Hartlepool Heugh

[Hadji Kareem]

Has anyone been to the Heugh lately(I hope this is the correct spelling, if not oh bu**er)?
I went yesterday only to see new barriers welded on stopping people getting past the gate. Does anyone know of any reasonable reason as to why? Or is it just a case of "BIG BROTHER" flexing his muscles?

[5150]

Welcome to NESA mate.

It's mentioned here but no info otherwise - http://www.nesa.co.uk/forums/shore-f...nce-heugh.html

[willywetegg]

Hi Hadji and welcome to NESA. There have been railings on there as long as I can remember, all down to safety. I reckon if they were not there then they would probably close the pier to the public, too many claims and not enough money in the world to pay them out mate. Not really a case of big brother, more a case of keeping people safe. Lets face it, if a youngster wandered along and was hurt or washed off by a wave then everyone would be shouting "It should have been made safer" or "Why wasn't there a fence". No matter what they do it will not be right with everyone lol they are on a hiding to nowt.

Jim.

[Hadji Kareem]

Hi Jim,

I fully appreciate the need for the barriers, I was mentioning the replacement of the old with even bigger new ones. It's just a shame to waste the outer half of the heugh. I can see more getting injured tryng to scale these new ones. Being new to fishing the Heugh was one of only three places I know where to go. Now I'm down to two.....
Kev

[5150]

Being new to fishing the Heugh was one of only three places I know where to go. Now I'm down to two.....
Kev

I'm sure some of the lads from south of the Tyne will be able to point you to a few alternative spots.

[paulthespark]

welcome to nesa hadji ,you can still get onto the heugh by climing round the right hand side of the gate as you look out to sea,but be warned if there is a big sea running from a northerly blow stay well clear of the pier, there is also many more marks to fish round the hartlepool area and i think i know most of them, it's no problem for me to show you them just send me a pm.

[mick dunn]

was down today paul saw a couple of lads on-i was near the red light with my dad whilst the kids played on the fish sands.
Mick.

[paulthespark]

had a quick look down the pilot pier my self today mick,nobody fishing on it ,the water was clear though, might get my spinning gear out this weekend

[mick dunn]

Yeah i noticed it was gin clear-looked canny for mackeral but tide was on its way out.