There is (or was) a lightship - the audible warning from this we could hear from where we rehearsed. We called the band The Shanbles after this lightship - which was anchored over a sloping offshore sandbank called the Shambles Bank.

The name shambles used to describe this sandbank - comes from a gently sloping tray that butchers used to use to display slaughtered meat on. These places can look a bit messy and perhaps how the word shambles came to mean disordered?