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During the summer craft can be hired, and nature plus beach-based activities take place for children of all ages. Be sure to pop into the Tourist Information Centre to find out about the events for youngsters going on during your stay. The Splash swimming pool is a great way to spend a few hours. If you fancy a change from the beach or
was not his only contribution to engineering; often his products were before their time and eventually made him bankrupt. You may never have heard of him but he is responsible for quickening up transport which made it necessary for all England to adopt uniform time.
It was decided to
if the weather is disappointing, children will love the large pool with flume and wave machine, and the beach-style shallow end is ideal for toddlers who want to splash and float about safely. Next door to Splash is Harlequinns leisure which encompasses Screamers playzone with slides, ball-pools and a separate toddler’s area, a ten pin bowling alley, café and bar. The Bude Recreation Ground near the Bude Castle has a super crazy golf course and tennis courts and, if the weather is poor there are indoor games such as table tennis, squash and pool.
The town has many restaurants and cafes, and a plentiful selection of pubs and clubs entertain the older children. For the guys there is a golf club within a stones throw of the shopping centre, and for the gals there are two bingo halls, with many beauty parlours.
Probably Bude’s most famous ancestor was Sir Goldsworthy Gurney who down amongst the sands built Bude Castle in 1830. This remarkable building was the world’s first permanent structure to be built on shifting sands. He invented a technique to overcome the instability by laying a strong concrete platform directly on to the sands for the foundation. A technique which is still used today and is responsible for engineers knowing how to build one of the world’s tallest buildings like the Petronas Towers at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on soft wet limestone. This
set up a standard time from Greenwich and so Greenwich Mean Time came into being
We often speak of someone being in the limelight. Have you ever wondered where that expression came from? Guess who? You are quite right; Sir Goldsworthy invented Limelight by forcing a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen through
a blowpipe to produce a hot flame and then adding lime to create a bright light. He lit the whole of Bude castle with one light using a series of mirrors and then went on to light the Houses of Parliament using three light sources and saving thousands of candles in the process. He also put it to
Bude’s Premier Seafood Restaurant
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Summerleaze Beach, Bude Tel: 01288 355222 Evening Special: 2 Courses £20, 3 Courses £24
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