Coastal Erosion

Ulrome, East Yorkshire


Photographs taken by Brian Williams
on 4th April 2010

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 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (1) The address may have a certain appeal...



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (2) ...though the location gives cause for concern.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (3) Whatever its function, the future of this pillar is limited.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (4) Defences to save property, in this case a caravan park, from the eroding power of the waves make up in mass what they may lack in elegance.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (5) A variation of the defence strategy.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (6) Unfortunately, the wall is eventually breached...



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (7) ...and all comes tumbling down.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (8) The cliff continues to retreat.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (9) Where the defences end, the sea scoops out a bay.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (10) Close-up of the topmost glacial deposits that constitute the Holderness terrain.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (11) Even closer.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (12) Sometimes it’s difficult to imagine the destructive force of the sea.



 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (13) All that’s left of the road that ran along the cliffs north of the village of Tunstall to Hilston.
[This and next photograph taken 02/05/10]


 Ulrome, East Yorkshire (14)


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more on erosion of the East Yorkshire coast:
guide to causes and processes
erosion map
Skipsea
Aldbrough
the fort that’s falling into the sea