21st August 2013, 09:20 AM
Weegie Wrote:Ah, Whitby. Fond memories of inspecting a major cliff collapse with Buzz, only to realise that the ground was cracking behind us...as you say, spot-on health and safety!
You'll have missed the foot-wide crack across the lawn at the coastguard station the following year - oddly enough they seemed to have stopped using the place, although wierdly the lawn (and crack) had been immaculately mown, ninja lawnmowing anyone?
By coincidence am there tomorrow on hols - spying on the landslips too, since there's been a frightening lack of professional archaeological input on that front (they weren't consulted except rather retrospectively). The houses (really interesting row of jet-workers cottages) got demolished without any archaeological consultation or recording whatsoever, they trashed the field behind during the works (the one where the footpath runs down from the Abbey carpark - passed that one on to EH), and a chunk of the churchyard was destroyed without record during remedial cliff-top works for the small slip above the kipper house. The church tower's getting rather close to the edge, but in a show of bravado they've had it re-pointed anyway! The big slip near the NW corner of the churchyard (AS archaeology all over that area) never even got a mention in the press
