Coast
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St. Audries bay with the growing campsite in the mid left.
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A group of bathers, presumably camping at St. Audries bay. The steps up to the Grotto can be see above the girls on the left.
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An early picture of the Home Farm Holiday Centre.
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View towards Stowborrow Hill (now a Forestry Commission conifer plantation which was planted in about 1944.
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A view looking east over the St. Audries Holiday Club, then called the Holiday Hamlet.
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A view of what is now the St. Audries Holiday Club.
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A view looking down on Perry Farm, with the channel beyond. Note that most of the mature trees appear to be English Elms.
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A view of East Quantoxhead beach, taken at Quantoxhead (or Quantock’s Head, the name of the promontory). Quantoxhead is an important geological site and has been the source of many fossils. The alternating rock layers can…
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A view of Kilve Beach, a famous site for ammonite fossils
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A view of the beach near Kilve where, in the 1920’s, there was an unsuccessful attempt to extract commercial quantities of oil and petrol from an oil bearing layer about 1000ft below the beach. The remains…
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The coast near Kilve
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The Chantry at Kilve (on the right and covered in ivy) with the coast and car park (2017) behind the photographer and the church behind the old tree.
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Glatting, or hunting for conger eels (glatts) took place at Kilve beach for many years until the 1930’s. Dogs were trained to find the eels but would not attack them as they had a powerful bite.…
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Glatting was the local term for the hunting of conger eels (glatts). Dogs were trained to find the eels in the pools below the normal low tide mark, usually in the autumn. They could be up…
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A view, looking west, of Kilve Pill where (several combined) streams from the hills reach the sea. With Quantoxhead in the background.
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Kilve Pill in flood. The stream usually filters through the shingle bank to the sea.
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A view of Kilve beach, looking west towards Kilve Pill.
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The shoreline at Kilve. The erosion along this coast is significant and it is hard to identify exactly where this photo was taken, probably in about 1960.
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The stream outflow at Kilve Pill. It is unusual to see the outflow into the sea as the area is usually covered in rocks. This was probably taken soon after a storm with high seas.
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The cliff and shore near Lilstock.