Tag: coast
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Old Saltburn
Not the “modern” town developed by the Quaker industrialist Henry Pease in the late Victorian period but the small fishing hamlet that can be dated to medieval times and beyond. Neolithic artefacts have been found on the beach and there is a Bronze Age burial mound on Cat Nab, just off to the left in…
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Guibal Fan House, Huntcliff Mine
A well-known landmark beside the Cleveland Way, the Guibal Fan House to Huntcliff Ironstone Mine. The drift entrance to the mine was the other side of the Cleveland Railway with ore being hauled up a ramp in wagons and tipped directly into railway trucks. The entrance and mine buildings have been lost to coastal erosion.…
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Saltwick Bay
From the Cleveland Way, Saltwick Bay at low tide looks benign and peaceful. It is a glorious spring day. Families are relaxing on the beach, rockpooling, or just strolling. But the bay has a history of industry and disasters. Alum was quarried at Saltwick Bay in the 17th and 18th centuries. The main quarry for…
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Wreck of a buoy, Cattersty Sands
Cattersty Sands near Skinningrove was selected as the 25th best beach in Britain according to the Telegraph, so take what you want from that. On a wet and very windy Easter Monday, it was absolutely deserted, apart from a handful of dog walkers. This wreck is an old buoy, supposedly washed up in the 1950s…
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Petrified forest, Redcar Sands
Every so often, after a particularly fierce storm, petrified tree stumps appear out of the sands on the beach at Redcar, only to be buried again a few weeks later. The last time was 2013. Last week’s Beast from the East scoured away a vast tract of sand revealing several tree stumps, fallen logs and…
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Cattersty Sands
A sight familiar to walkers on the Cleveland Way which uses the sand for a short while before climbing Cattersty Cliff on its way to Saltburn. I managed to grab this photo before the winter rain set in. Bounded by Jackdaw Crag at its far end and the old jetty and slag cliffs created in…
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Stop that pigeon
Catch the pigeon
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The Stray
Almost 100 years ago this peaceful scene along The Stray between Redcar and Marske was full of military activity. Out at sea ships carried vital supplies up and down the coast in a channel constantly swept clear by minesweepers and protected by cruisers. Above them, airships kept a watch for the wake left by German…
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The Battle of Marske Beach
The English Civil War largely bypassed the Tees valley. The battles at Piercebridge, Yarm and Guisborough are well documented. What isn’t documented well, if at all, is the Battle of Marske Beach as it is known in local tradition. In 1643 Marske is a sleepy fishing village on the North Yorkshire coast. It’s the principle…
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Tràigh na Beirigh
On the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, a two kilometre stretch of golden sands with hardly a footprint on it. ‘S math sin. ‘S math sin is a Gaelic phrase that found its into English. ‘S math sin is pronounced smashing and that exactly what it means.