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Does anyone know what used to be on new ferry shore?
Theres loads of bricks and building "Foundations" I guess you could call them.

Thanks In Advance

There was a brickworks with a tramway in 19th century, it was also a landfill site.

No the landfills further along the shore than where am talken about a supose i should get a screen shot from google earth

I agree with the first bit though but i also believe there was a war time "Hospital" There

Might take some research to varify it though

That's the new landfill, New Ferry also has a historic landfill site, I think that is part of shorefields, probably where the clay was dug up for the brickworks.

This is where I mean

Your maps quite old so Heres a newwer one for the sake of a Before And After sort of shot

I see what you mean now

My Idea is that the pits where left open from the brickworks clay collecting and then filled in as part of the landfill

No - cancel that - the playing fields behind the sewage works is the brick works, and so that is possibly the old landfill.

I used to play football on the Field behind the sewage works and the one shown on my earlier uploaded image

I've searched high and low for some more info but no where has any.Its like the governments hiding something...

Ok, looking at old maps, the shoreline hasn't been significantly changed suddenly at any point, so this is not reclaimed land like I always thought it was.

Another option is that the council just dumped a load of hardcore on the shoreline to reduce the erosion, which is a significant problem there. This is an exceptionally poor solution. I think new ferry suffers from undercutting, where the base eroded and the land about 20ft back from the edge tries to slip down and under the front edge.

There seems to be loads of documents mentioning erosion management and including new ferry as one area of action, but all the details refer to other areas and ignore new ferry.

I'll get a bigger spade out after and see what I can dig up.

Thanks man

Every time I find something out someone tells me other wise quite confused at the moment.

We all get confused on here at times mate!!
We have a good team of "regulars" who you can ask for certain info, people who are good at locating history, maps, railways, law, cars, medical etc. You will get used to who to ask!
My speciallity is fooking it all up to keep them on their toes!!!

Sounds like me

There is no mistery about the area of shore line at the clay hills. Was always the clay hills back in the 1940s. so no secrete weapons or tunnels. just a load of rubble dumped over the last 60years

Damm I was thinking military hospital=Secret Tunnels but