Eastbourne and Big Beach Protection works

[Bigplumbs]

Had to visit the Eastbourne area at the weekend for work so decided to do another little video as a keepsake. I thought some of you who might hail from or know the area might be interested in the large scale Beach protection works that are being carried out at the moment.
I remember sailing past when I helped my friend bring his Naid sail boat from the Hamble to 'Ipswich'

 

[sarabande]

FWIW in the late 1940s and 50s, there was great concern in Eastbourne at the depletion rate of the pebbles and granules on the very beaches you have videoed. This was at the time of great Channel dredging operations to pick up sand and small pebbles for the construction industry.

I can remember as a sprog the beaches at Holywell (far west of the promenades) being full to the level of the walkway, and a very active groyne building programme to trap the drift. For many years a local company had a contract to bulldoze large amounts of beach from the Crumbles (Eastern end of the town, a bit like Dungeness)) and truck it to the western end and dump the beach material on the last beach before the start of the chalk cliffs.

There seems to be a long, perhaps 30 year cycle of the beach material moving up Channel and then returning out to sea to be re-deposited in due course.

There are many more controls nowadays on where sea material can be dredged.

It was far from unknown for us to find munitions being washed ashore. We became quite skilled at amateur bomb disposal.

 

[Bigplumbs]

FWIW in the late 1940s and 50s, there was great concern in Eastbourne at the depletion rate of the pebbles and granules on the very beaches you have videoed. This was at the time of great Channel dredging operations to pick up sand and small pebbles for the construction industry.

I can remember as a sprog the beaches at Holywell (far west of the promenades) being full to the level of the walkway, and a very active groyne building programme to trap the drift. For many years a local company had a contract to bulldoze large amounts of beach from the Crumbles (Eastern end of the town, a bit like Dungeness)) and truck it to the western end and dump the beach material on the last beach before the start of the chalk cliffs.

There seems to be a long, perhaps 30 year cycle of the beach material moving up Channel and then returning out to sea to be re-deposited in due course.

There are many more controls nowadays on where sea material can be dredged.

It was far from unknown for us to find munitions being washed ashore. We became quite skilled at amateur bomb disposal.

there was a board out describing what they were doing when we were there and it is much like you said. It was interesting also as there was a big sign on the dump trucks saying they ran on bio fuel and also one guy was metal detecting I wonder if he found any old munitions.

the amount of material they were moving seemed vast and in The Ariel video it looks kind of small