Fleetwood Mount (Fleetwood)

United Kingdom / England / Fleetwood
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The Mount is a man-made hill on Fleetwood Promenade which overlooks the mouth of the channel that is the nautical access to what used to be one of the major fishing ports in the UK. In the 1960s you could stand on the Mount, and just after high tide, watch a procession of ten or more large trawlers leaving port to fish in Icelandic waters. A similar number would have docked and landed their catch just before high tide. Add to this the smaller inshore boats, and the docks area was a very busy place. Loading and unloading, filleting and cleaning warehouses, ice manufacturing plants to supply fresh ice to keep the fish in good condition, and all the support industries that this entailed. British support for the European Common Fisheries Policy ended all that, and the docks became a wasteland.
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Coordinates:   53°55'33"N   3°0'58"W

Comments

  • Not helped either by the closure of the railway, nor the inclination of successive politicians to neglect the area and it's populace for no good reason other than that they were "North of Watford"
  • More likely losing the COD WAR TO Iceland closed the fisheries.
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