The lighthouse on Coquet Island is just visible above a swell of the high spring tide which threatened the east coast of England with flooding over the weekend..
I’ve cycled past the narrow gauge railway at Woodhorn Museum near Ashington hundreds of times without my camera, I often wonder if and how I can share its simple charm via my blog and my current themes, to be honest I was out for a walk recently and as I eventually took this photo I thought to myself ‘What’s the Point’ I won’t use it, but hear we are….
Exploring a little further into the streets of Malaga it’s clear to me that some of the old buildings are just putting on a front, this old ‘Facade’ is in need of a lot of support.
We had just stepped outside our hotel after arriving in Malaga, the ornate railings of the old bridge across the River Guadalmedina caught my eye immediately, as I walked closer I was already anticipating a pretty good photo for my rivers theme… Unfortunately for me the Rio was not in full flow, not even in partial flow, as Malaga had not seen rain since late February. Unfortunately again for me the overdue rain arrived the next day!
Three work horses taking a break in Malaga’s busy port, you can ‘Bank’ on these three getting the job done, especially the one nearest the quayside ‘Santander’.
Or in this case putting an old ‘Red’ Pit Wheel in concrete as a lasting monument to a once huge industry in the North East of England. Unfortunately the Pit Wheels are no longer turning and the last of the deep mines have long since closed, coal is still extracted controversially in the area from the large and more economical open cast surface mines. I could have used this post to enter the GTDA’s RED challenge, check out her Blog here….
This is the Sycamore I mentioned in my last post, probably the most famous tree to be found along Hadrian’s Wall. The tree has somehow managed to seed itself at this strategic low point along the wall several hundred years after the Romans decided to leave, the wall itself runs along the Great Whin Sill across Northumberland a natural ridge formed some 295million years before the Romans had arrived. The landscape is already quite hostile but once fortified with a 6m high defensive wall it would I am sure have created a significant deterrent to prevent continued attacks from the Picts in the North.
Many of the war time defensive concrete blocks still remain all along the Northumberland coast, some have been put to good use against costal erosion, these two have been used by someone for a bit of fun. I wonder how many people walk along Bamburgh beach every day and don’t even notice the score on the dice!
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