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I've edited this page to make it more like a Wikipedia entry, including removing the Advert banner. It may be thought that the article still reads too much like an advert, but since the subject matter is a holiday resort and nearly all its infrastructure serves that industry - then any description of its appearance and facilities are going to reflect the golf course, holiday parks and "bucket and spade" enterprises. Pengersick Castle is the one exception, which was included in the original entry anyway. It would be like trying to describe Las Vegas without sounding like an advert for casinos.
Even as someone living locally I know very little any earlier incarnation. As its name suggests it is a sandy beach first and a community second. Perhaps before its present incarnation the local landowners would dredge sand to "dress" the fields, or small boats would carry away cargoes of tin, or a few fishermen would set pots and so forth - but there is scant evidence. The golf course is on the site of an old mine, but including the derelict pump tower, chimneys and stamping houses as part of the courses hazards would only have made the article more like a brochure.
What I have given is an honest appraisal of the locality. If it sounds like an advert, that is because it reflects the nature of the beast.LessHeard vanU 22:23, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
