Going back to the eighteen hundreds.... Just at the side of where Riverdance was beached, at low tide you can see the wooden remains of another wreck, the Abana. The Abana was sailing from Liverpool to Savello, Florida, when she was caught in a storm in the Irish Sea on 22nd December 1894. She was spotted at 3pm drifting in a northwesterly direction with her sails torn to shreds. The crew mistook Blackpool Tower for a lighthouse and the ship was first spotted floundering at North Pier, and ended up drifting north and was wrecked off Little Bispham at 5pm. Flares were fired and the lifeboat was called out. The alarm was raised by the landlord of the Cleveleys Hotel. Due to the weather conditions, the Blackpool lifeboat Samuel Fletcher had to be taken some 7 miles (11 km) overland to Bispham before it could be launched. The lifeboat had a crew of 16, and the Abana had a crew of 17, all of whom were taken on board along with the ship’s dog, which belonged to Captain Danielson. This meant that the lifeboat grounded on a sandbank whilst returning to shore. Some of the crew members pushed the boat afloat and they managed to reach shore safely. All were taken to the Red Lion Inn to recover from their ordeal. The ship’s bell and dog were given to the landlord of the Cleveleys Hotel, who had raised the alarm. The remains of the Abana can still be seen at low tide at Little Bispham and the ship’s bell hangs in St. Andrew’s Church in Cleveleys.

In 1820 because of sea erosion the old Ross Hall and its accompanying building had to be abandoned. A new Ross Hall was built further inland which is now part of Rossall School
The Cleveleys Coastline was wider in the eighteen hundreds. Spring tides before sea defences were built had speeded erosion which was quite alarming to the authorities and to the estate companies who were losing land. Some dwellings, like Fanny Hall, crumbled and fell. The Coast Erosion Committe discovered the loss to be three yards every year. In 1901, in spite of a notice displayed by the Fylde Rural District Council, 6-12 carts were taking materials daily from the shore in front of Cleveleys Hydro (the Kingsway area to the side of the pitch and putt behind Princes Promenade). Sand, gravel and boulders were moved, which were the natural sea defence. On April 18th 1905 a notice by the Board of Trade was printed in the London Gazette prohibiting this removal. Cleveleys Hydro was fully licensed, heated throughout , with hydropathic baths, an 18 hole golf course, tennis courts and a resident orchestra. It held banquets, dance and whist drives.