Do English resorts offer value for money during the August Bank Holiday? How far will 50 bob stretch in some of the most popular seaside destinations? BBC News sent Gerald Harrison to Blackpool, Tony Scance to Great Yarmouth and Hugh Scully to Torquay, to find out.

Originally broadcast 29 August, 1966.





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