Storms in 1931 &ndash; 33 swept away 250 m ( 250 yd ) of the island , and the island was breached in a large storm in 1938 and by the North Sea flood of January 1953 , in each case washing the shingle through to the marshes beyond . A wire and brushwood fence erected in the spring of 1953 trapped sand and allowed the breach to heal by August of the same year
North Sea flood of January 1953
North Sea flood of 1953
Scolt Head Island