Steps of St Marys tower and roof
The Rescue – Shoreham in the 1960’s
Shoreham Cine and Miniature Camera Club
The Shoreham Cine and Miniature Camera Club was started in the late 1950’s by local retailer Paul Plumb. He gathered a group of friends & advertised in the local press to form the cine club. Paul had a shop in Shoreham & was very well known for his enthusiasm about life in general. The response he got was quite amazing, in the region of 60 people were interested in becoming members.
Continue reading “Shoreham Cine and Miniature Camera Club”Nab Tower – Mystery Tower 1
During the First World War, the British Admiralty designed eight towers codenamed M-N that were to be built and positioned in the Straits of Dover to protect allied merchant shipping from German U-boats. Designed by civilian Guy Maunsell, the towers were to be linked together with steel nets and armed with two 4-inch guns with the idea of closing the English Channel to enemy ships.
However, by the end of the war in 1918 only one such tower had been completed, at the then-cost of one million pounds, and was located in Shoreham Harbour, awaiting deployment. While another part-built tower would eventually be dismantled in 1924, there remained the completed 92-foot-tall metal cylinder sitting on a raft of concrete.
In 1920 the completed tower was towed by two paddle-wheel tugs to the Nab rock, a rock in the deep-water approach to the eastern Solent and previously marked by a lightship. Buoyancy was provided by the honeycomb construction of the concrete base, creating 18 watertight compartments. When these were flooded, the structure sank and settled to rest at an angle of 3 degrees from vertical towards the northeast – a characteristic tilt which is obvious to this day.
The story of the construction of the two mystery towers:
Continue reading “Nab Tower – Mystery Tower 1”Marlipins Museum
Widewater and High Path
Paul Plumb’s Cine Films from 1960’s
A River Runs Through our Town (1962)
Shoreham Peeps (1962) Part 1 of 3
Shoreham Peeps (1962) Part 2 of 3
Shoreham Peeps (1962) Part 3 of 3
Let Her Go (1963)
Joseph Ripley – a selection of the photographer’s WW1 images
Compiled and coloured from his own collection of Joseph Ripley’s photographs of soldiers at Shoreham and Southwick during WW1 by historian Neil De Ville.