‘Coastguard cottages, huts, stores,
railways, flagpoles, where flags are constantly run up to salute passing
vessels…make a museum of maritime structures and appliances. The whole area
looks like an oversized nursery floor, very untidy at first sight, but having
an underlying pattern’ (J. Piper quoted in exhibition catalogue, John Piper
in Kent and Sussex, Mascalls Gallery, Eastbourne, November 2011, p. 10).
