| This photograph taken about 1930 shows the construction of the undercliff walk. The wooden groynes in the foreground were built soon after the First World War, if not earlier. Parts of the undercliff walk near Black Rock have been finished and can be seen in the far distance, together with the new, concrete blockwork groynes, which replaced the older style wooden groynes. |
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| Another photograph taken soon after the undercliff walk was completed in 1933. Because of the high tide, the flint shingle beach is mostly submerged. |
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| The same view in July 2002. The Marina can be seen in the far distance. The groynes built in the early 1930s have been battered by the sea and have collapsed in many places. Beach levels are quite low, exposing the sea wall to greater wave action. In January 2003 work will begin on demolishing the existing groynes and redistributing shingle that has accumulated against the western groyne at Rottingdean. |
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