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Friday Photo: The shore

March 10, 2017 By John 5 Comments

Here’s another old photo from @oldpicposter capturing a busy shore at the slipway to the old lifeboat station.

Presumably this was the start/end point for pony and trap rides along the beach? I’ve no idea of the date of this photo by the way, I’d guess at around 1900.

I wonder who makes a living (in part at least) from working on the prom nowadays? It’s not like there’s a cafe on the prom. Personal fitness instructors, dog walkers and ice-cream vans spring to mind but nothing else off the top of my head. You?

If you’ve missed seeing a Friday Photo over the last couple of weeks that’s because I’ve been away for a week at half-term, then I had the lurghy for a week and now I’m attempting to get back into things. There’s an email mountain that I don’t relish climbing, so don’t hold your breath for a response!

I missed Storm Doris, though it didn’t miss us. Well, it sort of struck. Some slate and mortar fell from our chimney stack and smashed a tile in half on the way down, leaving a bit of a hole (though with felt underneath thankfully keeping the rain at bay). So, I’ve had a man in (up, actually) to fix that. Oddly, none of the flaunching around the chimney pots is missing so maybe what fell was left up there from a previous repair… bit of a mystery. And a big section of garden fence is now only upright thanks to some overgrown ivy. I’m going to have a bash at replacing that myself.

I’ve seen plenty of houses with ridge and roof tiles missing, but hopefully nobody was affected too badly? Funny how these once in a blue moon weather events seem to be happening a little more frequently than that?

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Comments

  1. Peter Wilson says

    March 15, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    What a super photograph!

    Reply
  2. brian says

    March 16, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    does anyone have a photo of the old jetty,

    Reply
  3. Charles Morris says

    April 2, 2017 at 1:49 am

    Does anyone remember the storm of January 1976 ?

    Reply
    • Peter Wilson says

      April 3, 2017 at 1:44 pm

      Oh yes! Unforgettable. We sheltered downstairs as tiles and chimney pots were blown down.

      Reply
  4. Leigh Marles says

    April 19, 2017 at 4:46 pm

    Nice to be able to see the horizon without the forest of wind turbines obscuring the view.

    Reply

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