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Category Archives: coastal heritage
Saltpans or fish-tanks? Stone basins on a Solway shore
Along the top of the shore between Maryport and its golf club is a high and wide promenade, constructed in the 1930s from an astonishing volume of concrete. At weekends it’s a perfect walkway for families with pushchairs, small hairy … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, coastal heritage, fishing, salt, sandstone
Tagged bratt holes, sandstone, Senhouse family
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The African Steam Ship Company, and the story of a piece of china
The shore at Parton, just North of Whitehaven, is a good place to find tiny sherds of pottery and china. Many of the fragments are of ‘blue and white’, of which some are willow-pattern – lucky finds are glimpses of … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, Found Objects, industrial heritage, ports, ships
Tagged china, Macgregor Laird, pottery sherds, transfer-ware, West Africa trade
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Quicklime: Hot Mix
This blogpost is part of my ‘limestone lockdown’ project. For an Introduction to the project, and a guide to the growing list of related posts, see Limestone in the Lake District: an Introduction – and the ‘categories’ list in the … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, conservation, LIMESTONE, limestone limekilns, quicklime
Tagged clay dabbin, hot lime, lime cycle, mortar, pigments, plaster
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Limestone: quicklime, tubs and ghostly kilns
This blogpost is part of my ‘limestone lockdown’ project. For an Introduction to the project, and a guide to the growing list of related posts, see Limestone in the Lake District: an Introduction – and the ‘categories’ list in the … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, industrial heritage, LIMESTONE, limestone limekilns
Tagged railways, Warthole
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The saltpans at Crosscanonby
The tides and currents have sorted the sizes and colours of the shingle, and here on the upper shore near Crosscanonby I am walking over shapes that are large – and predominantly red: lumps and discs of the New Red … Continue reading
Posted in aerial views, Allonby, coastal heritage, salt
Tagged Crosscanonby, kinch, saltpans, wooden pipe
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The vanishing keel on Ship’s-keel Scaur
Back in 2015 near Dubmill Point on Allonby Bay I finally found what I’d been searching for: the ‘ship’s keel’ for which Ship’s-Keel Scaur is named. Its timbers were as hard as iron, the keel (if that is what it … Continue reading
Posted in Allonby, coastal heritage, industrial archaeology, ships
Tagged shifting sand, shipwrecks
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Port Carlisle: canals and ships and trains
(September 2020: you can now also view two videos about Port Carlisle, made for the launch of my book The Fresh and the Salt. The Story of the Solway: links are on the website.) When the tide is out, Port … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, industrial heritage, ports, ships
Tagged canals, emigration, memories, railway, steamers, wharf
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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 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
The Solway is as smooth as silk, the water slipping in around the embankment that points a stubby finger towards Scotland. We have reached the embankment’s distal end by stepping and teetering along the sloping wall of dressed red sandstone … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, industrial heritage, peat, bogs and moors, Solway Viaduct & Railway
Tagged James Brunlees, railway, sandstone
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Solway Shore-walker 