Tag: coast and sea
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Where rain goes: which sea does your rain end up in?
Every place in Britain, Ireland and the world, followed downhill to the sea. 50% of Great Britain drains to the North Sea, Wales sends none of its rain there, and 24% of the world’s land never reaches the sea at all.
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Drowned and rising: Britain and the world at every sea level
A bathtub model of every sea level from the Ice Age to an ice-free world. In the model Britain becomes an island at −30 m; at +70 m, 33% of the UK is under water.
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The lido boom and bust: how Britain built, closed and saved its open-air pools
In the 1930s Britain built lidos; from the 1970s it closed them; since 2000 some have come back. I built an open register of 73 lidos: 33 of 49 dated openings came in the 1930s, and 14 closed pools have reopened.
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Did the railway invent the seaside?
Britain’s seaside resorts were already growing 1.6% a year before any railway reached them. The line brought a burst in the decade it opened, and did most for resorts that had been slow before.
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Britain’s last line of defence: the pillboxes and stop lines of 1940
I mapped 14,690 wartime defences recorded by Defence of Britain volunteers. The planned German landing beaches had 2.3 times the average density of defence, and 71% of sites with a known condition were still standing.
