The UK's Most Dangerous Place To Buy a House

[@Dahni555]

I'm Norfolk born-inbred. You did a great job of showing our plight. The government and councils don't care. How comes the Dutch can accomplish solutions to such things yet we are incapable?

[@TheDoosh79]

Desire to spend the money, simple as that. Too busy putting it in the their own pockets and giving it to donors, we the public are just an inconvenience to them.

[@srpacific]

Where do the Dutch build houses on cliffs? In places where the sea has been eating away the cliffs for hundreds of years?

[@1SteveSmith]

Do you mean "born- AND- bred" pal?.... that one little word makes all the difference.

[@Dahni555]

@@1SteveSmith nah im from Norfolk, of course im inbred 😜

[@Dahni555]

@@srpacific I was thinking more broadly about their ability to reclaim land from the sea and prevent water ingress across their land mass.

[@stevecoinitin7521]

This guy is a natural! I've no doubt he will appear on TV at some point, if that's what he wants to do. He gives us stories from many places, often like he's almost a local to those places. Love this guy/channel!

[@wanderingturnip]

Hey thanks so much for this! I proper appreciate it

[@wavell14]

Unfortunately he doesn't tick the right boxes as a straight white Englishman

[@BuilderLee72]

Time and Tide wait for no man... Excellent video mate. Stay safe and take care

[@dalebaker5030]

currently waiting for someone on their 10th shot to mention climate change.

[@garyparker5012]

Thanks for coming to my home village and showing all your viewers the plight of hemsby It’s been ongoing for years and is so sad Great video thank you

[@thisperson5294]

In case anyone is wondering - the houses used to be a long way back. People were told they had decades. The problem is Norfolk doesn't have a rock base. That's why there are so many flint covered houses - that was all they had. And Norwich cathedral was built from stone imported from France after the Norman Conquests. If you look at the sea defences in Sheringham, built after a terrible storm in the 19th century, you can see what is needed. Obviously expensive but so much money is being wasted in other areas - the PPI scandals spring to mind.

[@Debbie-henri]

I loved in Norfolk, and well inland too - dig a couple of inches under the topsoil, and it was pure sand as deep as you could go. I think Norfolk is literally an ancient sand bank.

[@Mounhas]

Matter of interest I am an hours walk from some Cornish cliffs. In the last few years I have seen huge sections of the coast disappearing into the sea, taking with them long established footpaths. Erosion of course happens all the time, checkout a video “North Cliffs failure”. Just down the road from me.

[@garyfreeman896]

You hit the nail on the head. They were told they had decades. But the time will come.

[@BHJBHJ424]

Slight correction - it's the PPE scandal. You're spot on with everything else you've said. There is plenty of money swilling about - trouble is it goes in the pockets of too few people

[@TheKARMMARK]

Great comment and very informative!

[@rachelcarmeladams9557]

I have no idea how the bbc or some other channel hasn’t contacted you to become a presenter or to help with documentary’s. You are so likeable and have such a natural and easy way on camera. I feel you really connect and are passionate about everything you see and film. Always such a great channel and a pleasure to watch. Thanks!

[@julianorchard6129]

I agree he even has the correct tone in his voice. Superb presentation it's all there

[@Battlady57]

I agree.he is pleasant and came over very well.he has a natural empathy and is interesting.

[@simonmcowan6874]

Not far from you are submerged beneath the sea, medieval villages, it's been happening for centuries, the reason is that after the ice age the ice melted, the west of the UK lifted and the east dropped, see Harlech castle in west Wales, now many miles from the sea, but used to be supplied directly from the sea, this land tipping into the North sea is still happening. Erosion is just part of it, as it had been when before the North Sea existed, it was a fertile area known today as Dogger Land, see many other posts on this subject. Like what you are doing, great site and your enthusiasm.

[@bid84]

Doggerland, like Disney land for kinky folk

[@GT380man]

Is that where the name “Dogger Bank” comes from?

[@cockshield]

@@GT380man Hit traffic on the dogger bank.

[@simonmcowan6874]

@@GT380man yes

[@terryansell6641]

This is such a excellent Webb site love the drone shots thank you from New Zealand

[@flamecrystal7592]

i bet the council havent reduced the c/tax rate for these ppl

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

They put it up, a few years ago they weren't seafront properties.

[@BuddhaofBlackpool]

They'll have put it up for a better sea view

[@flamecrystal7592]

@@BuddhaofBlackpool 😂🤣

[@lablackzed]

Councils are just a big con no need for them if people just governed themselves.

[@griswald7156]

They need a 30 ft high sea wall there…

[@stevo728822]

The sea defences won't stop it. Rainwater seeps into the loose sand. The extra weight of the water drags the sand down towards the beach. The wooden palisade is desperate but won't keep the weight back. Mobile homes can be easily moved. More dramatic landslips can be seen around Ventnor on the Isle Of Wight.

[@just_meuploading1902]

Well, the sea will undercut the palings, so there's that. Mobile homes.... Yep, nope.

[@josh-q3p]

Just went on goggle earth and slid back the timeline of Happisburgh back to 1999, shows so much that's gone. Great content as always btw.

[@patriciataylor7887]

Will always watch your vlogs, your passion for showing the truth, the reality off current life

[@dcallan812]

I remember the Holbeck Hall, hotel that slipped into the sea at Scarborough. Im up in Saltburn we have an 8 mile long sandy beach, but thankfully a cliff made from rock.

[@judeh2646]

Another wonderful video! You're taking me places I'll probably never be able to visit in my lifetime.

[@wanderingturnip]

Thanks for coming along 😃

[@BRaff-hl4ip]

The power of nature is relentless, both creatively and destructively. You're awesome bringing all this to the people.

[@James-ld2jc]

Good video. Your drone really highlights the amount of erosion. Sadly, the sea will keep washing the cliffs away. The defences are only delaying the inevitable.

[@joesw12]

Thank you for another excellent report. I am looking to buy a house on the North Norfolk coast but I had no idea the extent of the erosion which you have shown, Very many thanks. Looks like I shall have to start looking in Kent.

[@Harry-qy5gn]

Hemsby is not north norfolk 😂😂

[@andylaking]

Thanks

[@Anglianwanderer]

Hi David, thank you for such a powerful video on coastal erosion here in Norfolk. As you were speaking about Hemsby, I was thinking... David, you also need to see Happisburgh, and then a bit later you appeared there too. The video highlighted how serious things are in this part of the world and how devastating the effects of coastal erosion have been for people here. Once again, thank you for the content. I hope you were made to feel very welcome here, and that you will come back and see us again one day.

[@jankarel6454]

It would be easy to look at those houses so close to the cliff edge and ask why the people haven't moved. But if it were my house, they'd have to drag me out as the house slid over the edge. A home is so much more than just bricks and mortar, isn't it? I don't know how you're supposed to go on when you don't just lose your home, but the very ground under your feet.

[@fredblogs]

Get rubber dinghie at Dover, you will be oven everything you want.

[@TheNewSchmoo]

Also if you owned a property close to the cliff it would be unsaleable .

[@Debbie-henri]

​@@TheNewSchmooThey do try. You see a lot of for sale signs along that coast, and they're not given away prices (as one friend discovered when he thought he could get a coastal home cheaply). I do wonder at the person who built that house in 2014. We knew 'decades' beforehand that coastal erosion was speeding up, so why they built there and why the council gave them permission to do so proves that a few people need their heads checking.

[@AlGorithm-n6q]

​@@fredblogsMaybe you should post when you've not been drinking.

[@fredblogs]

@@AlGorithm-n6q And maybe you should refrain from talking out of your rear

[@tommontreal4821]

Thanks!

[@stevetheaker7286]

I have to say i love your videos mate, no bullshit, gaumless faced click bait crap just interesting and well researched content, keep it up pal

[@peacocklava]

Agree and he has class too. Not selling out with poverty porn etc

[@Si-zy2lz]

Hemsby has received a lot of attention recently, but Dunwich must be the posterchild for coastal erosion. Once the seat of the Kingdom of the East Angles, it was one of the largest towns in England listed in the Domesday book. Today, it's a tiny coastal village of less that a couple of hundred people. There was a Roman settlement nearby, but as the coast is eroding at about 1 metre a year, any remains will be a mile into the North Sea. Much of the coastline in the area is effected. Mersea Island in North East Essex was heavily fortified against German invasion in WW2, today most of those emplacements in the area are gone or just rubble on the coastline.

[@christhompson7547]

The dunwich church fell into the sea several decades ago. When I was a small child. I’m now 70. You could hear the church bell ring at low tide. Very eerie.

[@mpat100]

Wow nice beach

[@anneroy4560]

yes, sand not gravel ...

[@justinefleming7756]

Love this guys honesty, empathy and energy.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Those houses used to be hundreds of metres from the sea. It's happening near me, in Watchet, Somerset. A whole length of cliff is eroding. Main road closed, houses and a pub threatened, the town flooding on the recent big tide. You can't defeat nature.

[@Buffalo31]

I grew up in watchet, can you tell me what pub/area is under threat.

[@cockshield]

@@Buffalo31 You watchet you!

[@Buffalo31]

@@cockshield ???

[@threethymes]

Excellent as always. I appreciate the ending poem and the fact that you continue to make videos about things that interest you.

[@Rob1972Gem]

I really feel sorry for the residence of Hemsby, the lack of investment through the years in any coastal defences, not just recently for as far back as you can even remember is disgusting which ever councils are responsible for this area have done nothing for the last 50 years. it has got worse recently, but there has been no investment in saving the cliffs at Hemsby ever until quite recently and that was too little too late, very sad for the residents that live there that were sold a dream, and had it ripped from under their feet I have been holiday with my family at Hemsby for the last 23 years and it is very sad to see that the government I’ve just washed their hands on the residence of this lovely little village. I really don’t know what the solution is I really do fear they’ve left it too late to do anything now to save them houses at the front near where the cliffs are just collapsing into the sea

[@srpacific]

100 years ago there was probably more land but no houses. 200 years ago the same. The only difference in the last 50 years is that people who sold real estate thought they were smarter than nature…

[@gy2gy246]

They need to build something against the cliffs to stop the erosion, maybe concrete walls.

[@HenryTinker]

Yes, you're right about it being too late for a lot of these properties, if not most of them. This needed to have been done at least 20 years previously, and it's shocking that it wasn't. It would take years to install sea defenses that would save it, even if there was money for it. The residents on the cliff edge need to get out while they can because there isn't anything that can be done at this stage. A few planks of wood will do nothing against the sea.

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

I feel very sorry for those residents of Hemsby, who did not know, that their houses were close to the sea ! (LOL ) It has been known for several hundred years that parts of the British coast were eroding. There are historical records of entire towns that no longer exist. Another question entirely is whether that land along that coast should have been allowed to be sold of for housing (including "holiday housing" or short term lets). Obviously some landowners and property developers made huge profits, before they ran away, clutching their pearls. One assumes that local councils granted the requisite land zoning and building permits, to allow those houses to be built there. (More sensibly, councils should have originally demanded a 400 metre, quarter mile buffer zone, be without houses, be planted with hardy trees and bushes as a coastal park). But that was not done, they allowed house construction to go up very close to the coastline. Concrete barriers and large rocks can slow erosion, but only partially. Planting appropriate coastal tolerant plants helps to hold sandy soil together. In tropical climates planting "Mangroves" actually stops erosion and creates more land, as new soil residues build up around their roots. (Mangroves can grow right out of salty sea-water). In a cool climate Temperate zone, far fewer plant varieties especially long lived woody trees and shrubs, can be grown, as they must resist both cold Winter as well as coastal onslaught. However planting wherever possible does help.

[@enchantededition6879]

@@gy2gy246It comes down to cost and management. You do that in one place and it speeds up erosion in another.

[@LloydBillingham]

Similar story all the way up the coast to Bridlington. I was at Kilnsea last weekend and with the spring high tide and on shore wind I was watching the cliff falling into the sea as the waves crashed in, incredible.

[@tank1833]

My grandma used to have a caravan in Hornsea and same problem there, the campsite is right on the edge now and all the caravans across the front have had to be moved to different available slots.

[@EYE-is-a-shining-STAR]

Ace video!! The government don't care about everyday people or their homes.

[@janetpendlebury6808]

Even the Government has no effect on mother nature, the houses are too close to the edge of the cliffs, the real culprit is who allowed the houses to be built on clifftops in the first place?

[@thisperson5294]

It's funny considering Norfolk is so Tory.

[@thisperson5294]

​@@janetpendlebury6808they used to be half a mile back. Look at the defences that n Sheringham.

[@lawrencelimburger9160]

Love the fact you do diverse ish content! Hope you can continue to explore whatever avenue piques your interest!

[@LittleVampette]

Hemsby takes me back to when I was younger and parents took us there and we stayed in one of those chalets

[@susanduncan8705]

Great vlog. You manage to show the erosion, but still very upbeat about our village. Thank you. We look forward to your sunday videos. John and susan.

[@katewolfspirit6722]

Check out the Isle of Wight - plenty of erosion there, sadly.

[@stephnewman1357]

I've been watching a guy who comes back to film every time there's been a storm since the autumn and after the high tides and it's changed so much in such a short amount of time. It's scary!

[@lovetodaylisa3967]

I think it's wonderful that you are creating what your heart desires. Few are so brave to follow

[@Swaggerlot]

Geography, just like the climate, is continually changing. Pretty much the whole of the Norfolk coastline, plus some of Suffolk, is steadily receding through the alluvial soils left by the last ice age. Whole villages have disappeared in the past.

[@edwardbrodie2190]

We have the same issue in some places in New Zealand, its unfortunate but in some places its not feasible to save the houses if there's nothing solid to mount the erosion defences to. Those giant lego blocks they are putting place look great but give it a year or two and a couple of decent storms and the sand will wash out from underneath them and they will fail. Their best bet would be to plant coastal grasses which holds the sand in place and protects it from the wind but it takes years.

[@Toenala]

I walk my dog in Cambois in Northumberland. I've done so with previous dogs for about 15 years in total now. There are a few houses now seriously close to the cliff edge. We've had so much rain and heavy seas this winter it looks like we've lost a couple of metres at least in one winter season. One house is so close to the edge I can't see it last another 5 years. They're old houses been there for decades but with no protection setup to stop the erosion they'll be lost.

[@adamski9370]

Hi Turnip. Big fan. Got an idea for ya, please go for a trip on the Norfolk Broads. Obviously do your usual questioning en route but I think a lot of people would have their eyes opened.(Might be fun watching you trying to park the boat lol) best wishes bro

[@Awatchandy]

As you say it's happening all over but once you see it in person it really hits you. We've houses falling in the sea not far from me in Kent. We all love a trimmed bush as they can get in the way and spoil the view. Both audio & drone were great, no crashing into trees this time either. Keep them coming and stay diverse.

[@mckgregson8883]

Thanks

[@wanderingturnip]

Thanks so much 😀

[@1SteveSmith]

Another first class video, thank you. I'm not trying to be overly political ...but...this is proof that our country is LITERALLY falling apart.

[@AlastairHodgson]

The erosion is not really due to rising sea level, it is simply the result of time. It's the same on the Holderness coast of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire which has one of the fastest eroding coastlines in the world. The whole area is made up of ice age deposits pushed into the coastal area creating an artificial land area. Because it's just mud, clay and sand, it gets eroded very quickly unlike the areas that have stone/rock cliffs and coastlines. There are a whole load of villages on old Roman maps that have just been lost to the sea, some of the sites are now miles out from the land, crazy stuff!

[@norfolknchance.500]

Being a local myself, I have been aware for many years that they were never going to try to save Hemsby, as it would have effects further down the coast at such places as Southwold but as Southwold is a wealthy area, that was never going to happen! Nice content matey! 👍✌️🖖

[@robert15john]

Thanks

[@wanderingturnip]

Legend 👏👏👏

[@susiedominey6272]

Nobody wanted to live in Sandbanks when I was growing up, they said the peninsula would be swallowed by the sea. Look at it now! Loved to death, and hideous looking mansions. Beach still sublime. Loved this video

[@ronfast703]

Good video I enjoy your content. I like that you cover all sorts of different topics. I did notice that the light house wasn’t right on the coast but a ways inland. 👍

[@RandallSlick]

A fascinating part of the country. If you're in the area again, a trip to Dunwich down the coast is worthwhile. Once an important port town, now under the sea. It's an ever-changing coast, but will need expenditure to survive. I don't see our neoliberal consensus providing that in a hurry. Farewell East Anglia.

[@paulatreides0777]

Dunwich the town Lovecraft based his story on 😅.

[@victoriacorcoran1258]

The stress these people feel, trying to sleep at night knowing your property is slowly becoming worthless.

[@PomEllie0806]

God it must be so anxiety inducing having your house to close to the edge. Very difficult to give up that beautiful view in order to save your livelihood. Great video, looking forward to more of the series. Not surprised Tory Britain have cut funding

[@magsk6721]

Beautiful Davey ! I think when people dont live near the coast theyve no idea that it has such an impact .! Its shocking that the residents have to stump up to protect their houses .Council tax isnt being utilised properly IMO .So interesting 👍

[@janetpendlebury6808]

People built homes on the cliff tops, what is shocking is that this was allowed in the first place.

[@lucifermorningstar4606]

In the village of Easington on the east coast, there is a church with a bell. That bell was moved from 1 village to the other over the past 400 years as they disappeared into the North sea.

[@CheshireCat6639]

I have relative's there The Norfolk coastline is beautiful, absolutely discusting that the folk have to fund their own sea erosion defences !..Charity begins at home,makes me 🤬..poor Hemsby..its so lovely🎉 ty for sharing 🎉

[@pokeman747]

This series reminds me of Coast back when Neil Oliver hosted

[@JaneHoward-c3g]

Happisburgh is pronounced "Haze - burra", although I have seen it pronounced Haze -borro". I'm Norfolk born and bred and would use an "a" at the end not an "o". I'm sure fights have started over this!

[@Dahni555]

Hayz-bruh 😀

[@peachyllama722]

I got Happisburgh wrong too. My son has had to study it for his geography GCSE. On the isle of sheppey, kent there was coastal erosion in a part called Warden Point, theres a ww2 concrete lookout that had fallen onto that beach

[@endafinlay8001]

Good video on this part of the coast, unfortunately losing the battle against the sea. My Geography students found it fascinating. You could literally see erosion in action. It is also very important archaeologically; the oldest human footprints outside of Africa were discovered here - over 800,000 years old - along with tools and other artefacts dated 8-900,000 years ago. The eroding cliffs are a disaster for home owners but they have also thought us something about the past. It's small consolation to home owners but it is valuable. FYI Happisburgh is pronounced “Haze-bruh”, it's a common error, a local corrected me many years ago.

[@wideyxyz2271]

Research Doggerland. This has been happening for a long long time...The Dutch know how to deal with it and do so really well.

[@wanderingturnip]

I’ll look into this thanks 👍👍

[@peterswatton7400]

We have the same problem here in parts of New Zealand. The nice beach with gorse growing even looks NZ. I've also been going to Samoa for many years and coastal erosion is eating up foreshore and houses there.

[@petedixon7590]

Very interesting video mate . Didn't realise how buitifull Norfolk coast is . Must try and get to see it before it all washes away

[@ksweet696]

Your poetry recitations add so much to the mood of your videos. I usually get emotional at that part! This is a beautiful and sad tale.

[@GrumpyOldGamer9221]

Good video footage, a topic worth covering too. We went to the isle of wight in 2010 and a car park had lost a chunk to the cliff edge.

[@philoldfield707]

You need to visit the East Coast in Yorkshire Skipsea and surrounding area it's not just Norfolk it's happening all down that coastline

[@sandiemcglynn6360]

1990 Holbeck Hall, Scarborough, fell into the sea. Check out the area, along that coast going South. Sad to see.

[@mickparker3726]

Highcliffe and Barton on Sea exactly the same. Large holiday and caravan parks along cliffs being lost to erosion.

[@Latbirget]

My heart breaks for lovely Hemsby. I walked all the way along that road in 2021 and it's now gone. The black house was on the other side of the road when I was there and it has been moved.

[@sandytw5229]

Beautiful & scary, thank you, loved it 🌊🌊🌊

[@ROC14088]

The government looking after everyone else except their own people. Sick

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

That must be terrifying on a really stormy night.

[@ItMustBeTim-MeTime]

Another great video. Thanks so much for sharing. We love your take on so many interesting topics. Your filming really takes us along for the ride. You’re a legend. Keep em coming 👍

[@alice86142]

I was in Happisburgh a few years ago, funny, I was going to mention it and then you arrived there. Great channel by the way 😊

[@cbrider726]

Your best stream 👍👍👍Looking forwards to more.

[@sarahtaylor2492]

Crying shame that the council and government won’t help Such a beautiful place with beautiful houses, very sad for these people.

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

Nearly all the way around Norfolk is beaches like this. Nice and quiet. Stop telling people!

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

You just told us, thanks!

[@paulatreides0777]

Agreed I live in Norfolk and don’t want people to know about it. Please keep away go to Spain or something.

[@joereedsmith1531]

It would cost a billion pounds to build a breakwater and the houses are not worth a fraction of that so its just bad luck and poor planning. The residents will have to show that Council knew the land was unsuitable due to erosion and should never have been allowed to be built on. These local stop hap measures are a waste of time and money. Water does what it wants.

[@Greenz1100]

This is mind blowing and shocking. To read in the comments that the council lied and said they had decades it totally shocking. Lawyers should get their finger our and start a group action against the council. This is a great video and I love the poems you read, it captures everything. I am praying for the homeowners.

[@Inverse_Midas]

I wonder what the erosion issue has done to the house prices! I bet nobody will move out/sell, as nobody will take the risk to buy such a house that’s hanging close to a cliff.

[@olilyndale]

Dude your channel is exploding! Always brilliant videos and so good to watch this unfold for you :) Smashing it!

[@genuinefreewilly5706]

Brilliant content as usual and gorgeous beaches. In BC Canada there are several creative engineering efforts to mitigate water erosion, floods, earthquakes etc... Its a topic unto itself everywhere and going forward its an expensive proposition

[@malcy34]

I think....the reason the council and government are reluctant to put money into sea defences at Hemsby is because the affected land is not council owned, therefore they don't feel it's their responsibility to provide the money thats needed, The marrams which is the area falling into the sea is private and owned by Geoffrey Watling (Norwich) Ltd as far as i'm aware.....

[@marksargent2440]

My mum showed me an old photograph of my home town bognor regis she said look it used to have sandy beaches now its full of shingle and cobbles how times have changed lovely beach and views sad people's homes are disappearing during to coastal erosion

[@vivmatz1189]

Wow your at my fav place love love norfolk its so very sad I know about it ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Izzi-n5t]

I grew up in the eighties in Folkestone in Kent in a house on the edge of the cliff. The cliff path that went down to the promenade and also to the old railway station and old channel tunnel works eroded very fast, in 1987 you could walk down from the top to the beach in 25 minutes and then after the storm in 1987 and then again in 1989 it eroded within about six years so that you could not even find the way all the way down. Than it was shut off in the 2000s because it was far too dangerous to go anywhere near it. It eroded so fast that every time you walked down it you had to find a new way because the path just disappeared.

[@brianwalsh2419]

Great video. Councils moving houses due to erosion could also be applied to decaying former retail areas also. Space needs to be repurposed as things changed with the sands of time

[@michaelobrien9825]

THE EROSION PRETTY MUCH GOES FROM THERE RIGHT UP TO YORKSHIRE AND BEYOND, TO MY KNOWLEDGE.

[@wanderingturnip]

I’m heading to the Yorkshire coast on Tuesday 👍

[@teanadodgson721]

Look at Skipsea it’s really bad there and quite a few houses are empty now near Skipsea Sands holiday park and some have already been demolished.

[@michaelobrien9825]

@@teanadodgson721 I'M GOING TO THE LOVELY SKIPSEA CARAVAN PARK IN 3 WEEKS TIME, I HOPE THAT ITS STILL GOING TO BE THERE.

[@michaelobrien9825]

@@wanderingturnip IM GOING IN THREE WEEKS TO SKIPSEA CARAVAN PARK.

[@michaelobrien9825]

@@teanadodgson721 JUST BACK FROM SKIPSEA SANDS YESTERDAY WAS THERE LAST YEAR AS WELL, THE EROSION IS FAR WORSE T.

[@MaiDove3]

Erosion is happening for years in Cape Cod too, but not this bad. 🙏🏻✨♥️🇬🇧

[@Fat_Cat_747]

I remember the Viz comic had a spoof advert for Filey Fax, a sort of Filo-Fax full of info about Filey Imagine a holiday in Filey ! Even better than Weston Super Mare !

[@puresalvation2009]

Wandering turnip. You could always do some videos about Britain's disappearing chimneys and the railways of yesterday before Richard Beeching axe the lines. I wonder how many gorgeous looking chimneys of yesteryears industry have been demolished to make way for inferior quality buildings are going to becoming tomorrow's slums. Yes wandering turnip. Do a video on Britain's disappearing Chimneys and railways of yesteryear. Pure.

[@FlatDerrick]

look up Fred Dibnah.

[@susanduncan8705]

Great idea ,it would be amazing to see were the old stations were.

[@ErictheRedCantona]

Brilliant video and topic - really well made and informative.

[@independentpuppy7520]

All along that east coast is getting swallowed by the sea. Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, also Humber and Yorkshire. Lots of lost villages under the sea now. The origional Skegness in Lincs is underwater. All around The Wash is reclaimed land.

[@thestu4602]

The Great Australian Bite has been doing this for years & still is on much bigger scale, its about 500km in length, 50M high and if you zoom in on maps you can see 'fresh' collapses which are still happening today. Check maps its between Eucla & Yalata in South Australia

[@ponypetedm]

great video mate you should have visited a fish and chip shop and done a little review, most of them would love that and it is the seaside afterall, this has been going on for decades i can remember this in the papers when i was a kid and im old.

[@CallumDixon22169]

Wow, I used to stay in that caravan park all the time as a kid - California Cliffs. I even stayed in one of the holiday homes right by the edge. Looks like it has eroded a lot more since then, and this was only 25ish years ago. I'd love to go back someday but I doubt it lives up to the memories 😂

[@2200-au]

Вид на море прекрасен, но все усилия напрасны, жить в такой близости от моря нельзя и к тому же песчаный утёс. Дело времени когда ты спустишься вниз.

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

When the houses were first built, the sea was far away. Their sea view is new.

[@2200-au]

@@InquisitiveBaldMan похоже кто то погружается в пучину, как Атлантида

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

@@2200-au Its a losing battle with the sea. The battle can always be won. Look at the Netherlands. Lots of their land is below the sea!

[@LeahAutumn]

you should come to Withernsea above the Humber, We've had rocks added, but we have lost a lot of coasts on either side of us; it would not surprise me if we ended up on an island in 100 years haha

[@rickbaines8262]

They put the rock armour up just before the last row of chalets on the holiday park went over, if they hadn't the road down to Spurn would have gone shortly after.

[@LeahAutumn]

i still cant believe how close the road is now though thank goodness they added the rocks when they did. @@rickbaines8262

[@bulasty]

Looks like the little bit of the boulders made a huge difference. It would be easy and probably not that expensive to keep on dumping that stuff all over the area to safe the houses

[@Saints_Mariner]

Great content. Like the varied issues you are looking at 👍

[@TheKARMMARK]

I have just subscribed. Great video. The reason I watched your video is I am looking at possibly buying a property in Hemsby.

[@danlowe8684]

The sand cliffs erode from not only from the bottom but from the top, also. The rain runoff creates tiny 'rivers' in the sand as it is absorbed by the soil. These rivers grow and erode the bank under our feet. Then gravity work on it until a weak spot gives way. 17:03 shows what human interventions do. The offshore rock wall has created this large pocket of cliff erosion by concentrating the wave energy in the lowest spot along the wall. Similar things will happen at the lego-type wall being built. The wall sends the waves back at incoming waves and creates turbulence, which halts deposition of new material and instead erodes more of the beach - both on either side of the wall and beneath the wall. It gives the illusion of protection, but the damage is still occurring out of our sight. Soon, the erosion from above meets the saturation below and the cliff will slump away and fall atop the lego wall. And this has little to with sea levels. This area is actually sinking and the hundreds of millions of tons of aggregate mining performed offshore is taking back material to fill the voids left behind. This and the counter-productive revetments built up and down the coast are taking their toll on any hope of recovery via deposition. As another comment stated, there are dozens of villages under the sea.

[@scolexuk]

You should go to Birling Gap in East Sussex, near Beachy Head. Half a row of Georgian townhouses fell into the sea a few years ago