As a young boy, Alfred Tennyson and his brothers were taken to Mablethorpe on holiday. This was in the early 1800's. After, a long search for accommodation, they found longings with Mrs. Scamblesby for 25 shillings. It cottage was a mile from the sea. Later, they stayed at Ingolsby House on Quebec Road. Alfred played among the sandhills which formed the sea defenses at the time.

Find "The Book of the Lincolnshire Seaside"
by David N. Robinson in the local library.

When "Poems by Two Brothers" was published in 1827, Alfred and his brother, Charles, hired a carriage and traveled to Mablethorpe. They shouted they out their poems "with no other audience than the deaf sand and the sounding sea waves."

During the following 14 years up to 1843, Alfred visited Mablethorpe staying with Mrs. Wiliman at Marline Villa at the Pullover end of High Street.

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