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Category Archives: fishing
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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Fish traps on the Mawbray shore
It is a low spring tide, chosen especially because it allows us to scan a vast area of the shore. Above Mawbray Banks, pilot Andrew Lysser turns the gyroplane in a circle, its rotors buzzing and clattering, and I lean … Continue reading
Posted in aerial views, archaeology, fishing, stones
Tagged Beauly Firth, fish traps, Mawbray, Severn, Strangford Lough, weirs, yairs
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Snippets 6: ” ‘Tis the voice of the lobster’ I heard him declare…”
Cumbria isn’t just about the National Park and Herdwick sheep, but even on the Solway coast, it sometimes helps to have ‘Lake District’ in your title. The Lake District Coast Aquarium at Maryport is a little gem of an aquarium … Continue reading
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Tagged aquarium, conservation, FLAG, lobster hatchery, lobsters, Maryport, NW IFCA
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‘Signor tuberculato’, PH Gosse and Charles Kingsley
Cockle shells are piled like snow-drifts amongst the trees at the top of the bay; they form banks and ridges along the shore. Balcary Bay, its entrance partly plugged by Heston Island, looks to be a tranquil and sheltered haven, … Continue reading
Posted in fishing, shells
Tagged Allonby Bay, Balcary Bay, Charles Kingsley, cockles, Gosse, mussels, Seaside Pleasures, shells
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Loom-stones and fish-traps
“It’s a loom-stone. A warp-weight.” We were standing by the cars, at the end of a couple of hours’ walking, talking and guddling in the pools near Allonby, and one of the walkers had been showing us some objects that … Continue reading
Posted in coastal heritage, fishing, stones, tidelines
Tagged boundary-stones, fish-trap, gyroplane, loom-stone, Romans, Solway
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