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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
Local News
Power StationIt is always a wrench when a familiar landmark that you see every day is wrenched from view. In this case it was the old Power Station chimney that could be seen from Shoreham from the whole of Dolphin Road (and from other areas as well). The metallic-looking chimney of the New Gas Power Station is now appearing above the trees of Shoreham College (viewed from Dolphin Road) as the Power Station nears completion.
Old Power Station (link)
Old Power Station (photograph)Conservation Area
In the last month elegant new lamp posts have appeared in East Street and Brunswick Road in the Shoreham-by-Sea Conservation Area.
There is a small technical snag, inasmuch as they do not work yet. The old ugly concrete lamp posts remain, but they do not work either.
Sea Defences
A 4-year old child was plucked by helicopter from the sea after slipping from the new rock sea defences from Norway.
I wrote to the Shoreham Herald over a year ago warning about the special dangers of these rock groynes from a microalgal and bacterial film that appears when rainwater and seawater mix at the mid-tide level. The rocks that look ostensibly a safe and interesting place to climb have unseen and unrealised dangers. The same dangers apply to all intertidal areas particularly the leeward sides of wooden and concrete groynes and launching stages (e.g. the wooden platform for launching boats at Kingston Beach.)
Please send any comments to:
Andy Horton Glaucus@hotmail.com
1 March
2000
A
couple of Moorhens scrambled about in the muddy field underneath
the Adur Flyover and a Heron patrolled along the drainage streams
on the edge of the grazed fields, looking for frogs. There was no sign
of frog spawn.
29
February 2000
South-westerly
gales and rain sweep the whole of the British Isles. Although the south-east
of England escaped relatively lightly (12 mm of rain), it was extremely
unpleasant to venture out, and the conditions were sufficiently windy to
make cycling impossible for the whole of the morning.
27
February 2000
Gallons
of Frog Spawn laid in the Hamme Road allotments. (58 days after
the start of the Millennium).
Report by Joan Barker
The next Adur Quality of Life meeting is at the Civic Centre on 8 March 2000.
Contact Natalie Brahma-Pearl
at Housing & Environment, Adur District Council first (Tel: 01273 263347).
Previous
Meeting
Vegetated Shingle Project
Officer (Hayley Tuppeny) Tel: 01903 737949
(Mobile:
0976 205339).
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
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Poetry Extract:
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the seaSometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
- Words
of the Week
- Star: Latest Virus Information
coesite
a high-pressure polymorph (crystal form) of silica, silicon dioxide (SiO ). It has essentially the same composition as the minerals cristobalite, keatite, lechatelierite, quartz, and tridymite but a different crystal structure. Because of the very high pressure necessary for its formation, it does not occur naturally in the Earth's crust. Artificially produced in 1953 by the American chemist Loring Coes, Jr., it was discovered in nature in 1960 in the sandstone on the floor of Meteor Crater, near Winslow, Arizona. There coesite was formed from quartz under the high temperature and pressure generated by the large meteorite's impact. It has since been found in the craters of other large meteorites. On theoretical grounds, quartz should change to coesite at depths of 60 to 100 km (40 to 60 miles) below the Earth's surface.
Copyright (c) 1996 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Coesite
was first discovered in the Barringer Meteorite Crater in Arizona. The
origin of the crater was not proved until this mineral was discovered in
1960. the alternative volcanic origin was still possible before this discovery.
Computer Tips
Netscape Composer is a user-friendly program for constructing web pages (this Bulletin was composed on this program). It is not as versatile as Microsoft Front Page Express and Macromedia Dreamweaver. However, it can be quicker for creating links to other pages and this is why I use it.One trick to make the text start at the top is to select Desc. Text in the Paragraph style menu which by default shows Normal. I have not found out why this should work.
Netscape
Composer is prone to crashing when making web pages. Therefore, save your
pages regularly. This fault may be rectified under Windows 98.
Historical Snippets
1821 The permanent
entrance to Shoreham Harbour was completed at its present location. This
was important because the longshore
drift of shingle had caused problems for centuries. In 1832,
1200 ships entered the port. An average of four vessels a year were
built in Shoreham during this decade.
A regular Steam Packet sailed to le Haura and Dieppe in France. A Custom House was constructed in 1830. This building which became the Town Hall up to the 1980's is still standing. (In 1847, nearby Newhaven took over as the cross-channel port of Sussex.)
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