Holinshed's 16thC account of the destruction of Mumby Chapel, Lincolnshire, by the sea in 1570 http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/drowned-villages-of-lincolnshire.html …pic.twitter.com/JeTEwD389u
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Holinshed's 16thC account of the destruction of Mumby Chapel, Lincolnshire, by the sea in 1570 http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/drowned-villages-of-lincolnshire.html …pic.twitter.com/JeTEwD389u
Mablethorpe beach; the lost settlement of Mablethorpe St Peter lay offshore from this spot http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4178275 pic.twitter.com/6eHH3Sh8NW
Beach finds from Mablethorpe St Peter; village lost to sea in 1530s, tho' church still partly visible until 1870s... https://skegness.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/archeological-finds-lincolnshire-coast/ …pic.twitter.com/hzDr9rJZgs
The coastline of 13thC Lincolnshire, showing barrier islands that sheltered coast from the sea http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/drowned-villages-of-lincolnshire.html …pic.twitter.com/hx7L4DDE2p
Ravenserodd=intriguing, incidentally--founded on island in 13thC, grew by piracy, & then destroyed by sea in 14thC!https://writeonthebeach.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/ravenser-odd-the-town-under-the-sea/ …
@caitlinrgreen Don't be taken in by all that Grimsbarian propaganda!
Skegness pier in 1880 & pre-WWII; 'old Skegness' prob nr end of pier https://www.flickr.com/photos/lenton_sands/2000645279/ … & http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/detail.php?type=related&kv=231129&t=objects …pic.twitter.com/cBijngkHGK
Another section of the same railway poster showing Skegness in the 1880s, wonderful detail :) https://www.flickr.com/photos/lenton_sands/1992550447 …pic.twitter.com/eIoCMzCIrn
Lovely home movie showing a holiday in Mablethorpe in the 1940s, with colour footage: http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-mablethorpe-1940s-1948/ …pic.twitter.com/iS1J8BUHRI
@caitlinrgreen Same problem as with the Norse festival - won't play in the US. I may have to move!
@GeorgeRick1 They are good movies, but perhaps not quite good enough to be worth moving for, lol! ;)
A shipwreck on Sutton on Sea beach---no sign of the old village, but this can still be seen :) http://www.thebeachguide.co.uk/photos/sutton-on-sea-1801772.htm …pic.twitter.com/7GCQHHprUm
Last major breach of the Lincs sea defences was in 1953: http://www.y53.co.uk/ (pics) & http://www.britishpathe.com/video/lincolnshire-flooding … (vid)pic.twitter.com/AJtkXxMbzx
@caitlinrgreen I have a half remembered old poem in my head "Ring out, ring out ye Boston bells. Ring out The Bride of Enderby."
@HipBookfairy Yes! Jean Ingelow, 'High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571'---thanks for reminding me! :) http://gerald-massey.org.uk/ingelow/c_poems_%283%29.htm#140 …
Stain Hill and the Lincolnshire Marshes in the Anglo-Saxon period -- http://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/11/stain-hill-anglo-saxon-marsh.html …pic.twitter.com/IHS54LzGeX
A 7thC gold Anglo-Saxon pendant from one of the other 'islands' in the Lincolnshire Marshes: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/584053 …pic.twitter.com/mEVWpS6T6D
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