Just read this on the BBC site, I was only 1 at the time so can't remeber it but thought may be of interest to the older readers?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/lancashire/ ... 002370.stm
Lloydie wrote:Just read this on the BBC site, I was only 1 at the time so can't remeber it but thought may be of interest to the older readers?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/lancashire/ ... 002370.stm
parceldave wrote:Lloydie wrote:Just read this on the BBC site, I was only 1 at the time so can't remeber it but thought may be of interest to the older readers?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/lancashire/ ... 002370.stm
I think 1977 was worse, i seem to remember me dad telling me .
Richard Head wrote:parceldave wrote:Lloydie wrote:Just read this on the BBC site, I was only 1 at the time so can't remeber it but thought may be of interest to the older readers?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/lancashire/ ... 002370.stm
I think 1977 was worse, i seem to remember me dad telling me .
I dont remeber the 1983 storm but i think it was 1977 when i watched on the prom as the West End pier got wrecked.
Heysham_Shrimp wrote:I dont remeber the 1983 storm but i think it was 1977 when i watched on the prom as the West End pier got wrecked.
DawZi wrote: the difference between west end pier and central Pier the reason the central pier never got that bothered with bad weather is because the central pier had a 1inch gap between each floor board
where as the west end pier was like tongue & groove so the force of the sea took the front of west end pier up like a pack of cards
Wild Bill wrote:Anyone got any pictures of either one as I remember how sad it was when the Central one burned down when I was a kid and was eventually pulled down.
Burnley Shrimp wrote:The power of the sea can be truly awesome.
In 77 we'd gone to Lancaster Uni for a gig. The weather was wild but there was no warning of the destruction that was to follow. Travelling back down the hill to Lancaster Bus Station we found the river Lune had burst it's banks and there was only about 2 feet of the bus station showing above the water line. There followed a wait of several hours for the water to recede when the tide went out and we got back into Morecambe in the early hours to find the West End Pier destroyed and massive damage to the sea front area.
A couple of things still stick in the mind. The twisted sea front railings and a skip full of rubble in the middle of Marine Road. It had apparently been on the Stone Jetty and the sea had washed it about 100 metres in land. Thats several tons of rubble and skip shifted by water!
The worrying thing is that it's inevitably going to happen again sometime.
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