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7 pretty towns on the UK’s south coast With quaint tearooms, beach huts as colourful as India’s Holi festival and new art sculptures courtesy of England s Creative Coast, south England’s seaside towns have never been so tempting 1. Margate Turner Contemporary, Margate (Thierry Bal/England s Creative Coast) Once down at heel, Margate has morphed into a hip seaside town thanks to the Turner Contemporary, which opened on the edge of the beach in 2011. Art fans should look out for Michael Rakowitz’s April is the Cruellest Month sculpture, which is modelled after a soldier who served in Iraq in 2003 – one of seven new outdoor artworks by top artists that are strung along the south coast.
By Torfaen Museum Micah Lewis, seated on the right, who was head packer at Town Forge in Pontypool for over 30 years, taken in 1920. Picture: Torfaen Museum. IN THE early nineteenth century, Molly Hanbury Leigh of Pontypool House introduced some regeneration and landscaping of Pontypool Park, including the building of the Shell Grotto, Rustic Arbour, picnic features along the brook, kitchen gardens and palm houses, a new stable block (now the museum) and other features - as was the garden fashion of the day. As part of the landscaping, it was decided that the forge in the park would have to be removed to another site and so it was closed down in the park (now the site of Pontypool RFC) and moved across the river to the town behind Osborne Road (the area now the site of Riverside car park and adjacent housing) – utilising the water from the Afon Lwyd, like its sister Osborne Forge further up river at Pontnewynydd.
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1. Cross the bridge and pass the front of the Active Living Centre to enter Pontypool Park. Beyond the building turn right and follow the broad drive heading towards Pontymoile Gates for a short distance. Ignore the first left turn towards the ski slope but around 100 yards further on turn left to take a clear but unmade path rising into the woods. The path soon becomes a wide sandstone track climbing through the trees. Further up it passes through a tunnel and emerges to ascend a grassy glade. Near the top a sign post indicates a right fork to the Shell Grotto, which you can now see crowning the top of the ridge ahead. A final short but steep climb brings you up to the building.