It was built in the 1920s as a modest holiday destinationfor blue-collar workers arriving by train from New York, but by the time of the jet age, the city had fallen into complete disrepair.
With the airspace having been closed, a marathon trek started with a train journey from Nottingham to London, followed by a faster, sleeker train from London to Brussels and then the longest road trip of my life to the destinationfor Saturday's WBC super-middleweight title defence against Mikkel Kessler.