Chalets at Humberston Fitties

Image: © Chris Taken: 7 Feb 2013

The chalets are not cleared for full-time residential use, but the fight is on to allow 50-weeks-per-year use so that the owners can spend some time there in the winter. 'Fitties' is a local word meaning 'salt marsh'. The Humberston Fitties were originally one of a number of fitties along this part of the coastline. The Humberston Fitties developed when the area was divided up into plots of different sizes during the 1920's. These areas became known as plot lands. During the First World War the coastal area was used for billeting soldiers who were stationed in the nearby Haile Sands Fort. After the war a local family set up a tent so they could have access to fresh air to combat ill health. The following year they erected a chalet and after the soldiers were demobbed other people moved in with tents or into the original camp huts used by the soldiers. More holidaymakers arrived bringing their own accommodation in the form of caravans, buses and old railway carriages. As the area developed holiday chalets were built on stilts and wheels because the area was prone to flooding. See: http://www.nelincs.gov.uk/resident/arts--events-and-tourism/humberston-fitties/history-humberston-fitties/

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