CHANNEL SHORE Also by Tom Fort Against the Flow Downstream Under the Weather The Book of Eels The Grass Is Greener The Far from Compleat Angler The A303 First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2015 A CBS COMPANY Copyright © 2015 by Tom Fort This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. The right of Tom Fort to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. All photographs © Jason Hawkes Map © Colin Midson Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 1st Floor 222 Gray’s Inn Road London WC1X 8HB www.simonandschuster.co.uk Simon & Schuster Australia, Sydney Simon & Schuster India, New Delhi A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4711-2972-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4711-2974-2 The author and publishers have made all reasonable efforts to contact copyright-holders for permission, and apologise for any omissions or errors in the form of credits given. Corrections may be made to future printings. Typeset in the UK by M Rules Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY To local historians, past, present and future CONTENTS Preface 1. Dover Port 2. A Mere Ditch 3. Dungie 4. Concrete King 5. Empress of Watering Holes 6. Stand Up for Peacehaven 7. Prawns Ancient and Modern 8. Bugger Bognor? 9. Did Jesus Come to Hayling Island? 10. Wight 11. Peace and Love 12. Savage Coast 13. Black Oil, White Nothe 14. Half-Cock 15. Keeping the Riffraff Out 16. Gulls and Grockles 17. Mine Goot People 18. Coots and Crabs 19. Points, Heads and Tails 20. Hue and Cry 21. Two Looes 22. Skull of Doom 23. The Trail of the Sea Monster 24. Gabbro and Serpentine 25. Lizard Tales 26. Legends of Mount’s Bay 27. A Different Place Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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