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Robert Walton

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I take my hat off to built & natural environments, heritage, townscapes & the arts - 'Recorder of the unusual', using #fujifilm #X100VI Follow my contributions to the Missing Places Project at https://historicengland.org.uk/profile/272036/RobertWalton/

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Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 2h

Sewerby Walled Garden looking terrific today...

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 3h

Sad memorial in St John's Churchyard, Sewerby, Bridlington, to a recently-married couple killed in the PIA plane that crashed into a mountainside near Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1992 with the loss of all 167 on board, including 37 Britons - on the first leg of the couple's round-the-world trip.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 4d

The first event of the five-fixture 2025-26 rally season of The Siberian Husky Club of GB takes place here in Broxa Forest in the North York Moors National Park, 18-19 Oct. - & the final event returns here 28 Jan-1 Feb.
No good for Border Terriers... they're in another class of their own!

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 8d

It had been a bank since it was built in 1891. Now redundant as a bank, the listed building is to be converted into hospitality for the ever-popular seaside economy.

This is the Coast @thisisthecoast.co.uk · 8d

Plans to convert Whitby’s former HSBC bank into a restaurant and holiday lets have been given the go-ahead by North Yorkshire Council. https://www.thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-news/whitbys-former-hsbc-to-become-restaurant-and-holiday-lets/

Whitby’s Former HSBC to Become Restaurant and Holiday Lets

Plans to convert Whitby’s former HSBC bank into a restaurant and holiday lets have been given the go-ahead by North Yorkshire Council.

www.thisisthecoast.co.uk

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 8d

Oops! Typo alert... the bombardment was in fact in 1914. My apologies.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 8d

In Scarborough, St James' church was founded as a mission chapel in 1885, becoming a parish church in 1894, designed by notable architects Paley & Austin with a Arts & Crafts oak interior & a rood screen that's a WWI memorial & tribute to those civilians killed in the Scarborough Bombardment, 1916.

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Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 12d

St Andrew's, the grade I parish church in Penrith, was rebuilt in 1720 after a fire destroyed much of the medieval structure. With panelled ceilings to Roman Doric arcades, wide aisles & theatre-like three-sided galleries & wall paintings around the altar, it's a stunningly impressive interior.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 13d

Today, appreciation of modern classicist style #architecture at the Penrith New Squares development, completed 2013, with principal architects Craig Hamilton Architects, classical architecture specialists.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 14d

Storm damage in Barhill Woods, part of Scotland's Dalbeattie Forest, where a mixed plantation of Douglas fir, Scots pine, oak, beech, & silver birch has suffered uprooting & snapping, creating a stark, dystopian landscape.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 15d

In Dalbeattie Forest, walking from Colvend, going past Barean Loch to where logging is taking place.

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pastpapers.bsky.social @pastpapers.bsky.social · 15d

For #LincolnshireDay a C20th coastal postcard selection

B&W card of the pier entrance at Skegness by H Coates

Butlin's Holiday Camp at Skegness with pool and fountain posted in 1965

Sapphire card of the boating lake at Chapel St Leonards with caravan park in the distance

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15d

Scarborough c.1913 (Hulton Archive).

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Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 16d

In the late 18th & early 19th centuries, Gatehouse of Fleet in SW Scotland was a thriving industrial town of cotton mills, shipbuilding, a brewery & its own port - known locally as 'Glasgow of the South'.
It's certainly a hospitable place - a warm welcome in the shops & cafe we visited today.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 16d

In woods beside Cally Lake, Gatehouse of Fleet, the remains of Lady Anne Murray's Charity School, for girls (3-14), established circa 1820 until it's amalgamation with another school (boys) in about 1860. As well as being schooled, the children were attired & shod by a local draper & a clog maker.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 16d

On site this morning at one of the the locations for the filming of The Wickerman (1973), where these cottages (then estate offices) in Gatehouse of Fleet were used as The Green Man pub.

Film study @madbasil.bsky.social

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Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 17d

The remains of Cistercian-founded Sweetheart Abbey (1273) is a dramatic backdrop to the New Abbey Cemetery in SW Scotland.
#cemeteries #graveyards

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 17d

Carlingwark Loch, Castle Douglas, SW Scotland.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 17d

Many happy returns!

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 17d

Early doors in Hills Wood, Dumfries; an invigorating walk amongst atmospheric scenes afforded by damp mist & abundant cobwebs.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 18d

At Southerness Point, in SW Scotland, the 1749 lighthouse served as a beacon for shipping in the Solway Firth until it was decommissioned in the 1930s.
In the 1770s, a model village of coastline cottages was built for miners prospecting for coal, but the venture failed when seams were too thin.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 18d

In Wigtown, SW Scotland, this granite monument marks where, on a day in 1685, two local Covenanter women (aged 18 & 63) were tied to stakes & drowned as the rising tide of the River Bladnoch consumed them.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 19d

In Dalbeattie, a 2019 mural (in b+w) by Paisley artist Mark Worst, commemorates James (Jimmy) Paterson on the wall of his former motor business workshop. He was a lifetime member of Galloway Motorcycle Club & rode in Isle of Man TT races in the early 1950s.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 19d

Dalbeattie, known as the Granite Town of SW Scotland, was established in the 1790s as a planned town with an industry from granite in its local quarries - most buildings are built with it. Nice to see that the town centre retains a predominance of independent shops & has a busy atmosphere.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 19d

Roughfirth Road is the main thoroughfare in Kippford in Scotland.

Robert Walton @waltonbob.bsky.social · 19d

At the famous 'Kippford Leaning Tree' that won Woodland Trust's UK Tree of the Year competition in 2021. The Hawthorn is thought to be 60-100 years old & survives harsh weather on the Solway Firth shoreline here in Scotland.

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