Here and there, a bit of a drive around.

Back in March this year, Popcorn & I had a drive around and some short walks.  We went to Swinhope, the Wolds Railway and called to see some Llamas.

The farmers were preparing the fields for another crop.

The ever present Gulls looking for a free meal.

Trees devoid of their leaves, I prefer to photograph them in winter as you can see their
skeletal structure.

Down in the valley is Swinhope, a small group of dwellings.
There's a really old church there which I've been photographing but had to wait for 
some repairs inside before I could gain access.  I've now been able to go in so I'll post 
the photo's of the church in my next post.  (If I remember!!" 

A short drive away and we came across this pub called "The Click'em Inn".

Obviously referring to the sheep farmers.

In a completely different area are these Llamas & Alpacas. 

Another short drive away to the Wolds Railway, a preserved heritage railway
at Ludborough.

It was a Tuesday and not open to the public.  Tuesday is a work day when the volunteers
do whatever work is required.  They let me take photographs there. 

Here one of the workmen is saying hello to Popcorn while I take a few pics.

An old K6 Payphone, a reminder for me of my days as a BT telephone engineer.
Although, when I joined it was called Post Office Telephones.

Quite a few of the volunteers here are retired telephone engineers who I worked with.

The working signal box.

Nikon Z6_2 with 14-70mm lens.

 

A walk along Cleethorpes Promenade.

 As residents of the seaside resort of Cleethorpes, Popcorn regularly walk along our Promenade and seafront.  I've posted many pictures from here before, but on this walk I tried to include a few different views and items of interest.

Ross Castle, a Victorian Folly built in 1885 for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Railway Company.  The arrival of the railway brought thousands of holiday makes to 
Cleethorpes and it became a favourite holiday destination for the industrial workers of South 
Yorkshire and beyond.

The tide was coming in but with hardly a ripple on the water.

Our newly built RNLI Lifeboat Station.  Now complete and in service.  It was open to the public
recently and, of course, Popcorn & I went inside inside to photograph it and the two Lifeboats.
It was very busy, lots of visitors looking around and the photo's I got were the last in my project
of photographing the construction of the station, from the 1st piles being driven in to the Open
Day of the finished project.  I now have to go through them all, but I will be posting the set of
photo's here on my blog in the future.

Some pics looking toward the sun and the south end of the resort.

Plenty of people out for a stroll.

This lady had found a quiet place in one of the Victorian Shelters.  
I did get her permission to take & use this picture.

Wherever you go there seems to be roadworks.

View from the Victorian Shelter.

One of the council gardeners watering the flower beds, they've suffered this year.

A brand new bus shelter!  I thought I'd get a pic of it before someone "decorates" it.

You may wonder why I photographed a Bus, the next photo will explain. 

I was about to take this view of folk enjoying the sunshine at the café when the bus 
stopped at the bus stop right in front!

A local pub and micro brewery.

Another view out along the beach.

This is our Memorial Gate, built to commemorate all the Armed Forces and at the centre of
our annual Armed Forces Day.  Cleethorpes was chosen to host the National Armed Forces
Day celebrations this year, as it was in 2016.

Olympus OM10 iv + 14-42mm lens.