The embrace of the seaside in Britain came as trains and paid holidays, extended working Britain's lifetime travel tracks to hundreds of miles from a handful of miles. By 1981 more people were taking their two-week summer holiday abroad than at home. But if you go down south in Margate, the seaside resort in the southeast of England, things are changing. Londoners who've been priced out of buying a house in the capital have started to turn up in the seaside terms. The old neon seaside signs that promised tropical beaches and Tyrannosaurus rexes, they're going.