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HFF Duncansby Stacks Caithness Scotland 13th September 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:24:03 +0000

A classic sea stack on the northeast coast of Caithness. In fact Duncansby Head is the most northeasterly point on the British mainland.

We enjoyed a fabulous Indian Summer up here in September while the rest of the UK was awash with rain.

HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

HFF Salts Mill Saltaire West Yorkshire 14th April 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:22:58 +0000

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Elsewhere in Salts Mill there was another David Hockney exhibition. This was temporary. & billed as "20 Flowers For 2025 And Some Bigger Pictures". This view is self-explanatory!

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

HBM Grosmont North Yorkshire 19th October 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 06:57:08 +0000

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A classic North Eastern Railway station platform bench at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. It was a bit wet for sitting around.

HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of another week.

HWW Blea Moor North Yorkshire 29th April 2017

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:53:50 +0000

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Going, going.................... within another 200m new-build LNER A1 pacific 60163 Tornado on the North Briton steam railtour will plunge into the darkness of Blea Moor Tunnel under the Yorkshire fells on the Settle & Carlisle Line.

HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

Best seen large!

Lingga North Sumatra Indonesia March 1981

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:41:50 +0000

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Lingga is a Batak village in the Barisan highlands southwest of Medan in North Sumatra. In 1981 families still lived in traditional longhouses but on a second visit in 1993 many seemed to be derelict and others open just for visitors.

HWW Middlesborough North Yorkshire 19th October 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:59:19 +0000

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Dating from 1877 Middlesbrough's North Eastern Railway station was damaged by bombing in 1942 and the remains of its overall roof dismantled in 1954. However there is still some impressive Victorian ironwork around the site. This ornate wall and adjacent awning roof supports are on platform 1.

For most of the station's existence I suspect they were hidden under layers of black dirt and dust caused by air pollution and exhaust from steam engines but in recent years they have cleaned up very nicely.

HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

HFF Saltburn-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire 18th October 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:36:36 +0000

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The view from the top of the Saltburn Cliff Lift, the oldest operating water-balance cliff funicular railway in the UK with Saltburn pier, the beach and the (amazingly blue) North Sea beyond.

The pier opened in 1869 and the funicular in 1884. Unfortunately for us the tramway wasn't working for technical reasons which meant lots of steps down & back up too!

HFF to everybody. Have a great weekend.

HFF Sandsend Whitby North Yorkshire 19th October 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:51:07 +0000

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Sandsend is literally the end of the sand-y beach north of Whitby. The ruined Whitby Abbey is just visible on the clifftop in the distance.

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Teesside North Yorkshire 18th October 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:22:45 +0000

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The view across the river Tees to the Conoco-Philips oil refinery at Seal Sands. Taken from Paddy's Hole on South Gare.

HBM Saltburn-by-the-Sea North Yorkshire 18th October 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:29:01 +0000

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The pier on the North Sea at Saltburn opened in 1869.

HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start to another week.

HFF North Woolwich East London 9th August 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:20:46 +0000

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North Woolwich station opened in 1847 as the southern terminus of the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway from Stratford. The main reason for building the North Woolwich branch was to provide access to the town of Woolwich with it's military arsenal on the south side of the River Thames.

The railway ferry ran from North Woolwich pier seen here until 1908 when the Great Eastern Railway withdrew it in the face of competition from the adjacent municipal free ferry. The pier on the south bank was demolished but that on the north bank was retained and until WW2 was used by the LNER as a calling point for river steamers providing a service to Southend and Margate.

The free ferry still runs and the two vessels seen here are the Ben Woolacott and the Dame Vera Lynn both built by Remontowa shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, to replace the previous fleet in 2019. They have not been without problems!

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

Pancurbatu North Sumatra Indonesia February 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:48:15 +0000

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Walking in the fields off the Berestagi road near Pancurbatu southwest of Medan. We were recce-ing a trail for the Medan House House Harriers in this area.

The atap hut has seen better days. In this view there are ground nuts in the foreground, maize beyond, with a smattering of banana & palm trees. The Barisan mountains are on the skyline to the south.

Medan North Sumatra Indonesia 1st June 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 10:12:09 +0000

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A fairly early Sunday morning drive around the city of Medan. This is Jalan Letjen Suprapto although I notice that the modern spelling (from Google) is different from that on the street sign on the far left.

I worked in the Mobil Oil Indonesia office further back on Jalan Jenderal Sudirman - the former pre-war Shell office.

HWW Fountains Abbey North Yorkshire 13th March 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:42:48 +0000

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Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for 407 years, becoming one of the wealthiest monasteries in England until its dissolution, by order of Henry VIII, in 1539.

HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day!

HFF Fountains Abbey North Yorkshire England 14th March 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:55:18 +0000

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An overview of the Moon Ponds at Studley Royal from the Octagon Tower. The rain had just started!

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HWW Delabole North Cornwall 22nd September 2023

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:40:03 +0000

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When in 1893 the North Cornwall Railway was extended to Wadebridge and beyond, the station here was named Delabole after the nearby Devonian Delabole Slate quarry. The slate was exported via the railway until closure to goods in 1964.

This Southern Railway sign was seen on the slate wall of a house alongside the now closed line.

HWW to everyone. Enjoy your mid-week.

Gunung Sibayak North Sumatra Indonesia 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:16:46 +0000

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We climbed Sibayak volcano a couple of times when we lived in Medan. This this was the first ascent and we met this group of kids on their way down. A photo was called for.

The walk starts in rice padi fields but climbs quite steeply through forest and then onto open rock. The crest is at 2,212 m (7,257 ft) and in the clouds it gets chilly when you're wearing shorts!

HFF Tintagel North Cornwall 22nd September 2023

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:35:01 +0000

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The beautiful North Cornish coast at Tintagel in perfect weather as seen from King Arthur's (?) castle.

HFF to everyone & enjoy the weekend.

Mount Sibayak North Sumatra Indonesia 8th June 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:19:50 +0000

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From one volcano to another!

We are on on Mount Sibayak (Indonesian: Gunung Sibayak) an active Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano peaking at 2,181 m (7,156 ft). The other volcano is Mount Sinabung, about 15km to the southwest, that in 2010 erupted after a 400-year-long hiatus, a blink of an eye in geological time.

Both volcanoes are part of the Barisan Mountain range that runs NW-SE for a 1000 miles along the whole length of Sumatra parallel to the Sumatra Trench & includes 35 active volcanoes.

Although its last eruption was more than a century ago, Sibayak has geothermal activity in the form of steam vents and hot springs on and around the volcano. The vents produce crystalline sulfur, which was being mined on a small scale in 1979 (men carrying sacks down the mountain on their backs). Seepage of sulfurous gases has also caused acidic discolouration of the small crater lake part of which can be seen bottom middle.

HFF Tintagel North Cornwall 22nd September 2023

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:45:24 +0000

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The new English Heritage footbridge over the gorge to Tintagel Castle looking from the castle side. The steps on the left are the original route across and are now used as the exit for those fit enough to use them!

Recent excavations found the remains of structures from the Dark Ages, including well-constructed buildings of relatively large size dated to the 5th and 6th centuries, with pottery and glass finds indicating that the people who lived at Tintagel were of an upper class status, drinking wine imported from the eastern Mediterranean and using food vessels from North Africa and Gaul. In 2017, archaeologists discovered at the castle a 7th century slate window ledge inscribed with a mixture of Latin, Greek, and Celtic words, names, and symbols. Maybe King Arthur & Camelot did exist...

HFF to everyone & have a great weekend.