Photographs of the ancient village of Flookburgh and scenic Humphrey Head on Morecambe Bay in South Cumbria.
The cast and wrought iron footbridge at Cark in Cartmel Railway Station, Cumbria.
The station was built in 1857 for the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway which later became part of the Furness Railway.
A shrimping trailer on Sandgate Marsh at Cark in Cartmel, Cumbria.
The Market Cross, Flookburgh, Cumbria, UK.
The cross is dated 1882, but the base and steps are probably much older.
St John the Baptist's Church, Flookburgh, Cumbria, UK.
The church was designed by Austin and Paley, and its foundation stone laid in 1897.
Second World War pillbox on the foreshore of West Plain, Flookburgh on the Cumbria coast, UK.
Traditional shrimping trailers with pull-out arms for attaching nets at Flookburgh on the South Cumbria Coast.
Flookburgh fishermen ready to go shrimp fishing with tractors and special trailers at low tide in Morecambe Bay.
Shrimp fishing in Morecambe Bay at Flookburgh in Cumbria.
Laying the shrimp nets.
Shrimp fishing in Morecambe Bay at Flookburgh in Cumbria.
Gathering in the nets.
Flookburgh fisherman, Steve Manning, trawling for shrimps on a tractor in Morecambe Bay.
Flookburgh fisherman Steve Manning points out a stinging weever fish that was caught in the shrimp nets on Morecambe Bay.
Shrimping tractor returning home over the sands of Morecambe Bay to Flookburgh in Cumbria.
Grading Morecambe Bay shrimps according to size at Flookburgh in Cumbria.
Fisherman cooking shrimps, cockles and weever fish in a large boiler.
A tray of boiled Morecambe Bay shrimps, ready for preparing and potting, Flookburgh, in Cumbria.
A view over the Kent Estuary to Silverdale from the trig point on Humphrey Head near Allithwaite in Cumbria.
Graffiti removed.
The limestone cliffs of Humphrey Head near Allithwaite in Cumbria.
The limestone cliffs of Humphrey Head near Allithwaite in Cumbria.
The limestone cliffs of Humphrey Head near Allithwaite in Cumbria.
The limestone cliffs of Humphrey Head near Allithwaite in Cumbria.
The rocky promontory of Humphrey Head near Allithwaite in Cumbria.
The rocky promontory of Humphrey Head near Allithwaite in Cumbria.
The rocky promontory of Humphrey Head near Allithwaite in Cumbria.
Holy Well, Humphrey Head, Allithwaite, Cumbria.
Now just a trickle dripping out from a pipe, the waters from this ancient well were drunk by lead miners from Roman times to remove the poisins from their bodies. In his 'Churches, Castles, and Ancient Halls of North Lancashire', W.O. Roper writes, “One other appendage to the Priory of Cartmel should be mentioned, and that is the well known as the Holy Well. On the sea-shore, close under the towering cliffs of Humphrey Head, and almost immediately below the natural arch of rock which leads to the recess known as the Fairy Chapel, bubbles the well to which in former days the Priors journeyed in state from their neighbouring Priory, and to which in more recent times large numbers of people resorted, hoping to derive benefit from its medicinal qualities.”
A view of Ravenstown and the snow-covered Furness Fells from the Old Embankment, Flookburgh, Cumbria.
Ravenstown was built to house the workers of a new WW1 airship station for Vickers of Barrow in Furness after it was decided that Walney Airfield was deemed to vulnerable to attack from German U-boats. The site for the airship station is now known as Cark Airfield.