Robert Walton

Filey is the place to be this #Halloween... a beach party, or perhaps a wedding, is so much fun!
[Part of the treasure hunt that's on at the Filey Bird Garden & Animal Park]

Waiting for me to catch up.

Sewerby House, Bridlington dates from 1714 & has been added to & altered in C19 - it's grade I listed; the conservatory, gatehouse, courtyard archway & stable block (now a cafe) are all mid-C19 & each is grade II*.
Well looked after by the local authority & are popular as a recreation destination.

St John the Evangelist, Sewerby, Bridlington, is a 1840s church by one of the greatest church architects of the 19th-century, George Gilbert Scott. In neo-Norman style, it's atypical in Scott's work & one of the last of this style, briefly fashionable at the time. Grade II* listed.

Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Home Farm, Sewerby, Bridlington - 1013625 | Historic England List entry 1013625. Grade Not applicable to this List entry. Scheduled Monument: Anglo-Saxon Cemetery At Home Farm, Sewerby. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

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At Home Farm, Sewerby, near Bridlington, there's an Anglo-Saxon cemetery under the farmyard & grounds. Discovered when a new farmhouse was built in 1959, so excavated then & listed in 1961 as a Scheduled Monument for its protection - another smaller excavation was made in 1974.

Sewerby Walled Garden looking terrific today...

Sad memorial in St John's Churchyard, Sewerby, Bridlington, to a recently-married couple killed in the PIA plane that crashed into a mountainside near Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1992 with the loss of all 167 on board, including 37 Britons - on the first leg of the couple's round-the-world trip.

The first event of the five-fixture 2025-26 rally season of The Siberian Husky Club of GB takes place here in Broxa Forest in the North York Moors National Park, 18-19 Oct. - & the final event returns here 28 Jan-1 Feb.
No good for Border Terriers... they're in another class of their own!

It had been a bank since it was built in 1891. Now redundant as a bank, the listed building is to be converted into hospitality for the ever-popular seaside economy.

Oops! Typo alert... the bombardment was in fact in 1914. My apologies.

In Scarborough, St James' church was founded as a mission chapel in 1885, becoming a parish church in 1894, designed by notable architects Paley & Austin with a Arts & Crafts oak interior & a rood screen that's a WWI memorial & tribute to those civilians killed in the Scarborough Bombardment, 1916.

St Andrew's, the grade I parish church in Penrith, was rebuilt in 1720 after a fire destroyed much of the medieval structure. With panelled ceilings to Roman Doric arcades, wide aisles & theatre-like three-sided galleries & wall paintings around the altar, it's a stunningly impressive interior.

Today, appreciation of modern classicist style #architecture at the Penrith New Squares development, completed 2013, with principal architects Craig Hamilton Architects, classical architecture specialists.

Storm damage in Barhill Woods, part of Scotland's Dalbeattie Forest, where a mixed plantation of Douglas fir, Scots pine, oak, beech, & silver birch has suffered uprooting & snapping, creating a stark, dystopian landscape.

In Dalbeattie Forest, walking from Colvend, going past Barean Loch to where logging is taking place.

Pier Approach, Cleethorpes

B&W card of the pier entrance at Skegness by H Coates

Butlin's Holiday Camp at Skegness with pool and fountain posted in 1965

Sapphire card of the boating lake at Chapel St Leonards with caravan park in the distance

For #LincolnshireDay a C20th coastal postcard selection

Scarborough c.1913 (Hulton Archive).

In the late 18th & early 19th centuries, Gatehouse of Fleet in SW Scotland was a thriving industrial town of cotton mills, shipbuilding, a brewery & its own port - known locally as 'Glasgow of the South'.
It's certainly a hospitable place - a warm welcome in the shops & cafe we visited today.

In woods beside Cally Lake, Gatehouse of Fleet, the remains of Lady Anne Murray's Charity School, for girls (3-14), established circa 1820 until it's amalgamation with another school (boys) in about 1860. As well as being schooled, the children were attired & shod by a local draper & a clog maker.

On site this morning at one of the the locations for the filming of The Wickerman (1973), where these cottages (then estate offices) in Gatehouse of Fleet were used as The Green Man pub.

Film study @madbasil.bsky.social

The remains of Cistercian-founded Sweetheart Abbey (1273) is a dramatic backdrop to the New Abbey Cemetery in SW Scotland.
#cemeteries #graveyards

Carlingwark Loch, Castle Douglas, SW Scotland.

Many happy returns!

Early doors in Hills Wood, Dumfries; an invigorating walk amongst atmospheric scenes afforded by damp mist & abundant cobwebs.

At Southerness Point, in SW Scotland, the 1749 lighthouse served as a beacon for shipping in the Solway Firth until it was decommissioned in the 1930s.
In the 1770s, a model village of coastline cottages was built for miners prospecting for coal, but the venture failed when seams were too thin.

In Wigtown, SW Scotland, this granite monument marks where, on a day in 1685, two local Covenanter women (aged 18 & 63) were tied to stakes & drowned as the rising tide of the River Bladnoch consumed them.

In Dalbeattie, a 2019 mural (in b+w) by Paisley artist Mark Worst, commemorates James (Jimmy) Paterson on the wall of his former motor business workshop. He was a lifetime member of Galloway Motorcycle Club & rode in Isle of Man TT races in the early 1950s.

Dalbeattie, known as the Granite Town of SW Scotland, was established in the 1790s as a planned town with an industry from granite in its local quarries - most buildings are built with it. Nice to see that the town centre retains a predominance of independent shops & has a busy atmosphere.

Roughfirth Road is the main thoroughfare in Kippford in Scotland.