A bike ride.
Seaton Carew to Middleton Pier.
Toilets.
Yes but now you need a bank card or app.
And ... No Ladies and Gents.
Just Toilets...
The Brass Monkey Sea Swimmers.
Looking across to Hartlepool Headland at low tide.
Sign for The Smallcrafts Association.
Once known as
The Prince of Wales .
Back along the Pier.
Beach Buoy won't be able to leave it forty years anymore.
It was deserted...
Or maybe not.
Beach Buoy had intended to go to the end of the Pier.
He stopped.
He watched the bird.
It was a Heron.
The setting was everything.
It felt very special.
It was...
It will stay with him forever.
Fisherman on the Pier ...
Dad would have loved living here.
Middleton Beach.
THE
beach.
The older section of wall was one a Blacksmith Shop.
It would later be used to store the rocket apparatus etc.
Used on shipwreck rescue.
Did Beach Buoy's Great Grandfather called in here to collect the equipment as he rushed to the wreck of Trio in 1901?
BEACH BUOY.
