ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 20-9-2004

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray	B R I G H T O N ' S U N D E R C L I F F W A L K
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Starting at Brighton Marina, the chalk cliffs of the south coast rise up and start their march more than twenty miles eastward as far as Beachy Head. At the foot of these cliffs, for the first two miles to Rottingdean, there is a marvellous path called, for obvious reasons, the Undercliff Walk. It was built in the early 1930s as part of a coastal protection scheme that brought Welsh miners down to Brighton to help with the skilled rock work. Unfortunately, recent storms and coastal erosion have made the cliffs dangerous and the Walk has been closed. Preserving them is made difficult because English Nature has decreed that their fabric cannot be damaged by any work done on them and, as a result, public access is now unlikely for the foreseeable future. This is a great shame, since this walk between cliff and sea provides a wonderful isolation from the urban environment that dominates this part of the south coast. The pictures in this week's set were taken on the Undercliff Walk in 1982 and 2000, before its closure.

Stone steps from the Walk down to the beach in November 2000 (image 1826-9)

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