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Category Archives: Snippets
Snippets 5: Angels, salt and shroud-pins
Pat Bull unlocked a peeling black door and showed me into a small brick-walled room. On the plain wooden table which almost filled the space were small polythene bags and boxes, labelled in black feltpen with numbers and letters. At … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, coastal heritage, industrial heritage, Snippets
Tagged archaeology, grave-stones, Holme Cultram Abbey, saltpans, Solway Wetlands Landscape Partnership
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Snippets 4: First notes – Hadrian’s Wall of Sound, Bowness-on-Solway
At 5.45am the tide was still on the ebb, standing waves (‘reestings’) corrugated the surface of the channel, and the only sound amid the weighty silence of the still air was the trilling of oyster-catchers. I walked, and waited, and … Continue reading
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Tagged haaf-netting, saxophone
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Snippets 3: plastic rubbish and a bathyscope
My new piece of kit as a ‘low-tide guide’ (a delightful title conferred on me recently by BBC Radio4’s Open Country) is a bathyscope; with a bathyscope one can peer beneath the ruffled surface of pools and find out what’s … Continue reading
Posted in conservation, Snippets, tidelines
Tagged bathyscope, marine litter, plastic rubbish
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Snippets 2: A chance encounter, as lifeboat ’47-024′ leaves the sea
The man with the camera seemed to know a bit about lifeboats. We were standing on the dock at Whitehaven harbour, watching as a lifeboat was hoisted out of the water. I hadn’t known that was due to happen: I’d … Continue reading
Posted in ports, RNLI, ships, Snippets
Tagged Port of Workington, ports, RNLI, ships, Whitehaven
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Snippets 1: A different perspective – the film-maker’s view
My Solway Shore Stories deal mainly – but not excusively – with the southern side of the Solway Firth, and several of them are illustrated with aerial photos taken by Simon Ledingham from his gyrocopter. It’s a pleasure, then, to … Continue reading
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Tagged aerial views, coast, films, Solway Firth Partnership, train-spotting
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