Frenchman's Bay

The National Trust information board states "This bay gets its name from a French ship which once floundered here. At one time accessible by wooden stairs, the bay was populated with smugglers… the strange object sticking out of the water up the coast [a little north of Frenchman's Bay] is all that remains of a dock gate. It was being towed from the Tyne to the Thames on 19th Obtober 1919 when it went aground and all efforts to salvage it failed".