ABSTRACT
England’s coastal resorts attracted their fair share of Modernist buildings in the 1930s, with middle-class detached houses, semis and terraces being developed mostly individually. Some ambitious projects for large Modernist estates to include luxury hotels and casinos did appear, notably at Churston on the south coast and at Frinton-on-Sea in Essex, but neither of these was ever completed. Both oundered due to the inability of the estate developers to understand the deep-rooted conservatism of the British middle classes, especially their centre core, for which the estates were designed.
