Amble, Northumberland - Little Shore Harbour - lovely 1970s Dennis postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Little Shore Harbour, Amble
• Publisher:  Dennis (A.042004L)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
• Notes / condition:  excellent condition

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Amble is a town, civil parish and seaport on the North Sea coast, in Northumberland, England. It lies at the mouth of the River Coquet, and the nearby Coquet Island is clearly visible from its beaches and harbour. The civil parish, which has town status, is called Amble by the Sea, and has a population of 6,044.^[1]

There are two suggested origins of the place-name Amble. Paul Younger of Newcastle University favours a Gaelic origin from ""Am Béal"", meaning ""the river mouth"", while Nottingham University's Institute for Name-Studies quotes (in their Key to English Place Names) an Old English origin of ""Amma's/Anna's bile"", meaning ""Amma's/Anna's headland"".

Amble grew in the nineteenth century as collieries were opened, and its then newly built railway links to the Northumberland coalfields, made it an ideal centre for the transport and export of coal. Other industries, such as ship building and repair on an area known as the Braid, now a greenfield site with a modern marina, and sea fishing, expanded with the growth of the town, although traditional Northumbrian fishing vessels such as cobles have sheltered in the natural harbour for centuries previously. A part of the harbour wall suffered a partial collapse in the late summer of 2008 due to flooding of the River Coquet.

Today, the collieries in Northumberland are all closed (the last, Ellington, closed in 2005), and the railway no longer serves Amble. However, the fishing industry survives, albeit with a somewhat reduced numbers of vessels, as does a small marine industry, mainly concentrated around the construction and repair of yachts and other pleasure craft. A small industrial estate is located to the southwest of the town, whose clients include vehicle repairs and telecommunications companies.

Tourism forms an important sector of the town's economy - part of the harbour has been redeveloped into a marina, and a caravan park called Amble Links, which boasts 5 Star status, guest houses and B&Bs exist to serve visitors to the Northumberland coast.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=northumberland

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted