Albert. A very nice article. I can only go back 2 generations, so I'm jealous. (All four grandparents were either immigrants or children of immigrants.)
There was terrible flooding at Pett Level, between Lydd and Hastings, in January 2023. We now have a group of landowners - the Future Landscapes Trust - that has been funded to put in 'leaky dams' and ponds and biochar in the soil to stop a recurrence. Some marshland will be restored as part of the process. My maternal ancestors built dikes and drains in Ditmarschen, between Denmark and Germany and, as they had made their own farmland, did not pay rent to a duke or count. They called themselves 'Frei Boer' which means 'free farmer.' Their resulting wealth became an embarrassment to the aristocracy so in 1500 the King of Denmark and an army of high-born thugs burned down the the Frei Boer town of Meldorf, camped in a field before going to burn down the next town, Heide. The farmers waited for high tide, opened the dike, flooded the field and the few survivors of that flood met their fate at the hands of pitchforks and shovels. It was 70 years before the King of Denmark recovered enough to finally put down these troublesome farmers, but in the meantime the Swedes seized the moment and got their freedom.
Good stuff, Craig, and nice to share the memories. Leaky dams, ponds and biochar sounds like a great development. So would be closing the nuke out on the point, before the sea rises up and takes it anyway. Be well, my friend.
It is in the final stages of being decommissioned, but it has been there for quite a few decades and I go in to swim at the other end of Rye Bay, but take care not so swallow any water or let it get up my nostrils but the nuclear industry used to be so sloppy. When I had a macrobiotic restaurant in 1969 we would get laver (nori) from the Irish Sea. Then our supplier stopped sending it to us and it turned out that Sellafield, another nuclear power station, had polluted the Irish Sea with radionucleides and we had been serving radioactive seaweed to our customers. Couldn't have been too bad as I'm still alive and so is our regular customer Yoko
Albert. A very nice article. I can only go back 2 generations, so I'm jealous. (All four grandparents were either immigrants or children of immigrants.)
There was terrible flooding at Pett Level, between Lydd and Hastings, in January 2023. We now have a group of landowners - the Future Landscapes Trust - that has been funded to put in 'leaky dams' and ponds and biochar in the soil to stop a recurrence. Some marshland will be restored as part of the process. My maternal ancestors built dikes and drains in Ditmarschen, between Denmark and Germany and, as they had made their own farmland, did not pay rent to a duke or count. They called themselves 'Frei Boer' which means 'free farmer.' Their resulting wealth became an embarrassment to the aristocracy so in 1500 the King of Denmark and an army of high-born thugs burned down the the Frei Boer town of Meldorf, camped in a field before going to burn down the next town, Heide. The farmers waited for high tide, opened the dike, flooded the field and the few survivors of that flood met their fate at the hands of pitchforks and shovels. It was 70 years before the King of Denmark recovered enough to finally put down these troublesome farmers, but in the meantime the Swedes seized the moment and got their freedom.
Good stuff, Craig, and nice to share the memories. Leaky dams, ponds and biochar sounds like a great development. So would be closing the nuke out on the point, before the sea rises up and takes it anyway. Be well, my friend.
It is in the final stages of being decommissioned, but it has been there for quite a few decades and I go in to swim at the other end of Rye Bay, but take care not so swallow any water or let it get up my nostrils but the nuclear industry used to be so sloppy. When I had a macrobiotic restaurant in 1969 we would get laver (nori) from the Irish Sea. Then our supplier stopped sending it to us and it turned out that Sellafield, another nuclear power station, had polluted the Irish Sea with radionucleides and we had been serving radioactive seaweed to our customers. Couldn't have been too bad as I'm still alive and so is our regular customer Yoko