The Great Storm of 1824

Was talking on a different thread about soil types in the Bournemouth area, which lead me to the excellent Southampton University Geology webpages, which got me thinking about our local Tsunami. So here goes:DOH:

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/chestorm.htm

The third pic down was where and when my daughter and I found that poor womans skeleton, that I mentioned on another thread. Her name was Anne & she was 43.

By the time we got down there, there was loads more debris washed up, looked like 3 whole shipwrecks worth.

Sorry, that was a bit off my own thread.

We fish this stretch of coast on a regular basis, this account shows you how dangerous it can be.

The low cliffs at Seatown show shingle deposits of at least 2 separate deluges, the first one being the storm in the link above, but there was an earlier one that must have done a tremendous amount of damage.

Do have a look around the Southampton Geology Site, some interesting stuff there

 

I think I saw something about this on a tv documentary a while back. Was it the one where huge boulders weighing about a tonne were washed about 100 metres in from the normal tide line?

Drifting off a bit, I used to work in a little fishing village, where they have a pub right on the harbour wall called the Cod & Lobster, or 'The Cod Mk 3' as we liked to call it when we know the holidaymakers were earwigging. Sure enough curiosity would sooner or later make them ask why we call it that. Then we'd explain that it was the third building to stand at this point and carry the name 'Cod and Lobster'. Mk 1 was destroyed in a storm in 1903, Mk 2 went in 1953, and now we're in Mk 3. This tale was especially good if the tide was in and Julie had 'battened down the hatches' (locked the front door and put the storm shutters on the windows), and we could hear/feel the almost subsonic boom of waves hitting the front wall. The holidaymakers invariably looked very worried, much to our amusement. You see, we deliberately always ommitted one vital point in the story. Mk1 and 2 were just typical strength buildings. Mk 3 was built with massive steel girders holding everything together, and an extra thick front wall so is unlikely to be going anywhere anytime soon.

 

Like it Dave

 

And I thought it was bad in early March 2008 when I was staying at the Old Ship Aground at Minehead during that 'storm' that caused me to stay in the bar rather than venture out fishing.

 

Well, they'll have a problem blaming that on "Artificial Global Warming".

 

The bar is always a better bet than fishing in that sort of weather Scrungee.

Marley, 17 people died of exposure when a cargo of whiskey was shipwrecked on the Chesil. Such is the determination of your Weymouth,Bridport & Portland boys, they'd rather drink it & die than leave it on the beach for someone from out of town to find

 

Blimey thats a black market tale if ever there were one ! Why were they looking at the young girls necks though, looking for love bites ? or have i missed something in the age of the poem ?

 

really interesting stuff. just in case it happens again though I am glad I live on a hill!