The old slip
This slipway was replaced by one facing the other way nowadays. It is at the beginning of the Prom on the Bathing Pool end.
Interesting! I didn t know there used to be a slipway there - do you know when it was replaced? Thanks for posting this pic ::6:
 
After the Ash Wednesday Storm. It was realised that the combination of the shape of the Bathing Pool and the direction of the slip, that storm water was encouraged to spread over that end of the Promenade. There are other albums here. We all took different sights of the event, so together the coverage is quite comprehensive.
 
It took twenty two half sticks of dynamite to remove that slip before the new one was built...
 
I bet Health and Safety wouldn t allow that today! Do you know if experts in dynamite handling were bought in from the quarry to do this or did they draft in someone else to oversee the demolition?
 
There was an employee of Conoley and Co who did that work I believe he was one of the stone masons probably with blasting experience
the sea wall of the old baths at wherrytown were also moved by dynamite....
 
They criss crossed the area with old conveyor belts before detonating, I remember there was an elderly gentleman asleep on a seat there
at the end of South Terrace - it never woke him up !!
 
Poor man does not know if it is Friday or Easter, been working on over-compressed files all day.
 

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PENZANCE - GREAT ASH WEDNESDAY STORM OF MARCH, 1962
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