A SEASIDE resort's illicit industry is centre stage once again.

A total of 17,495 people visited the three-room Saltburn Smugglers exhibition, next to the town's Ship Inn, last year.

The museum aims to land its 250,000th visitor for its tenth year.

The exhibition spotlights the double life of John Andrew, a past landlord of the pub - and a smuggler back in the 1780s.