Category Archives: Allonby

Ship’s-keel scaur: but whose keel?

Posted on October 6, 2015 by solwayshorewalker

On a warm, calm evening in May, at a low Spring tide, Ronnie Porter led me along the shore at Allonby. As we walked, he showed me the various rocky scaurs and boulders, and he told me their names. Near … Continue reading →

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The design of the Solway: an aerial perspective, part 2

Posted on September 7, 2015 by solwayshorewalker

September 2nd, 0845h: Andrew Lysser, pilot, aerial photographer, instructor, and owner of Cumbria Gyroplanes, and I lifted off from the runway at Carlisle airport in a silver-coloured gyroplane. This time I wasn’t nervous, and there was no wall of rain … Continue reading →

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Hobbling through Allonby with an Idle Apprentice

Posted on May 10, 2015 by solwayshorewalker

“Of course there was a reading-room. Where? Where! why, over there. Where was over there? Why, there! Let Mr. Idle carry his eye to that bit of waste ground above high-water mark, where the rank grass and loose stones were … Continue reading →

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The naming of stones

Posted on April 23, 2015 by solwayshorewalker

Nellie and Pintle, High Netherma and Maston; Metalstones, Archie and Popple scaurs. “The names go back a terrible long time,” Ronnie Porter tells me. They’re part of the oral tradition of the shore, and neither Ronnie nor his wife know … Continue reading →

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