Coastal Erosion

Where I'm standing was once land and buried in it was Victorian rubbish. As the sea eroded the land the rubbish fell onto the shore and over the last 150 years shards of broken glass have been polished into 'jewels from the sea'.

This (low quality) autostitched beach photo still shows the shingle that we pick the glass from. There were also three bottle/glassworks down the coast in the town (LH side of pic).

John Candlish opened his bottleworks in 1853 and absorbed the nearby Fenwick's Bottleworks in 1856. In 1874 his factory consisted of seven bottlehouses.

Prior to the Candlish bottleworks there was a small glassworks in the yard of The Canterbury in North Railway St in town. A lot of the Seaham sea washed glass is the waste from these factories.