Whereas the brickwork of the was rendered and then painted red the low light (s.p.b.) was coloured white by the unpainted render. There is no evidence that the high light was lived in although the spiral staircase was lit on each flour by a twelve-pane vertical sash window and the chimney stack retains evidence of […]
Another section of the Humber bank 4(a). Read More »
A very interesting point on the walk along the tidal barrier promenade is encountered near to Immingham Dock. Here are three historic lighthouses, the one above the only one still functioning as such, although I don’t think it’s essential. The one above, the most easterly of the three, was built in 1835 as the ‘low
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Following on from the previous post I also need to point out that although all the 800 or so posts are uploaded to the new website the pictures that went with them are now separate and I have to trawl through to reallocate them as they are not in any order. Consequently I only have
As previously stated, I have been wrestling with the refinements of the new website, and I nearly lost on a ‘submission’ (’60s wrestling on tele. Saturday afternoons). I think I now know how to compose a blog (post) although there are refinements I have yet to try. Also, as previously stated Section 3 of this
On another bitterly cold day with the wind unhindered from the north I walked the again concrete promenade (s.p.b.) from the outflow of Killingholme Beck (near the ships’ jetties) to the western boundary of Immingham Dock complex. All of the level land on the landward side of the flood defence has been reclaimed from the
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Most of the man-made scars on the cliff-face in the coastline north and south of Ravenscar are not the result of the planned gardens of a new resort (s.p.b.s) but a result of the alum open-cast mining along and above the cliffs. Certainly in the 18th and early 19th centuries alum quarrying was a major