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Sunday 29 July 2018

MIDDLETON BEACH, HARTLEPOOL. 29 JULY 2018.

2-45 pm found Beach Buoy and Two Dogs at Middleton. He parked up near to the RNLI lifeboat station with it's flag flapping in the wind above it's small tidy garden.
It was a couple of hours to high tide. The wind was strong and rain spots punctuated the fresh air.
Sea Birds hung high up in the wind, a drop of their left wing saw thew shot to the North until they straightened up and hoovered in a different part of the Beach.

Middleton Beach was always so flat but Storms earlier in the year have left their calling card, much of the Beach is much lower than it had been in recent years

These wooden posts are normally below sand level; the tide was reclaiming them for the Sea.


A Beach Brick; back in the 1970's many were placed in wire cages and piled up as a form of sea defence.
Years later many of the cages have broken open and at times can leave parts of the Beach looking like a Brick Museum.
The Sand has filled in the letters on this one making it look like Gold Lettering.

"DO ALL THINGS WITH LOVE."
The numbers are from when the Jetty was made with a series of inter-locking shapes; each was numbered.
This modern Jetty replaces an earlier; more solid one, known as the Banjo because of it's shape. It was demolished sometime around the 1990's and the replacement was angled more to the South to widen the entrance to the Port.

BEACH BUOY.