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The earlier posts regarding the dangerous state of cambois pier, brought back a flood of memories to me, having first started fishing it in the early seventies,( losing my best ever fish there in the mid eighties, bringing it up the side , only to have it drop off the hook onto the foundations, we could see it lying below, a couple of lads scrambled down the nearest ladders, but were too late, a wave broke over the top of the concrete and swept it away. estimates were between 12 -15lb) the pier was in a reasonable state of repair, even to the point of having long seating benches at intervals for walkers and fishermen alike to take a break and to take in the fantastic views of the coastline, over the years the pier fell slowly into a dangerous place to venture,with missing planks and railings,then whole ten foot expanses being removed, with some guys resorting to being tightrope walkers across the joists to get to the other side, then in the early ninetys the turbines arrived changing the access totally.
Off on a tangent,co-inciding with the first appearance of the turbines, a large number of dead seabirds appeared on the beaches by Blyth and Seaton Sluice, and I remember spending a morning with Alan Charlton collecting dead birds for analysis by the RSPB to see if there was any connection with either starvation due to lack of sprats or if was it the effect of the turbines.I don't think there was any conclusive outcome. Here is an old pic of the piers many moons ago.
Off on a tangent,co-inciding with the first appearance of the turbines, a large number of dead seabirds appeared on the beaches by Blyth and Seaton Sluice, and I remember spending a morning with Alan Charlton collecting dead birds for analysis by the RSPB to see if there was any connection with either starvation due to lack of sprats or if was it the effect of the turbines.I don't think there was any conclusive outcome. Here is an old pic of the piers many moons ago.