A clifftop home in Norfolk on the east coast of England has been demolished due to threats from coastal erosion.
Several wooden properties, built on sand dunes at Hemsby, are perilously close to toppling into the sea.
Residents watched on as their neighbour's house was destroyed as a total of four homes will be demolished today.
The demolished pink house belonged to Sue, who did not wish to give her surname, and it was destroyed because it was too close to the cliff edge.
Staff from the local authority alongside crews from Hemsby Independent Lifeboat Crew and Norfolk Police have been on site, while Hemsby Parish Council is supporting residents who have had to leave their homes.
Local councillor Noel Galer said those impacted will be "trying very hard" to ensure they are looked after.
"Some people literally have a second home which happens to be very close to the beach. Perhaps they knew the risks and understood the risks, accepted the risks.
"Others for various reasons may have found this is the only place they can find to live because of the cost and their circumstances and may not be so aware of what's going on.
"They may have felt there's no way this is ever going to be washed away."
Mr Galer said that continued erosion of the Norfolk coastline could cause a dramatic decline in the local economy, where tourism plays an important role.
"It's the place where everybody's children tend to go to get a holiday job when they are 16 in the summer holidays and when they're at university when they come back."
He added that without tourism, there were very little other employment opportunities in the area.
"About 90% of Hemsby's economy is dependent on their tourism and if you were to lose the next bit of Hemsby... It's going to be very difficult to see how that holiday industry is going to continue to operate if you start chiselling little bits away from it".
Calls for defence against erosion
Mr Galer said that there used to be two further rows of dunes and that there is a footpath on the local map which goes out to sea.
"You look at the map and think: why on earth is there a footpath going out into the ocean? Well, of course, that's simply because of what's disappeared over the last 50 years.
"Unless we have some kind of sea defence protection that presumably will continue, especially with the increased energy and the climate weather system that's hitting our shores."
