Skippool Creek, Lancashire has history going back to the 16th C when it was a thriving port with traders arriving from far off lands like, ancient Russia and the Baltics as well as North America. It started to decline in the mid 1800's when a new port was built at Fleetwood nearer the estuary to the Irish Sea.
Well, come join me, let's walk.
So time and tide waits for no man, if you stray off the path you will get wet, you will get muddy.
Abandoned jetties, where once workers would manually toil; off loading tallow and flax, timber and tobacco or loading limestone from local quarries for export to the new world.
Now it is a mixture of long forgotten boats, timbers rotting, iron rusting, owners never to reclaim........
The ground is deceiving, marshy, boggy, hidden holes, I never thankfully found the rumoured quicksand, probably an urban myth to keep kids away.
.......whilst others seem to be worth renovating and repairing
I arrived back at the car park, there was no way I was getting in the car in this lot.
I'm sorry plod, but yes I did strip down to my pants, I didn't drop any litter, nor did I damage anything.
AND I really don't think walking from my boot to the door in just my pants and dry shoes is unacceptable.
