Coastguard Cottages

Coastguard Cottages

The Admiralty bought 3 acres of land in the westmost part of Drunken Marsh (6) with access along Manor Way – from the Rev. G.T.C. Barlow and others on 12/6/1882, for £ 300.  An officer’s house, a 7-cottage terrace in the  ‘Lobster Smack’ style, with outbuildings and a stubby observation tower on the sea-wall, were erected and occupied from 24/3/1883 to 1910.   The establishment was: an officer of  the Preventive Service,  a  chief  boatman,  two  commissioned boatmen, four boatmen, and  three  ‘men’.    A bridged footpath led past their flagpost (7), allotments and look-out tower, to the Lobster Smack and access to the ‘sea’.