Cleethorpes Seafront.

 A few photo's taken in November 2023.

Apologies for more photo's of Cleethorpes Seafront.  Although I'm getting out a lot more now I haven't had time to edit my latest pics and I've had this post ready to go for a while.

A general view over the central promenade.

We often see a tribute to someone on the railings or one of the seats along the prom.

Breakwater at low tide.  People often say the tide never comes in at Cleethorpes, but
of course it does, twice daily.  They just happens to be unlucky when visiting.

A Little Egret foraging in one of the pools left behind as the tide receeds.

Another tribute.

We have some recycling bins on the seafront, this one is for plastics.

Brighton Slipway, named as it is opposite Brighton Street nearby.  To the left is the site
of the new RNLI lifeboat station.  Work has been stopped for quite a while now as the
original contractors went into liquidation.  A new contractor took over and work should
recommence again soon.

Despite the cold weather lots of people out in the fresh air.

One of the oldest pubs in Cleethorpes, always popular with visitors & residents.

Memorial statue in Pier Gardens in memory WW2 airmen
that flew out of North Coates RAF station a few miles away.

This is the Memorial Gate, commemorating all branches of the armed forces.

Nikon Z50 + 18-140 lens.

Cuxwold Church.

 Cuxwold is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Swallow, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies in the Lincolnshire Wolds, 4 miles (6 km) east from Caistor and 10 miles (16 km) south-west from Grimsby. In 1931 the parish had a population of 98.^[1] On 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished and merged with Swallow.

Above information courtesy of Wikipedia.

St. Nicholas Church is an 11th Century Grade 11 listed building with an earlier Saxon tower.  Very small but intimate, with some beautiful, interesting features.

Popcorn & I visited it on the 21st of June 2024.

St. Nicholas Church.  The graveyard is immaculately maintained and there are Commonwealth
War Graves here. 

Lovely stonework and Gothic arched window.

The Lincolnshire weather has taken it's toll on this carving. 

The interior is very plain but I find these out of the way churches more appealing than
larger churches or cathedrals.  A large brass oil lamp hangs above the Nave.

The west to east view looking toward the chancel.

And the oil lamp, now converted to electric.

An Arts & Crafts style candle holder.

The small organ will have accompanied many services,
Christenings, marriages and funerals plus others over 
hundreds of years.

Another view to show the inside of that Gothic arched window.  I personally prefer plain
latticed windows to the stained glass ones.

And Popcorn watched on patiently while I took my photo's.

Nikon Z6 ii + 24 - 70mm lens.

Some trees seen on a walk with Popcorn.

I've been able to take some photos recently but dont seem to get chance to sort a few to make a new post for the blog.

So here are a few pics of trees seen on a walk some time ago.  I took these pics while walking with Popcorn in February.

These are the "popular Poplar Trees" seen along the A16 in Lincolnshire.  I have been 
photographing them in various seasons for many years, as have all the keen photographers
around here.

A very old Horse Chestnut tree.

Lovely and bright through here in winter but at the height of summer, when the trees are in
full leaf, it's dark and like entering a cathedral.

Blackthorn blossom in the foreground. 

Blackthorn blossom.

A view across the fields to a small group of trees.  Away in the distance the land rises
at the start of the Lincolnshire Wolds hills.

I don't know what trees these are on the horizon, they have red berries in the Autumn.

A bridleway which my wife & I regularly walked, many happy memories.
Not sure I can tackle it just yet.

Those "berry trees" again.

Nikon Z50 + 16 - 50mm lens.

A few sights along the seafront at Cleethorpes.

 Over the weekend Popcorn & I had one or two walks along our promenade and I photographed the inshore RNLI lifeboat going out on a "shout", plus one or two other "odd items".

I've uploaded them in the order that I took them.

Willys Pub is opposite the beach on our seafront, but what caught my eye was this gentleman
walking by dressed in smart attire we don't seem to see nowadays.

Something else you don't often see, two little dogs enjoying a trip out in their buggy!

On the beach is what I really came out to see, the work on our new RNLI station is coming
on now.  Work started in early 2020  but when the main contractor went into liquidation it all
stopped.  Now things are really moving and the steel structure is going up.

Suddenly a siren sounded and from the old RNLI inshore lifeboat station (opposite the new one)
the crew where going out on a "shout" to rescue someone out in the Humber Estuary.

The tide was way out so the "Rib" had to be taken to the water on a trailer, towed there by
the tractor.

One more crew member to join them.....

Away down the slipway....

And out to the water.
I've lived in Cleethorpes all my life and this was the first time I'd seen an emergency launch.
I've seen several practice runs, but this was for real!

This is looking into the compound for the new lifeboat station. 

Steels laid out on the ground waiting to be lifted into place.

I've been going down to photograph the construction and progress with the crane lifting and
lowering steels into place.  I'll post a few photo's of the work in a future post.

And finally, as I was walking along the seafront gardens along came a rather colourful couple who kindly allowed me to photograph them and also said I could post their picture on my blog.
They were on there way to a festival being held at the south end of Cleethorpes.

Nikon Z6ii + 24 - 70mm lens.