Photos and occasional pomes

Tag: North Yorkshire

  • Steam

    When you think of a steam engine, what comes to mind? Steam, and a whistle? Glad you said that, because that is precisely what you have here. Another view of the steam shed at Grosmont in the Yorkshire Dales,

  • Beach Walk

    Clean air and warm sun,
    A walk along the tide line.
    Picnic chair for one.

    A slight application of background blur to this image of a family walking the beach at Filey, North Yorkshire. Only the one chair, but I am guessing that she who carries it sits on it.

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  • Pillbox

    Ancient defences
    Defeated by erosion.
    Broken in the sand

    Cayton Bay in North Yorkshire is almost uniquely home to several pill boxes. Some are still on the cliff, some crashed and broken on the sandy beach, and a couple precariously balanced waiting for the last few feet of cliff erosion to send them crashing down. They were built as potential sea defences in WW2, to protect the coast from potential invaders.

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