Tourists swarmed on to Saltburn-by-the-Sea’s pier yesterday, guzzling fish, chips and Mr Whippy ice-creams, but a few hundred yards inland, another great Victorian landmark was eerily quiet.
The seaside town’s historic cricket ground, with its white picket fence and neatly mown outfield, stood empty. Not a single holidaying schoolchild was using its well-tended nets or ‘Arthur Heslop Indoor Training Facility’. The doors to a £600,000 lottery-funded pavilion were bolted shut.
All that could be heard was an occasional seagull, venturing inland from the North Sea. And this unseasonal calm turned out to be at the centre of an utterly toxic storm.
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