An expansion joint is provided between each pair of rails that is about every six blocks in the top course, as it was considered that the bottom courses, being wholly submerged on one side, would not be affected by temperature variations as much as the top course. deep into the chalk foundation and up to within 1 ft. At intervals of 12 ft., old tram rails are concreted into the walls, running about 5 ft. The walls are in all cases founded on solid chalk and built of interlocking concrete blocks. The construction of the pool is simply the enclosure of the foreshore by two side walls and an end wall, and the natural beach has been utilised as the floor of the pool, the slope giving a graded deepening of the water to a maximum of about 6 ft. This was especially necessary in the case of the Walpole Bay pool, where it was never possible to work on the outer wall more than a few spring tides each month, as the neap tides never leave this position. The work was carried out by day and night to take advantage of every tide. Each concrete block weighed about one ton in weight and had to be fixed into position by hand crane. Its shape and scale can best be appreciated from the top of the cliffs. The wall is two or three feet wide and ranges from two or three feet above the shore at the landward end to about seven feet deep at the seaward end. In shape it forms three sides of a rectangle, the seaward end and two sides, which increase in width towards the landward end where there is no wall, the beach acting as the fourth side. Walpole Bay Tidal Pool covers 4 acres, which is larger than the two largest listed seawater lidos, Penzance and Lymington. There are walls on three sides with the chalk beach used as a floor. It covers an area of 4 acres and is 450ft long, 300ft wide at the seaward end and 550ft wide at the landward end. Inst.C.E using direct labour, at a cost of £7000. It was constructed with modifications by his successor Mr. Borg, M.Inst.C.E., the late borough engineer of Margate. The Walpole Bay Tidal Pool was designed by Mr. It was constructed to make it possible for large numbers of people to bathe in the sea at all states of the tides because the beaches at Margate and Cliftonville sloped gradually, and there was a considerable tidal range so that the low water mark could be as far as 300 yards from the promenade. The Walpole Bay Tidal Pool is Grade ll listed. It is one of two tidal pools constructed in Margate at the same date, the other nearby at Marine Terrace, on Margate Main Sands. The pool was officially declared open at 3.30pm, June 25, 1937. Today (June 25) Walpole Bay Tidal Pool is 80 years old. World Thyroid Day and International Thyroid Awareness Week Thanet community news: QEQM Friends, Town Pride Awards, Schools art festival Mahjong, KCF, South Thanet AGM, Breast Cancer Now and St Augustine’s Week Matthew Munson: Following our passions and stretching our minds Thanet RNLI crews launch to Belgian yacht aground on offshore sandbank St Laurence C of E Junior Academy celebrates Outdoor Classroom Day Kent Wildlife Trust urges people to be aware of damage caused by seal disturbances Police called over concern for injured man in Ramsgate South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay: A frenzied fortnightĬliftonville flat shut down by Kent Police over drug dealing and anti-social behaviour complaints Permission granted for flats conversion of former Sports Direct and USC building in Ramsgateīlue Plaque unveiled after writer and history buff solves mystery of ‘Wilkie Collins cottage’ in BroadstairsĬounty Councillor Karen Constantine: Seeing Red – Water, waste collection and the right to strike
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