1962
This shows the original bridge and the width of stream outlet that was built here around 1945 to replace the old timber bridge of 1897. The Ash Wednesday Storm reduced the block walls, but left the reinforced concrete bridge standing. It is one thing to have had a promenade extension, quite another to have had the set of steps down to the edge of the new shore. As to just why the stream outfall was reduced in width beggars belief. It was confirmed not long after the works that it was questionable to have dumped so much shingle here. It was known that the shingle drifts, and it was known that the Jubilee Pool (or, as it was then painted Bathing Pool) had affected the beaches off the Promenade. Why the walled surround to the right was removed, also beggars belief. Strikes me it a case of either someone 'justifying' their position or someone making 'change for change's sake'. Just what was actually wrong with the way it was?
