Such was the force of the waves

pounding in from the Atlantic in the recent gales that hundreds of sizeable pebbles were thrown high over Westward Ho! sea wall to carpet the promenade.

The slipway, too, has been damaged. A hold made part way down to the beach led to its temporary closure.

Meanwhile there is concern again about the Pebble Ridge, particularly the stretch from Sandymere to the coastguard hut. Burrows warden Mr Alisdair Barclay told the Gazette that measures taken there so far did not appear to have overcome the weakness and they had welcomed an opportunity to borrow a bulldozer to push the ridge into better shape at Sandymere. Farther round into the estuary, he reported, the coast near the RNDGC’s eighth green between the coastguard hut and Greysands had been scoured very badly and first aid repairs that had been carried out using wooden baulks were being undermined.

Gazette article dated 18 March 1977