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Author Archives: solwayshorewalker
The Solway viaduct
(Note: for a longer and fuller account of the design, construction and demolition of the Solway Junction Railway and viaduct, a research project by myself and James Smith and supported with funding from the Solway Wetlands Partnership and the Heritage … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, industrial heritage, peat, bogs and moors, Solway Viaduct & Railway
Tagged James Brunlees, railway, sandstone
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Crossing the Sulewath: A guest post by David Livermore
Two big rivers feed the head of the Solway. The Eden drains all Cumbria from Helvellyn to the Pennines, the Esk harvests a rainy quarter of the Southern Uplands. Rockcliffe Marsh separates their outlets and the OS map shows few … Continue reading
Posted in crossings & waths, Guest Posts
Tagged Solway, Sulewath, waths
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The ‘Sir John Fisher’: a trip in a lifeboat from Workington to Whitehaven
“Ann? Come and stand here.” You don’t argue with John Stobbart, Coxwain of the Sir John Fisher. He’s a tall, imposing man with a gruff voice, and he’s standing at the wheel of Workington’s lifeboat – which is currently suspended … Continue reading
Posted in ports, RNLI, ships
Tagged lifeboats, Whitehaven, Workington
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Allonby Bay MCZ: a ‘slimy dangerous place?’
Allonby Bay, on Cumbria’s Solway coast, recently became a Marine Conservation Zone; there are now 50 MCZs in English and ‘non-devolved’ waters and proposals for more are under consideration. Most people, probably, neither know nor would they care. Here are … Continue reading
Posted in Allonby, Marine Conservation Zone, sea-bed & undersea
Tagged Allonby Bay, conservation, Marine Conservation Zone, Solway, undersea
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Snippets 9: ‘Seeing’ the Solway’s bottom
“Between Solway Buoy and Corner Buoy, it’s a critical region, the region that gives us the most trouble. At Corner Buoy there’s a narrow corridor – that channel is our window [to Silloth], to the East of it are big … Continue reading
Posted in ports, sea-bed & undersea, Snippets
Tagged Associated British Ports, bathymetry, multibeam sonar, Silloth
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Piloting a ship up the Firth to Silloth
You have probably never thought what it would be like to pilot a ship: to be in charge of, say, a cargo vessel with a hold-full of sticky molasses, that is about to enter the narrow dock gates of a … Continue reading
Posted in ports, sea-bed & undersea, ships
Tagged buoys, cargo vessels, ship's pilots, ships, Silloth, Solway
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The Walls of Parton
‘Are you looking for the old port?’ The man seemed to have appeared from nowhere, yet he was tall and strongly built, white hair sticking up straight, not easy to overlook. ‘Port?’ I was bemused – I’d been poking at … Continue reading
Posted in coal, coastal heritage, fossils, industrial heritage, ports, sandstone, slag-banks, stones
Tagged coal, fossil plants, sandstone, ships, Solway
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Freshwater mussels in the West Cumbrian coalfield
The late Norman Hammond once told me that he used to go out in his boat to count the basking sharks when they came into the Solway. One time, he was motoring off Fleswick Bay near Whitehaven during a coal-miners’ … Continue reading
Posted in coal, fossils, industrial heritage, sea-bed & undersea, shells
Tagged Anthracomya, Carbonicola, freshwater mussels, musselbeds
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