SIR, No doubt many of your readers have seen the metal post sticking out of the shore at Silverdale adjacent to the Cove .
It has been uncovered during the enormous amount of erosion that has taken place during the last few years.
The post consists of inner and outer metal tubes and I suspect that the top section rotated at one time.
Maybe it was a mooring or warning beacon when commercial craft used to visit Silverdale during the 19th century.
I would be interested to have views of other readers who may have old photographs left by their forbears, of commercial shipping visiting Silverdale - who knows, the secret of the post may be revealed!
As a teenager, living in Silverdale at the end of the war, I must have ridden over the site of the post hundreds of times on horses provided by Cloughs Riding School which was based at Knowe Hill Lodge, at the bottom of Shore road.
Peter Waddington
Yealand Conyers
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