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| IT WAS ALL BECOMING A CLUTTER. |
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| THIS IS A PLATE TO ATTACH A VICE TO THE CLUTTERED WORKBENCH. A VICE THAT WAS LAST USED 31 YEARS AGO BY MY FATHER.....THE PLATE HAD LAID AROUND FOR ALL THAT TIME. |
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| I GAVE THE BOLTS A SQUIRT OF OIL WHILST I MADE AND FITTED THE SHELF BELOW. |
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| A SHELF TO HELP WITH SPACE. |
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| THE VICE WAS THEN FITTED...... COBWEB TOO. |
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| OPPPS! ANOTHER TUB OF SEA GLASS. |
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| A BIT TIDIER. |
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| TRIANGULAR SHAPES. |
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| BLOCKY BITS. |
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| DRIFTWOOD LIPS. |
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| PLANKY BITS. |
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| TIDY. BEACH BUOY. |
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| HARTLEPOOL HEADLAND. |
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| THE RAMP GAVE ACCESS TO THE BEACH. I HAVE LIVED IN HARTLEPOOL ALL MY LIFE, BUT HAD NEVER BEEN ON THIS BEACH! |
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| UP A SAND BANK AND WE GET TO SPION KOP CEMETERY. I HAVE BEEN TO THE CEMETERY MANY TIMES BUT NOT VIA THE BEACH. |
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| I DID SOME RESEARCH INTO CAPTAIN LAWRENCE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AND MADE CONTACT WITH HIS DESENDANTS WHO HAD CONTINUED THE MARITIME TRADITION. THE LAST TWO LINES STATE "AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE SEA." R.I.P. CAPTAIN. |
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| A STONE SEEN AS YOU LEAVE THE CEMETERY FOR THE BEACH. |
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| THE WAY BACK. |
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| STEETLEY PIER WITH A SECTION REMOVED,POSSIBLY TO STOP FISHERMEN USING IT? |
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| AS USUAL HE KNOWS WHEN WE START TO HEAD BACK... IT'S A DRAG. |
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| THE VIEW SOUTH. |
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| "CAN'T WE STAY?" |
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| IN THE DISTANCE A YACHT MAKING USE OF THE STRONG WIND. |
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| THE FINDS. BEACH BUOY. |
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| WE DROVE TO THE NOTRH GARE CAR PARK ... HE WAS KEEN TO BE OUT. |
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| BEACH TO OURSELVES |
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| OVERCAST AND VERY WINDY! |
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| THE STRONG WIND WHIPPED THE TOP OFF THE WAVES. |
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| NORTH SIDE OF THE NORTH GARE LOOKING TOWARDS SEATON CAREW. |
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| THIRSTY WORK |
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| TONIGHTS FINDS BEACH BUOY. |
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| THE LAGOON. |
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| LOTS OF DRIFT WOOD WASHED BY THE RECENT HIGH TIDES AND STRONG WINDS. |
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| A HAPPY DOG! |
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| TODAYS FINDS BEACH BUOY. |
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| THIS OLD FACTORY STANDS ABOVE MIDDLETON BEACH. I MADE AND FITTED THE LADDER AND CAGE AROUND IT 38 YEARS AGO ! |
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| LOOKING SOUTH. |
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| LOOKING NORTH |
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| LOTS OF FLAT GLASS ON THIS BEACH. |
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| LOTS OF BRICKS TOO, FROM ILL FATED SEA DEFENCE PLANS IN THE 1970'S |
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| HARTLEPOOL LIFE BOAT IS BASED AT MIDDLETON. |
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| IT WAS ONLY A DASH ALONG BEACH, I PICKED UP THE ITEMS ABOVE. BEACH BUOY. |
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| IT WAS A LATE AFTERNOON AND VERY WINDY WALK. |
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| A NUMBER OF DAYS OF STRONG WINDS HAD TAKEN AWAY A LOT OF SAND. |
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| WE (THE DOG AND I) SAT FOR A WHILE AND A SAW A SALMON JUMPING UP RIVER. |
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| THE TIDE HAD COME IN AND THIS WAS OUR ROUTE BACK. |
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| HE TOOK A BREATHER. |
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| THE TIDE CONTINUED TO COME IN. |
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| TODAY'S FINDS BEACH BUOY.................. |