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The view of The Pier from the Central Promenade, Cleethorpes, 01/04/15.

04 Saturday Apr 2015

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Cleethorpes.
Still no view from The Pier, but here is a view of it for you from the Central Promenade. I’m not sure what sort of works are being carried out on The Pier, but it appears to require a lot of scaffolding!

The Sun was out on Wednesday, as you can see from the photograph above, but was also very windy. The donkeys were plodding up and down the beach, seemingly unimpressed by the horses striding more gracefully on a parallel course. The wind hadn’t put off the crazy and miniature golfers, who were out in force [even I ventured onto the Oddballs crazy golf course] and I saw my first kite of 2015. I didn’t see any one dog walking, but two chaps with a dog were having a cup of tea outside Olivers [despite the wind a number of people, including myself, opted to take their tea outside in the fresh air].

A view of the Pier Slipway and The Pier, Cleethorpes, 20/02/15.

20 Friday Feb 2015

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Cleethorpes.
It was a bit chilly on the Promenade this afternoon, but that didn’t stop me [and a lot of other people] from enjoying it. The dog walkers were out in force and there was a metal detectorist examining a patch of sand by the Pier Slipway, but the surprising thing was the queues of people at the various kiosks along the Promenade; I would have thought it was too early in the year to be queuing up for ice cream! The donkeys were at work on the beach, but The Pier wasn’t open, so I could not walk to the end of it and take a photograph for you.

My first view of The Pier this year, Cleethorpes, 16/01/15.

16 Friday Jan 2015

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Chilly.

Chilly.

The Incoming Tide, Cleethorpes, 04/11/14.

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

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Cleethorpes.
These photographs were taken from The Promenade at around 3 o’clock this afternoon. I would usually be home by then, but I’d been to the early showing at the pictures (The Parkway Cinema), so I was back out, enjoying the seasonably good weather with plenty of time on my hands.

Cleethorpes.

Cleethorpes.

No View from The Pier, but a view of The Pier, Cleethorpes, 04/11/14.

04 Tuesday Nov 2014

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Access... DENIED!

Access… DENIED!

I couldn’t take a photograph from the end of The Pier for you today, because The Pier is currently a building site. I guess the Autumn is the best time to carry out any work on a pier, before the onset of Winter and the more profitable Spring and Summer seasons.

The view  of The Pier from the Pier Slipway.

The view of The Pier from the Pier Slipway.

You can’t really see what is going on behind the white fences the workman have put up, but you might notice one or two differences.

Cleethorpes.

The view from the Pier Slipway, Cleethorpes, 23/10/14.

23 Thursday Oct 2014

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The Pier Slipway.

The Pier Slipway.

The Pier was closed, so I couldn’t take a “View from the end of The Pier” photograph for you! This was as close to the end of The Pier as I could get without getting sand in my shoes.

The view of the end of The Pier.

The view of the end of The Pier.

Cleethorpes.

The view from The Pier, Cleethorpes, 22/09/14.

22 Monday Sep 2014

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DSCN3559I took today’s “View from The Pier” photograph in the afternoon, so most the beach is in the shadow of the Pier Pavilion or covered by the incoming tide.

An alternative view from The Pier.

An alternative view from The Pier, 22/09/14.

The View from The Pier, Cleethorpes, 23/07/14.

23 Wednesday Jul 2014

Posted by Mr. B Flaneur in Cleethorpes. North East Lincolnshire., Out and About.

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Cleethorpes.
It was windy at the end of The Pier this morning, so much so I had to hang onto my hat! Note the Council’s dune buggy, which ferries the beaches health and safety officers up and down the beach.

Cleethorpes.

Cleethorpes.

Tea, Fish and Chips and Bitter: Cleethorpes, 04/07/14.

04 Friday Jul 2014

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Our first view of The Pier.

Our first view of The Pier.

My friend Scott prefers the train to the bus, so todays walk started with us walking along the platform of Cleethorpes station and stepping down to the Promenade; a short walk from The Pier. It was sunny, with a very pleasant breeze and the people were out making the most of it. We were focused on getting a cup of tea however, so we largely ignored the sunbathers, paddlers, donkey riders and sand castle builders.

We spotted our first scooter parked up opposite the shed usually occupied by the chap who loans out deckchairs. Scooters would become something of a theme on our walk, but this was the only one I recall seeing on the Promenade around midday.

The first scooter we spotted.

The first scooter we spotted.

Scott posed for photographs beside the Pelican statue and the waterfall, then we headed up hill, walked passed the R.A.F Coastal Command memorial and onto Alexandra Road.

Beside the car park, outside the bank at the end of North Sea Lane, we found three more scooters, arranged in a triangle around a tree! A banner, draped across the front of the Royal Naval Association Club, suggested that a Northern Soul related event might have brought out the scooter riders for a long weekend at the seaside.

A scooter triangle.

A scooter triangle.

At the end of Sea View Street we turned in Cambridge Street. Twiggies Tea Room is a lovely place I discovered on my last walk around Cleethorpes. Tea Room is decorated with sepia photographs of “Herring Girls” and Dame Vera Lynn, for that vintage look, but the tea is the thing; it’s all about the tea.

Recharged from our tea we headed back up Sea View Street to Alexandra Road. The frequency of scooter sighting increased now and they could be heard from some way off; buzzing like bumblebees. We noticed that the flags from last weekends Armed Forces Day events were still hanging from the lampposts; flags including the White Ensign of the Royal Navy outside the Royal Naval Association Club.

Scott recommended the Seaways fish and chip shop, which has been recently refurbished, and we had our dinner “open” i.e in a tray with a sheet of brown paper underneath (I had haddock and chips and Scott went for a jumbo sausage).

Tea at Twiggies Tea Room.

Tea at Twiggies Tea Room.

We ate our dinner in The Pier Gardens in the company of a man who had modelled his hair and outfit on “The Mod Father” himself, Paul Weller, and had decorated the front of scooter with an impressive number of headlights and wing mirrors.

Scott wanted to go for a paddle and I didn’t, so he took off his shoes and waddled out as far as the end of The Pier and I walked along The Pier. Whilst he walked back up the beach I popped into The Pier, or the first time, and ordered half a pint of Tetley’s Smooth for me and half a pint of Carling for Scott. The interior is very well presented and it was very busy. Most of The Pier’s patrons had been driven inside by the wind, I assumed, but Scott and I were determined to make the most of the fresh air and sat at a picnic table with a view of the train station and the train we were just about to miss (not that we were in a hurry).

Off The Pier the scooter riders were still very much evidence, but they were joined by the land train, which had been decorated with flowers and an ornamental scare crow, someone towing a motorboat up the slip way and a kite flyer. Then, after a short walk along the beach and an encounter with three ladies riding horses, we headed back to the station and the train home.

The White Ensign of the Royal Navy.

The White Ensign of the Royal Navy.

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