The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . r you may have totaste can be gathered from the accompanyingprint of the Esplanade during the superb stormof December, 1910 : the finest, by all accounts, andthe most destructive, known on this exposure ofthe coast within living memory ; threateningenough almost to recall the deluge that sentCantref-y-Gwaelod, the Bottom Hundred, underthe sea. The storm began with a stiff , which grew into a seventy-mile an hourgale. With this, and a poor ebb before it, the tidewas at its usual height three hours before little later, and it
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . r you may have totaste can be gathered from the accompanyingprint of the Esplanade during the superb stormof December, 1910 : the finest, by all accounts, andthe most destructive, known on this exposure ofthe coast within living memory ; threateningenough almost to recall the deluge that sentCantref-y-Gwaelod, the Bottom Hundred, underthe sea. The storm began with a stiff , which grew into a seventy-mile an hourgale. With this, and a poor ebb before it, the tidewas at its usual height three hours before little later, and it had begun to handle the greatconcrete blocks of the pavement and the coping ofthe sea-wall like so much brickwork. These hugemissiles were thrown across the road and againstthe railings of the houses, as in some oceanicecstasy and mad bombardment. Basementwindows were smashed, areas filled with gravel,and doors battered in. The shingle lay in someplaces two and three feet deep afterwards on thePromenade. The Hostel and the houses adjoining bore the. i Ms
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