The drowned villages and eroding coastline of Lincolnshire, c. 1250–1600: new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/drowned-villages-of-lincolnshire.html …pic.twitter.com/Vo4fhEbkiU
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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 …
@caitlinrgreen @HipBookfairy what a lovely evocative poem :)
Shipwrecks+school attendance at Nth. Somercotes, Lincs,1867-99—children said to skip school in favour of scavenging! http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/shipwrecks-on-the-lincolnshire-coast-the-fallout …
@caitlinrgreen which I do believe local argot called “pickings ” %%robert 



@caitlinrgreen I seem to recall in the original Poldark series, when there's a shipwreck Judd Paynter “pickings for all” %r
@chopin_slut The phrase sounds very familiar to me---I suspect I've read it somewhere similar! :)
@caitlinrgreen perhaps if you've read the novels... I've not; an earlier Chief Justice of the US. SupremeCourt was seen reading them. %%r
@chopin_slut I suspect it's more likely I was in the room when the original BBC TV series was on....!
@caitlinrgreen amazing how things like that stick, especially in historical shows; I Claudius got me good 



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@chopin_slut This is very true! :) Although then have the problem of deciding if something is really in X source or just the TV version! ;)
Ref to drowned church at Sutton on Sea by de Serra, 1799, during discussion of 'islets' of Mesolithic forest there:pic.twitter.com/yRJl2vMwiA
@HARTResearch the last surviving Mablethorpe tea shop went under in the same storm, so I understand ... 




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