Work starts to move storm-battered beach huts back into position

The fierce waves at the start of the month left the huts at Felixstowe jumbled together and the promenade deep in sand and shingle.

Beach huts ripped from their sites on Felixstowe seafront (Image: Richard Cornwell)

High-powered sweepers have cleared most of the prom so that it is safe for pedestrians and cyclists to use - although there are sections in Sea Road still needing attention - while a digger was brought in to clear a car park that was inundated by the waves.

The large crane brought to Felixstowe seafront to re-site beach huts jumbled together in recent stormy seas (Image: Archant)

The prom was left up to five inches deep in material - and in some places even more, with sand deep enough to touch the seats of benches lining the route.

Contractors prepare a beach hut moved by stormy seas ready for being lifted back into position (Image: Archant)

Now contractors brought in by East Suffolk Council are putting the beach huts which were moved from their sites in Sea Road and at Manor Terrace back in place.

Anxious moments as a hut is moved to the prom from the car park in Sea Road (Image: Archant)

The workers are lifting the huts onto the prom - in some places over the seafront lights power cable - so their platforms can be levelled and 'shallies' can be repositioned.

A hut alights on the prom to wait for its site to be levelled (Image: Archant)

Deep sand and shingle on Felixstowe prom after the high tides (Image: Richard Cornwell)