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Rolling in ….. 1 comment
Walking off 2 comments
Still trying to get the hang of this Lightroom , and came up with doing a colorpop I believe it is called ,I took this last year at Whitleybay…a beach that is very much missed by myself for it’s walks and the company I had.
Early yawns at St.Mary’s Lighthouse 4 comments
Eventhough we didn’t get to see the sunrise we hoped for it was worth setting the alarmclock for …
The lighthouse and adjacent keepers’ cottages were built in 1898 by the John Miller company of Tynemouth, using 645 blocks of stone and 750,000 bricks. It was built on the site of an 11th-century monastic chapel, whose monks maintained a lantern on the tower to warn passing ships of the danger of the rocks. The lamp was powered by paraffin, and was not electrified until 1977, St Mary’s was by then the last Trinity House lighthouse lit by oil
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