THE HURRICANE -- October 16th 1987
Colin Holden
How did the gas bottles stay connected to the gas pipe? they must weigh about 40 kilo`s.
Colin Holden
Colin Holden
Colin Holden
This Volvo would maybe have been better off left parked in the Avenue
Colin Holden
Colin Holden
A sight which greeted us at Telscombe Cliffs
Colin Holden
Colin Holden
Saltdean Garage, the Skoda Dealership at Telscombe Cliffs where new cars await their first careful owner.
Colin Holden
A walk from Newhaven to Telscombe Cliffs " The day after the storm"
By Colin Holden
The day after the hurricane, as Newhaven seemed to have escaped the worst of the storm and had suffered very little damage, my wife Heather and I decided to take a walk along the cliffs from Newhaven to Telscombe. However when we reached the Rushey Hill Caravan Park it was a different story where none of the caravans appeared to have escaped the fury of the storm.
Further along the clifftop were Houses and Bungalows with varying degrees of damage and it seemed that none of the properties had survived unscathed. We knew the occupants of one of the clifftop properties which had lost its upstairs wall on the cliff side, and they told us that the only thing left in the room was a ladies shoe.
Luckily we had decided to take the camera and now some twenty years on when looking at the photos which we took that day, it is hard to recall the ferocity of the weather which caused so much damage.