‘Time and tide wait for no man’ – including those working feverishly to fix the ailing sea wall and slipway in front of our lighthouse.

Chances are the contractors are studying the tide tables more closely than yours truly, but I need to be down there to record what’s going on because this is history, folks, and it’s a real opportunity to witness as-they-happen changes to our sea defences.

Let me explain. I’ve spent the best part of a week, as you do, ploughing through old council minutes in a vain attempt to discover just when The Point car park, as we see it today, was built. You’d think it would be a simple matter but, good grief, the initial discussions went on and on. I’m still searching but it looks like something was finally under way by 1939...

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