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Seahouses townscape development

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Each place is made up of a recipe of ingredients there will be many similarities between recipes but there will also be differences and omissions. Seahouses has ganseys in it, Wooler doesn't but they both have a healthy amount of Northumberland in them!

Seahouses today thrives on tourism and tourism is essentially about welcoming in guests. Welcoming is a general human act and in Seahouses (and other coastal settlements) there is a history of offering welcome and shelter to those in need. To welcome somebody we need a threshold to be crossed, a boundary between public and private, a point at which the person becomes a guest - a ship-wrecked mariner becomes the guest of a family, a tourist becomes a guest of the town, etc. Cut the place through and these themes are ever present - the harbour as shelter (haven), and the houses as shelter; shelter from the elements.

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