Seaburn Hotel and Promenade c 1930. The Seaburn Hotel was built during the second half of 1936 and opened in time for Easter 1937. This is a pre-war photograph, say about 1938. During the 1960’s the hotel became the haunt of the artist W.S. Lowry, famous for his ‘matchstick men’. The building has been extensively modernised and extended and is now the Marriott Hotel. Caption from Malcolm Fraser.