Why Nobody Wants to Visit Britain's Sunshine Coast Anymore: Bournemouth

This is the story of a resort that sold Victorian Britain sea air as a cure for tuberculosis — and was then undone by a council forced to fill three seafront hotels with something other than tourists. A Bournemouth tragedy of Scots pines planted for their scent, a health claim nobody believes anymore, a 171 million pound hole in the education budget, debts over 370 million pounds, and the quiet turning of curtained windows along the same promenade Lewis Tregonwell built in 1810.