![]() Walpole Bay Tidal Pool, one of two tidal pools designed by Margate’s borough engineer in 1937, constructed in concrete blocks reinforced by reused iron tram rails, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Structural engineering interest: an ambitious project because of its scale, the weight of each concrete block, and that work needing to be carried out day and night because of the tides * Scale and design: impressive in scale and shape, occupying 4 acres and three sides of a rectangle, the sides 450 feet long diminishing towards the seaward end which was 300 feet long * Social historical interest: provided an improvement to sea bathing at the period of the greatest popularity of the English seaside * Degree of intactness: intact apart from the loss of the two diving boards which do not often survive * Group value: situated quite near the remains of the 1824-6 Clifton Baths (Grade II), an 1935 lift and the other 1937 tidal pool. The second at Walpole Bay still open to the swimmer and what’s more it’s listed. I am latterly reliably informed, that the pool is well used by local aquarists, despite the Local Authority’s prohibitions and ministrations – bravo! Would that it could be open again to the town’s swimmers. What could possibly be a map makers accidental green spots in the vast pool of blue representing the Pacific Ocean, many have never heard of these tiny islands. When the Americans took over, they too dug holes (or rather, used explosives to create holes). Gugeegue or Gugegwe ( / udiu / GOO-jee-goo Marshallese: Kne-jekn-e, keznn 1) is an islet north of Ebeye and is the northernmost point of the concrete causeway connecting the islets between them. When the Japanese were occupying Kwajalein, they dug holes on the ocean side of the island, I guess to make it more difficult for the approaching enemy, but also perhaps to get material to they could expand the island (Kwaj used to be smaller than it is now). a break to do other things (such as spearfishing in the tide pools for lobsters and crabs at nightquite fun). During low tide and with protective boots, it is possible to wade across the reef between Kwajalein and Little Bustard. I was drawn magnetically to this elemental artifice, where untamed waters meet a controlled concrete geometry, waves temptingly lapping the walls. That satellite image was taken during low tide, and those dark spots are tide pools. idea of the tidal pool was good, but implemented But the Kwajalein tidal gauge. – alas no longer the domain of the wild swimmer.Ī large delicious expanse of seawater, now sadly designated as a boating pond. TIDAL Is Offering Three Months Of HiFi Plus Music Streaming For Only 3. ![]() The first tucked in by the prom, a moments walk from the station and overlooked by the imposing Arlington House and the shimmer of the Turner Contemporary
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