From the Old Stone Bridge to the pier. It has looked roughly the same for a hundred years.
The High Street runs from the Old Stone Bridge over the River Seabrook to the pier. The buildings are stone and painted render, two or three storeys high. Most of the shops went up between 1860 and 1900, when the visitors first came, and the street has changed very little since.
Harper’s Bookshop stands midway along, in a building that leans slightly, between the bakery and the Seabrook Medical Centre. Finch’s Tea Room is at the pier end, next to the newsagent. Elsewhere on the street are the post office, a butcher, a pharmacy, a greengrocer’s, a charity shop and the office of the Seabrook Chronicle. Steps lead down to the harbour promenade.
The bakery has a green awning and sells its sausage rolls warm. A delivery van outside the butcher’s may block half the street. This is not peculiar to Seabrook.
The pancake race is run along the High Street on Shrove Tuesday. On every other day the pace is slower.
On the map
Named on the town map.
Appears in
- Book 0Prequel A Small Matter of a Missing Cat
- Book 1 Murder at Seabrook Pier
What the locals say
“It moves at a pace that suits people who have lived here long enough to know there’s no hurry.”
