Folkestone’s seafront has been transformed by art in the past decade

Four Folkestone triennials have drawn thousands of visitors to the once-deprived town, bringing a creative energy and new food and music venuesForget donkeys – in Folkestone’s early 20th century heyday, holidaymakers rode llamas along the beach. The town had the royal seal of approval: the Grand hotel was a favourite bolthole of the Prince of Wales and his mistress Alice Keppel. It also had the glamour of an international rail port, with boat trains for Boulogne arriving at the harbo