King of the castle at the beach

The time-honoured place for a summer’s day out is the beach. Whatever the weather, you can always build a sand castle, says Robert Hume. Bucketloads of people have been doing so for generations.

“Pleasant it is even to do intensely stupid things — to be upon the beach and dig a moat round a sand castle, and almost feeling as much interest in it as your little son or daughter rising five,” wrote a visitor to Margate, Kent, in 1862.

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