Walberswick’s history starts in Saxon times, it was a thriving port in the 13th century and World War 2 saw the dunes strewn with concrete blocks and pill-boxes against a possible invasion. Walberswick has always attracted artists, Charles Rennie Mackintosh lived and painted here, and Philip Wilson Steer spent summer holidays painting here, the latter being the subject of a great 1992 film “The Bridge” which is almost impossible to find on DVD, but can now be found on YouTube. Today’s well-known watercolour artists make a regular pilgrimage, and many celebs now have homes here, including the author Esther Freud who has written novels based on this part of the Suffolk coast.. She came here regularly as a child with her father, the artist, Lucian Freud, to the family holiday home in Walberswick.. While Southwold, across the river, is famous for its long, neat rows of multi-coloured beach huts, the few at Walberswick are much more organic and utilitarian, as shown in my sketch which I did sat on the dunes, looking over the huts and the River Blyth towards Southwold.