PIER AND BREAKWATER

The Wind & The Waves!!

One of Amble's star attractions is the harbour's South Pier and promenade.

The pier has benefited from costly refurbishment work completed early in 2000 and funded by English Partnerships.

The pier and promenade now provide a safe and scenic walkway with new decking, guard rails, seats and stylish lighting columns.

The coal trade was the main business of the port until 1969, but now Amble is one of few working fishing ports on the Northumberland coast. Fishing, the sea and the harbour continue to play an important part in the life of the town.

Amble has its own RNLI Mersey class lifeboat, 'The Four Boys'. The lifeboat berth costing £350,000 was installed at Radcliffe Quay in 2001.

Warkworth Harbour Commission invested £800,000 in the harbour and pier revitalisation and estuary dredging. Broomhill and Radcliffe Quays have been fully reinstated.