Colorful Beach Huts

Beach huts like these trace back to the bathing machines of the 1800s, little wooden changing rooms on wheels that horses pulled right into the sea. As bathing customs relaxed, the huts lost their wheels and stayed on the sand. A weathered boardwalk runs past a row of brightly painted huts, a cheerful beach hut jigsaw puzzle. Today a hut in a popular English seaside town can sell for as much as a small house.