Stories about the Shoreline

"That's the thing about the climate change - the coasts. You see a difference in the coasts. I suppose the big difference I see, if you consider the quays as a part of the coast line, is when you look at the Mall Dock, as we call it, you know the place near the town hall there. Well, when I was a child that was covered in stones and they were covered in seaweed and you couldn't go swimming there or anything."

"As well as that, near it there were slaughterhouses- down where the car park is now, behind the quays- and all the stuff from the slaughterhouses went into the sea, as you know. I remember we'd be out fishing and they'd come out and call 'Stop fishing now.' and then they'd let out all the stuff.

• "The water would turn red. As well as that, on the Mall Dock, near the pier head there wouldn't have been any stones; but it would have been very low down and it was all mud. People used to go there digging for lugs, you know what the fishermen use when they're going fishing. With the changing times - the fishermen would tell you it's because of the change in currents and mud banks - you can even see over across the ferry and over by Piltown the mud banks there are building up and the sand is all shifting from Redbarn and out there by Claycastle and all.

"It's all shifting around and most of it is shifting into town. There's actually too much of it comes into the Mall Dock and the Council have to go and move it out of it. Then, I suppose, the coastline out along- the big difference I can see out there is the fact that if you go out there, you know where the car park is now, say if you were to take a spot from the Butts rifle range to Claycastle and look at the sand dunes there, they're all disappearing.

"Every time we have a storm they're going back. So if you walk along the beach there you can see it. Every time there's a storm or rough tides and that, there's more and more leaving, even though they've put stones all along there and everything. It's doing no good. It's all getting washed away. the walls and were out on the road. I had to get someone out to get them out of the way because it was blocking traffic, and it was a pain. Are storms getting worse?"