Sally Mayweather
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- • Focus: Sally Mayweather is a freelance journalist and columnist based in East Yorkshire. Bridlington: A Town That Sold Its Soul and Forgot to Collect the Money is the first article by Sally Mayweather on the platform.
- • Includes: Bridlington: A Town That Sold Its Soul and Forgot to Collect the Money
- • Author page: Sally Mayweather
- • Genre: Commentary & Opinion
- • Published on: Tales From A Harrogate Caravan
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Bridlington: A Town That Sold Its Soul and Forgot to Collect the Money
A blunt commentary on Bridlington in East Yorkshire: the faded Victorian seafront, fly-tipping, open drug dealing on a road locals call Death Row, and a town that stopped believing it could be better.
About Sally Mayweather
Sally Mayweather is a freelance journalist and columnist based in East Yorkshire, where she has spent the better part of two decades writing about the parts of Britain that tourism brochures prefer to leave out. A former local news reporter turned independent commentator, she is known for a style that friends generously call "direct" and enemies less generously call "a bit much." Her work has appeared in regional newspapers, satirical outlets, and more than one parish newsletter that later regretted printing it. She grew up a bus ride from the coast and maintains a complicated relationship with seaside towns, having watched several of them slide gracefully into the sea of decline, pound shops, and empty promise. She holds a degree in English from a university she describes as "perfectly adequate," and a longstanding grudge against anyone who uses the phrase "Pride in Place" without irony. When not writing, Ms Mayweather can be found walking her dog along the promenade, avoiding eye contact with vape shop proprietors, and composing letters to the council that she rarely sends but always enjoys drafting. She lives in Bridlington. She would like it noted that she is still here, which she considers a form of stubbornness rather than optimism. Her first collection of essays, The Road Out of Town, is forthcoming from a publisher who has not yet been informed of its contents.
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