Weymouth: beach huts

I've written about Brits and their beach huts on this blog before, back in June 2019, so I won't rehash here what I've said before; you can read that for yourselves if you're interested by clicking on the link above. Suffice to say that the concept of the beach hut is alive and well – one might even say thriving – in the Dorset seaside town of Weymouth.

In that previous blog I wrote: 'My eye is drawn to the design of the different huts and their wonderful vibrant colours, and the way they sit in the land- or town-scape. They are very photogenic, and I hope to find more to photograph.' Well, now I have and here they are....

Greenhill Gardens, on Weymouth beach front, is home to two separate and very different areas of beach hut constructions. The earliest, most imposing and most unusual is the two-storey building containing a total of 45 beach chalets, 31 on the ground level – the earliest part of the building, and an additional 14 on the second level (according to the English Heritage website – I didn't actually count them). You can read a brief summary of the interesting story behind their construction on the Greenhill Gardens website.

The gardens also contain a further two single-storey terraces of huts, colourfully painted and located in a slightly elevated, well-maintained garden setting. For more comprehensive detail on the actual buildings and the reasons they are Grade-II listed, here's a link to the entry on the Historic England website.

This final grouping of beach huts is set to the north of the Greenhill Gardens huts, and appears to be a more modern construction that includes a shallow pool in front. Though my photographs don't show any of the huts in use, that is simply because I wanted to avoid invading people's privacy – many of the huts were in use during my three visits to Weymouth this past summer.