Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Another weekend selection of allsorts..

Spent the weekend in the Sun on the south coast, with an array of all manner of interest to point my lenses at..  
  

Playing cat and pigeon.








St Gregory's church, 12th Century, built over the original wooden 8th century structure.  The body of the famous smuggler, Jack Rattenbury - a real life Jack Sparrow, is buried in the graveyard here.. read about his amazing adventures here.
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The beach at Beer
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St Peters church, built for use by the nearby Grove prison by prisoners in 1892.  It is now privately owned.
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Two wooden crosses dedicated to unknown seamen washed ashore after HMS Formidable was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast during an exercise at the start of the First World War. Only 199 men survived from a crew of 750. Some fascinating facts about that day can be read here.

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