Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Letters Y and Z It doesn’t seem a whole alphabet ago that this challenge started! To round off: Y is for Yacht: Z is for ZigZag like the lines in this observation tower at a local bird reserve: I’ve very much enjoyed this challenge Read more…
The Original Hamburgers Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Events has provided me with another amusing wander down an undiscovered lane on the Information Highway. A kind gentleman who collected all sorts of unusual things once let me loose with my camera in his garden when he saw me peering over his fence. Read more…
This week’s post for Thursday Doors is one I’ve already published in The Wrecks of Skippool Creek. I was reminded of it when we passed the signpost to The Creek yesterday on the way to Fleetwood, which was once a prominent deep sea fishing port but since the decline of Read more…
Boats, ships, craft, tubs, yachts, cruisers, dinghies, barges, canoes, rowers, kayaks, catamarans are all lying around here. Everything except an ark….. though it wouldn’t surprise me if I find one next time. There are big boats and little boats There are new boats which look as though they really can Read more…
In its heyday in the 1600 and 1700’s, Skippool and its sister port of Wardleys (across the creek) handled more cargo than Liverpool. Russian boats brought flax and cotton for the mills, boats from Africa carried guano to be used for fertilizer, and rum, tobacco and sugar came in from Read more…