By 1945 there were only fourteen in the harbour and there was little commercial activity . Crown Estates Commissioners closed the harbour in 1947 and it was thereafter used by only a few pleasure craft . The structures were further damaged in the North Sea flood of 1953 . By the late 1970s the north-west corner was breached and the mouth of the harbour was seriously silted up . Funded by various grants , the 69th Gurkha Independent Field Squadron rebuilt the harbour between 1985 and 1989
North Sea flood of 1953
North Sea flood of 1953
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