THE AMUSEMENT ARCADE ON SILLOTH GREEN-
or rather, THE BATHS ON SILLOTH GREEN
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My mother's family always called it "Blakeys" but it used to have the words "Paramount Amusements" on the front. The building has not exactly gained in beauty over the years I've known it, but it remains one of the fixtures of the seaside resort of Silloth, on the Solway Firth in north-west Cumbria. This web-page attempts the beginnings of a history of what started out as a very different sort of tourist attraction, a set of baths built to rival those in nearby Allonby, just two years after the opening of the railway made it possible for tourists to visit this wild stretch of the Cumbrian coastline.