love coming to Brean for the very fact that it is quiet.
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