https://www.ipernity.com/tag/earthwatcher/keyword/95754 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/200/FE/AE/1683198.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/tag/earthwatcher/keyword/95754 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:06:23 +0000 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:06:23 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39034446 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-09,doc-39034446 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 08:16:29 +0000 2014-04-05T10:01:32+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39034446"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/46/39034446.58ca3f7d.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> A view SSW over Loch Garry, Glengarry Forest and the mountains beyond, of which Meall na h-Eilde is the neat pyramid-shaped peak just left of the centre skyline.<br /> <br /> Taken from the viewpoint on the A87 at grid ref. NH 2112 0286.</div> Loch Garry and Glengarry Forest <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39034446"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/46/39034446.58ca3f7d.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> A view SSW over Loch Garry, Glengarry Forest and the mountains beyond, of which Meall na h-Eilde is the neat pyramid-shaped peak just left of the centre skyline.<br /> <br /> Taken from the viewpoint on the A87 at grid ref. NH 2112 0286.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024492 tag:ipernity.com,2015-04-07,doc-39024492 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:56:56 +0000 2014-03-09T15:25:22+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024492"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/92/39024492.4d65e6f9.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guess Where UK group.<br /> This is the River Idle taken from Chain Bridge Lane, near the village of Lound. The view is northwards towards Home Farm, the prominent set of buildings in the middle distance. <br /> <br /> The area is surrounded by both active and disused sand and gravel extraction operations. The disused, flooded workings are now wetlands forming the Idle Valley Nature Reserve.</div> River Idle near Lound, Nottinghamshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024492"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/92/39024492.4d65e6f9.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guess Where UK group.<br /> This is the River Idle taken from Chain Bridge Lane, near the village of Lound. The view is northwards towards Home Farm, the prominent set of buildings in the middle distance. <br /> <br /> The area is surrounded by both active and disused sand and gravel extraction operations. The disused, flooded workings are now wetlands forming the Idle Valley Nature Reserve.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024460 tag:ipernity.com,2015-05-02,doc-39024460 Sat, 02 May 2015 09:35:11 +0000 2015-04-30T13:16:48+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024460"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/60/39024460.21c237ff.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> Managed heather moorland stripes above Glossop, Derbyshire, viewed from the A57 Snake Pass road at Hurst Brook bridge. <br /> <br /> Dinting railway viaduct is visible in the distance.</div> Moorland stripes above Glossop <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024460"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/60/39024460.21c237ff.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> Managed heather moorland stripes above Glossop, Derbyshire, viewed from the A57 Snake Pass road at Hurst Brook bridge. <br /> <br /> Dinting railway viaduct is visible in the distance.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024462 tag:ipernity.com,2015-04-17,doc-39024462 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:36:08 +0000 2004-01-24T11:02:38+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024462"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/62/39024462.c19f32ce.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the GuesswhereUK Group.<br /> <br /> This is part of Dirtlow Rake lead vein 'openworks' where the vein has been excavated from the surface leaving a slot with walls of limestone on each side. In this particular location the vein splits into a complex of several branching and rejoining sub-parallel veins formed along a strike-slip duplex fault structure. Most of the movement along the faults was near-horizontal as evidenced by horizontal slickensides (groove marks) along the vein walls.<br /> <br /> This part of the vein has been worked since medieval times. In the floor of the opencut are numerous old shafts which accessed the deeper parts of the vein mostly from the 16th and 17th century onwards.</div> Dirtlow Rake openworks, near Castleton, Derbyshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024462"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/62/39024462.c19f32ce.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the GuesswhereUK Group.<br /> <br /> This is part of Dirtlow Rake lead vein 'openworks' where the vein has been excavated from the surface leaving a slot with walls of limestone on each side. In this particular location the vein splits into a complex of several branching and rejoining sub-parallel veins formed along a strike-slip duplex fault structure. Most of the movement along the faults was near-horizontal as evidenced by horizontal slickensides (groove marks) along the vein walls.<br /> <br /> This part of the vein has been worked since medieval times. In the floor of the opencut are numerous old shafts which accessed the deeper parts of the vein mostly from the 16th and 17th century onwards.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024472 tag:ipernity.com,2015-04-14,doc-39024472 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 04:10:37 +0000 2014-06-13T20:08:48+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024472"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/72/39024472.cef152a7.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="136" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the GuesswhereUK group.<br /> <br /> This is a view from Arnside promenade looking north-westwards over the Kent estuary towards Limegarth Wood and Sunnyside Farm (centre right).<br /> <br /> Taken just a few days before the summer solstice, the sun sets a long way round to the north-west.</div> Sunset over the Kent Estuary, Cumbria <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024472"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/72/39024472.cef152a7.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="136" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the GuesswhereUK group.<br /> <br /> This is a view from Arnside promenade looking north-westwards over the Kent estuary towards Limegarth Wood and Sunnyside Farm (centre right).<br /> <br /> Taken just a few days before the summer solstice, the sun sets a long way round to the north-west.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024474 tag:ipernity.com,2015-04-12,doc-39024474 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:26:07 +0000 2015-04-09T13:36:01+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024474"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/74/39024474.e433bc87.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">The mining village of Arkwright Town near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, experienced serious methane emissions from the ground following closure of the Arkwright Colliery drift mine in 1988. As a result, the entire community was moved into brand new properties, constructed some 200 - 600 metres away. The original village was then demolished and obliterated as part of an opencast coal mining operation in the 1990s designed to remove the old deep mine workings and associated strata which were the source of the methane emissions.<br /> <br /> This methane vent pipe is one of a pair at this location situated on the restoration backfill of the Arkwright opencast coal mine in order to safely control residual methane emissions from the backfill and surrounding strata.</div> Methane vent pipe near Arkwright Town, Derbyshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024474"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/74/39024474.e433bc87.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">The mining village of Arkwright Town near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, experienced serious methane emissions from the ground following closure of the Arkwright Colliery drift mine in 1988. As a result, the entire community was moved into brand new properties, constructed some 200 - 600 metres away. The original village was then demolished and obliterated as part of an opencast coal mining operation in the 1990s designed to remove the old deep mine workings and associated strata which were the source of the methane emissions.<br /> <br /> This methane vent pipe is one of a pair at this location situated on the restoration backfill of the Arkwright opencast coal mine in order to safely control residual methane emissions from the backfill and surrounding strata.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024464 tag:ipernity.com,2015-04-16,doc-39024464 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:09:00 +0000 2013-04-27T10:56:49+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024464"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/64/39024464.c8b94409.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This is the Near Hearkening Rock, an overhanging outcrop of Upper Devonian Quartz Conglomerate, in High Meadow Woods, an outlier of the Forest of Dean.<br /> <br /> It is so called because you are supposed to be able hear distant sounds (such as conversations or the horse hooves of an approaching army) which are amplified by the shape of the rock outcrop.</div> Near Hearkening Rock, Monmouthshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024464"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/64/39024464.c8b94409.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This is the Near Hearkening Rock, an overhanging outcrop of Upper Devonian Quartz Conglomerate, in High Meadow Woods, an outlier of the Forest of Dean.<br /> <br /> It is so called because you are supposed to be able hear distant sounds (such as conversations or the horse hooves of an approaching army) which are amplified by the shape of the rock outcrop.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024466 tag:ipernity.com,2015-04-16,doc-39024466 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:08:59 +0000 2013-09-27T11:24:23+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024466"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/66/39024466.481b0e51.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the GuesswhereUK group. Photo has been replaced with slightly more extensive, uncropped version.<br /> <br /> This is the back-wall of the abandoned 'slate' quarry, the flooded section of which is now the Blue Lagoon at Abereiddi bay, Pembrokeshire. <br /> <br /> The rock is not true slate (a metamorphic rock) but thinly bedded black shales (Caerhys Shale) which span the Llanvirnian-Llandeilian junction in the Ordovician. Certain bedding planes towards the right-hand side are particularly rich in the graptolite zone fossil <i>Didymograptus murchisoni</i>.<br /> <br /> Thousands of people each year see this, either walking past it or attending diving or coasteering (horrible word!) events in the Blue Lagoon.</div> Abandoned &#039;slate&#039; quarry, Abereiddi Bay, Pembrokeshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024466"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/66/39024466.481b0e51.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the GuesswhereUK group. Photo has been replaced with slightly more extensive, uncropped version.<br /> <br /> This is the back-wall of the abandoned 'slate' quarry, the flooded section of which is now the Blue Lagoon at Abereiddi bay, Pembrokeshire. <br /> <br /> The rock is not true slate (a metamorphic rock) but thinly bedded black shales (Caerhys Shale) which span the Llanvirnian-Llandeilian junction in the Ordovician. Certain bedding planes towards the right-hand side are particularly rich in the graptolite zone fossil <i>Didymograptus murchisoni</i>.<br /> <br /> Thousands of people each year see this, either walking past it or attending diving or coasteering (horrible word!) events in the Blue Lagoon.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024456 tag:ipernity.com,2015-05-05,doc-39024456 Tue, 05 May 2015 08:33:24 +0000 2015-04-30T13:51:02+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024456"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/56/39024456.33e43eb8.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> The steep eastern face of Win Hill and the groove of Parkin Clough viewed from New Road above Bamford, Derbyshire.</div> Win Hill and Parkin Clough <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024456"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/56/39024456.33e43eb8.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> The steep eastern face of Win Hill and the groove of Parkin Clough viewed from New Road above Bamford, Derbyshire.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024420 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-05,doc-39024420 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 21:00:54 +0000 2014-03-24T14:08:48+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024420"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/20/39024420.95cb6c96.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Felixstowe Container Terminal, Suffolk, England.</div> Colours, textures and shapes at Felixstowe <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024420"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/20/39024420.95cb6c96.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Felixstowe Container Terminal, Suffolk, England.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024422 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-04,doc-39024422 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:22:34 +0000 2014-04-05T14:22:25+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024422"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/22/39024422.31feb5de.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="161" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This view of the former ironstone mining village of Inverarish was taken from the deck of the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry MV 'Loch Striven', en-route to Raasay from Sconser on Skye.</div> Inverarish on the island of Raasay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024422"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/22/39024422.31feb5de.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="161" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This view of the former ironstone mining village of Inverarish was taken from the deck of the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry MV 'Loch Striven', en-route to Raasay from Sconser on Skye.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024410 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-10,doc-39024410 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:45:16 +0000 2014-06-16T10:52:48+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024410"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/10/39024410.434aa985.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK Group.<br /> The Gait Barrows NNR near Silverdale, Lancashire, includes areas of low-elevation limestone pavement such as seen here and is home to a rich variety of plants, birds and animal life, including some very rare species. <br /> <br /> Natural England leaflet here:<br /> <a href="http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5368002631434240" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5368002631...</a><br /> <br /> From the NNR leaflet:<br /> <i>"Lying at the heart of the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve is one of Britain’s most important limestone landscapes. The NNR contains an intricate mosaic of limestone habitats that are home to a rich variety of exciting and often rare wildlife. From open rock pavements to damp fen; from deep yew forest to the tranquillity of Hawes Water, there is much to see on a visit to Gait Barrows."</i><br /> <br /> A beautiful place, but it is also home to deer ticks and I was unfortunate enough to be bitten during my visit and subsequently contracted Lyme disease as a result. Fortunately, early treatment with antibiotics did the trick and I am now fully recovered. :-)</div> Low-elevation limestone pavement at Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve, Lancashire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024410"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/10/39024410.434aa985.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK Group.<br /> The Gait Barrows NNR near Silverdale, Lancashire, includes areas of low-elevation limestone pavement such as seen here and is home to a rich variety of plants, birds and animal life, including some very rare species. <br /> <br /> Natural England leaflet here:<br /> <a href="http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5368002631434240" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5368002631...</a><br /> <br /> From the NNR leaflet:<br /> <i>"Lying at the heart of the Arnside and Silverdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve is one of Britain’s most important limestone landscapes. The NNR contains an intricate mosaic of limestone habitats that are home to a rich variety of exciting and often rare wildlife. From open rock pavements to damp fen; from deep yew forest to the tranquillity of Hawes Water, there is much to see on a visit to Gait Barrows."</i><br /> <br /> A beautiful place, but it is also home to deer ticks and I was unfortunate enough to be bitten during my visit and subsequently contracted Lyme disease as a result. Fortunately, early treatment with antibiotics did the trick and I am now fully recovered. :-)</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024412 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-09,doc-39024412 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 10:06:46 +0000 2013-09-26T16:16:58+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024412"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/12/39024412.7d09e3bc.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="162" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> This is a view westwards over the Landshipping Pill and Daugleddau River at low tide from Landshipping Quay, Pembrokeshire, Wales. <br /> <br /> Close by here is a small but poignant memorial to the 40 miners killed in Pembrokeshire's worst ever coal mining disaster on 14th February 1844, when the rising tide broke through into a mine roadway heading out from the Garden Pit under the estuary with very little depth of cover to the sea bed. <br /> <br /> There are several contemporary accounts of the disaster which vary somewhat in the details, and are summarised here:<br /> <a href="http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Carm/Landshipping.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Carm/Landshipping.htm</a><br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/landshipping_mining_disaster_1844" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/landshipping_mining_disas...</a><br /> <br /> Having worked underground in the coal mines of Yorkshire and South Wales, I find these stories especially moving. Even today, I feel there is an intense sadness about this place which still lingers, even on a bright sunny day. <br /> <br /> A memorial service for the lost miners (which included children and probably some women too) is held annually on St Valentine's Day at St Burnett's Hill Chapel nearby.</div> A grey day and a sombre mood at Landshipping Quay, Pembrokeshire <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024412"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/44/12/39024412.7d09e3bc.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="162" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> <br /> This is a view westwards over the Landshipping Pill and Daugleddau River at low tide from Landshipping Quay, Pembrokeshire, Wales. <br /> <br /> Close by here is a small but poignant memorial to the 40 miners killed in Pembrokeshire's worst ever coal mining disaster on 14th February 1844, when the rising tide broke through into a mine roadway heading out from the Garden Pit under the estuary with very little depth of cover to the sea bed. <br /> <br /> There are several contemporary accounts of the disaster which vary somewhat in the details, and are summarised here:<br /> <a href="http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Carm/Landshipping.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Carm/Landshipping.htm</a><br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/landshipping_mining_disaster_1844" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/landshipping_mining_disas...</a><br /> <br /> Having worked underground in the coal mines of Yorkshire and South Wales, I find these stories especially moving. Even today, I feel there is an intense sadness about this place which still lingers, even on a bright sunny day. <br /> <br /> A memorial service for the lost miners (which included children and probably some women too) is held annually on St Valentine's Day at St Burnett's Hill Chapel nearby.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024394 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-15,doc-39024394 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:50:54 +0000 2013-09-23T11:44:11+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024394"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/94/39024394.03123d88.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> An excellent storm beach at Aberbach, a nice secluded spot on the north-west Pembrokeshire coast. There is no vehicular access to this place.</div> Storm beach at Aberbach, Pembrokeshire, Wales. <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024394"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/94/39024394.03123d88.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group.<br /> An excellent storm beach at Aberbach, a nice secluded spot on the north-west Pembrokeshire coast. There is no vehicular access to this place.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024390 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-16,doc-39024390 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:16:18 +0000 2012-06-22T18:10:46+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024390"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/90/39024390.fad9d74b.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Balchladich Bay is a quiet, peaceful spot on the south-west coast of the Stoer peninsula in Sutherland. In this southerly view, the Coigach peninsula is visible on the far skyline. <br /> <br /> The rocks here are reddish sandstones with subordinate mudstone and conglomerate beds of the Stoer Group. They are similar to the unconformably overlying Torridonian sandstones but predate them by around 200 million years.</div> Balchladich Bay, Stoer peninsula, Sutherland <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024390"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/90/39024390.fad9d74b.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Balchladich Bay is a quiet, peaceful spot on the south-west coast of the Stoer peninsula in Sutherland. In this southerly view, the Coigach peninsula is visible on the far skyline. <br /> <br /> The rocks here are reddish sandstones with subordinate mudstone and conglomerate beds of the Stoer Group. They are similar to the unconformably overlying Torridonian sandstones but predate them by around 200 million years.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024392 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-15,doc-39024392 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 17:52:53 +0000 1991-09-01T00:00:00+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024392"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/92/39024392.0262f8cc.240.jpg?r2" width="162" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Mr Jorrocks was a very talented and athletic Cotswold morris side based in Frittenden in Kent. The name came from The Bell and Jorrocks pub in the village where they used to practice. The pub is still there but sadly, the morris side is no longer active.<br /> <br /> In the photo, Tim and Andrew are dancing a morris jig - possibly Princess Royal - memory fails me, it was taken so long ago, in 1991! <br /> <br /> Taken with a Zenit E camera; scanned from a Kodacolor print.</div> Mr Jorrocks morris dancers at The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024392"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/92/39024392.0262f8cc.240.jpg?r2" width="162" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Mr Jorrocks was a very talented and athletic Cotswold morris side based in Frittenden in Kent. The name came from The Bell and Jorrocks pub in the village where they used to practice. The pub is still there but sadly, the morris side is no longer active.<br /> <br /> In the photo, Tim and Andrew are dancing a morris jig - possibly Princess Royal - memory fails me, it was taken so long ago, in 1991! <br /> <br /> Taken with a Zenit E camera; scanned from a Kodacolor print.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024388 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-19,doc-39024388 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:22:43 +0000 2012-03-26T13:11:27+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024388"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/88/39024388.b23323af.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Bricks and reeds at the base of the derelict (but undergoing restoration) Walberswick windpump on the edge of the Westwood marshes, Walberswick, Suffolk.</div> Bricks and reeds <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024388"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/88/39024388.b23323af.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Bricks and reeds at the base of the derelict (but undergoing restoration) Walberswick windpump on the edge of the Westwood marshes, Walberswick, Suffolk.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024352 tag:ipernity.com,2015-03-30,doc-39024352 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:09:19 +0000 2012-06-19T13:00:22+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024352"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/52/39024352.86c07e8b.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="164" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Laxford Bay is the south-eastern extremity of Loch Laxford, a sea loch cut through the Lewisian Gneiss 'knock and lochan' landscape of Sutherland in NW Scotland. A remote, peaceful place.</div> Laxford Bay, Sutherland <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024352"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/52/39024352.86c07e8b.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="164" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Laxford Bay is the south-eastern extremity of Loch Laxford, a sea loch cut through the Lewisian Gneiss 'knock and lochan' landscape of Sutherland in NW Scotland. A remote, peaceful place.</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024326 tag:ipernity.com,2015-04-03,doc-39024326 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:29:31 +0000 2012-06-20T11:28:25+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024326"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/26/39024326.9702b961.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>A day on Quinag - photo 8</b>.<br /> Another quick rest on the walk in. Looking west to the pass of Bealach a' Chornaidh. The direct route to Sàil Gharbh lies up a steep path on the flank on the right, before the bealach. <br /> <br /> 'How sweet to be a cloud, <br /> Floating in the blue....'</div> Quinag: Bealach a&#039; Chornaidh <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024326"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/26/39024326.9702b961.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="160" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"><b>A day on Quinag - photo 8</b>.<br /> Another quick rest on the walk in. Looking west to the pass of Bealach a' Chornaidh. The direct route to Sàil Gharbh lies up a steep path on the flank on the right, before the bealach. <br /> <br /> 'How sweet to be a cloud, <br /> Floating in the blue....'</div> Earthwatcher https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024302 tag:ipernity.com,2011-04-14,doc-39024302 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:01:10 +0000 2011-03-28T13:21:23+01:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Earthwatcher) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024302"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/02/39024302.94dc7e4e.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="162" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"></div> Walberswick wind pump, Suffolk <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/earthwatcher">Earthwatcher</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39024302"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/43/02/39024302.94dc7e4e.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="162" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description"></div> Earthwatcher