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Category Archives: salt
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
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Tagged bratt holes, sandstone, Senhouse family
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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
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Tagged Crosscanonby, kinch, saltpans, wooden pipe
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Solway Shore-walker 