World's largest deckchair takes centre stage on Bournemouth beach:

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World's largest deckchair takes centre stage on Bournemouth beach

Britain is going all out to celebrate the arrival of summer this year with giant deckchairs – and some unusually warm weather.

It’s Pimm’s o’clock: Sun-starved Britons marvel at the world’s largest deckchair in Bournemouth (Picture: Solent)

Thousands of sun-worshippers are expected to flock to the coast this weekend as temperatures across the south-east soar to 20C.



Even Scotland will see unseasonable highs of up to 16C on Saturday, with Sunday forecast to be even sunnier.
For people in Bournemouth, though, summer started a few days early as the world’s largest deckchair sprung up on the sand.



Taller than a double-decker bus and weighing more than an adult elephant, the deckchair put a smile on the face of everyone who saw it, according to its creator Stuart Murdoch.

The 8.5m (28ft) structure was commissioned by Pimm’s to mark the start of summer (Picture: PA)

The 57-year-old artist has spent three weeks putting the huge structure together after being commissioned by Pimm’s to mark the start of British Summer Time.



Mr Murdoch said: ‘It has been fantastic to see people on the beach pointing at the chair and having their photo taken with it.



‘Deckchairs are so quintessentially British – everyone who has seen it has smiled and it’s great to watch people drawn to it like a magnet.’