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Author Archives: solwayshorewalker
Time-warps and gnomons
It was a fine bright morning, there was still a sprinkling of snow on the fells, but Spring was clearly on its way; I’d spent too much time at my desk writing and longed for the changed perspective of the … Continue reading
Posted in Allonby, Marine Conservation Zone, tidelines
Tagged coastal walking, volunteers
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Lighthouses of the Upper Solway: a guest post by Captain Chris Puxley
For many years, Captain Chris Puxley was Harbourmaster of the Port of Silloth and a ship’s pilot, bringing ships up the Solway’s unpredictable channels from Workington. He has always been interested in the Port’s history and has written a book … Continue reading
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Tagged lighthouses, Silloth
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Snippets 11: big moon, big tides, at Allonby Bay
On Monday night the full moon, its face very slightly squashed, shone down on a stormy Solway Firth. The brown silt-laden waves pounded ashore and shortly after midnight the incoming tide that was battering the sea-defences at Dubmill Point reached … Continue reading
Posted in Allonby, Marine Conservation Zone, Sabellaria, honeycomb worm, Snippets, Spring & Neap Tides
Tagged Sabellaria
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Snippets 10: stone stoops
Gateposts don’t normally attract our attention, so it is easy to miss the fact that many of the ‘posts’ supporting field gates on the Solway Plain are not posts at all, but are the traditional red sandstone pillars – known … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, quarries, sandstone, Snippets, wetlands
Tagged conservation, gateposts, sandstone, Solway, stoops
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tagged Associated British Ports, bathymetry, multibeam sonar, Silloth
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