Our World By Richard REDCAR’S NEW SEA WALL 2011 Click to Return

The biggest investment in Redcar for 150 years has started along the length of the Esplanade, from the Majuba car park through to Green Lane on the Stray.

The building of the new sea defence at Redcar is uncovering the foundational history of the foreshore, seen in the picture is peat from 30 feet below the foreshore. This contains a Redwood fossilised forest from before the last Ice age which can be found under the Mud Stone which forms the Redcar Rocks known as 'Scars' hence the name Red Scars which became Redcar.

This name change is not proven as a school teacher said the name was derived from Red Carr being the red reeds in the marsh land. So there are two schools of thought although amongst the fishing folk of Redcar which predate the Coatham school teacher written ideas the name Red Scar is the formal thought to the name. Indeed before the 1953 storm which stripped the exposed scars of the top fossilised wood one could stand at Huntcliff and look into the evening setting Sun and see the Redwood scar fingers stretching out to sea.

Redcar Day by Richard Grainger & Redcar Lads by Graeme Miles, Sung by THE Wilson Family.