Tuesday 1 January 2008

predictions for 2008

Happy New Year to you all, it is time to make predictions for 2008 now I am not a soothsayer my background is in science and engineering so I have put on my engineers hat and am predicting cliff collapses.

During WW2 we suffered from lack of maintenance to our cliffs water was allowed to seep through cracks in the surface on the cliff tops and subsequently we had a number of serious cliff collapses in Ramsgate.

Once again there has been a serious lack of maintenance to our cliffs you will note that the same lift is shown in both pictures.
One was taken a few weeks ago and the other in 1947.

2 comments:

  1. Nappy Chew etc.

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  2. I remember many years ago the cliff top area there gained extra fencing and seemed "unsafe" although no one ever told me why. Even when I was a child that lift seemed to be run down and a relic. That was some 20 years ago. I'm no engineer so I couldn't really say but my gut says you are right but the timing might be longer than 2008 - 2009/2010 maybe (we all know the council has no priority for Ramsgate).

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