I like to ponder on the lives of the three 19th-century families who farmed on the steep slopes above the Boulder Clay Cliffs that encircle the Storm beach formed by the towering waves that roar into the bay during northerly storms. The last family didn’t leave until 1910. The old “Six-Inch” OS maps show eight fields and the cluster of cabins. Over the years I have observed the gradual obliteration of the evidence that such a unique settlement ever existed as the sea below and landslips above continued their inexorable onslaught on the site.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:36:49 +0000