Travel back with me to a different world. Before cheap flights and packaged tours. When cars were few and money scarce. When the annual summer holiday was spent beside the British seaside. When trains not planes were used to get there. When holidays were annual bouts of escape and sources of reassurance. Families would book the same fortnight every year and stay in the same seaside town. Hotels were rarefied places; unattractive as well as out of reach for most; the genteel and more affordable option being the Guest House.