Turntable Gallery

The Turntable Gallery sits in Cleethorpes, a working arts space that punches above its weight for a seaside town. It's housed in a converted Victorian building with decent-sized gallery rooms showing contemporary work - painting, sculpture, printmaking, installations. The kind of place where you'll see actual artists in the studio spaces, which makes the whole thing feel less sterile than your typical white-cube gallery.

You're not here for blockbuster exhibitions or household names. This is properly community-focused, which means the work's refreshingly unpolished sometimes, occasionally brilliant, always worth a look. Allow an hour if you're unhurried, thirty minutes if you're just passing through. Best suited to anyone interested in contemporary art or keen to see what local creative types are doing - less appealing if you're after big spectacle or Instagram moments.

Admission details aren't entirely clear from their website, so ring ahead or check when you're planning to visit. It works nicely as a cultural breather if you're staying at Haven Cleethorpes Beach Holiday Park nearby - gives you something to do beyond the usual seaside circuit. Cleethorpes isn't known for heavyweight art venues, so the Turntable offers a genuinely different angle on the town. The seafront is two minutes' walk away, so you can easily combine this with fish and chips and a proper paddling.