Category Archives: architecture

What’s a clay dabbin?

Posted on May 5, 2017 by solwayshorewalker

“The first thing people do is stroke the walls – it’s tactile, there’s something about it that makes people want to touch it.” Alex Gibbons On April 28th 2017 the first clay dabbins building to be constructed on the Solway … Continue reading →

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Some things I didn’t know about sand-ripples and the sea

Posted on February 8, 2016 by solwayshorewalker

‘ … the tide holds back from the flat wet sands / That darken from tawny to brown, where little pools / Are stranded like starfish in the rippling ribs’.  Norman Nicholson, The Bow in the Cloud (I am grateful … Continue reading →

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The eagle and the pine-cone: the story of Sarah Losh and Newton Arlosh church

Posted on January 30, 2016 by solwayshorewalker

The newly-restored church of St John the Baptist at Newton Arlosh was consecrated in July 1849: it had previously been a wreck for about 250 years. As John Curwen wrote in 1913 (in a paper that ‘was read on site’), … Continue reading →

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