Tower 63 was one of many towers used by the coastguard, and was situated close to part of the 1920-30's Crumbles shingle extraction operation, before meeting with its destruction.
It was safe from the tides in 1873, and the site today is too far inland, and so was not in danger of becoming unsafe. It is not certain exactly when Tower 63 was demolished or why, but it appears to have been just prior to World War Two, and not destroyed by enemy action as has previously been suggested. A 1927 photograph shows a board outside the tower bearing the name of J.T. Wenham, the man responsible for the destruction of Tower 59 in 1903, and Tower 68 the following year for building.
It is therefore possible that Tower 63 was pulled down for the same purpose before 1939. The situation of 1940 probably prevented any building work as the military took control of the beaches for defence purposes. Some of the rubble was reputedly used in the construction of Friston Airfield. Butts Lane, the tank road built by the Canadian Army in 1942 for access to the downs, appears to have yellow bricks as part of the hardcore under the metalled surface, which may have come from Tower 63.
The only trace of the tower was a block of masonry on the Crumbles, some distance away from the original site, which has now been built upon.
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