{"id":1116,"date":"2010-04-01T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2010-04-01T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:08:31","slug":"sea-defences-1950s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/where-is-the-manhood\/history-culture\/sea-defences-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"1950’s Selsey Sea Defences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sea defences have been\u00a0required in the Manhood Peninsula for many years. A great deal of work was needed following a particularly bad storm in December 1951 which wrecked houses\u00a0along the Selsey sea front, and led\u00a0to their subsequent\u00a0demolition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following is a gallery of images courtesy of Royal Haskoning, the Coastal Engineering Consultant for Chichester District,\u00a0showing the coastline and sea defences evolve as a result of storms. Royal Haskoning\u00a0have been involved with coastal mangement in this area for many decades, and the gallery of images catch the flavour of 1950's coastal communities as their sea defences are built.<\/p>\n

See if you can spot familiar places.<\/p>\n

This film clip from the British Pathe\u00a0<\/a>historical archive\u00a0shot in 1959\u00a0shows construction of the new sea walls, and contains interviews with local residents who found themselves in the position of being asked to pay for the defences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sea defences have been\u00a0required in the Manhood Peninsula for many years. A great deal of work was needed following a particularly bad storm in December 1951 which wrecked houses\u00a0along the Selsey sea front, and led\u00a0to their subsequent\u00a0demolition.\u00a0 Following is a gallery of images courtesy of Royal Haskoning, the Coastal Engineering Consultant for Chichester District,\u00a0showing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":285,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1116\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}