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shewhomust) wrote2019-02-10 08:38 pm
shewhomust) wrote2019-02-10 08:38 pm
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A virtual excursion
We aren't getting out much at the moment, because reasons, so I'm indulging myself with a post left over from last summer, in Norfolk, and some of the pictures I didn't post at the time. This one, though, may look familiar:
because I've posted before about Blakeney's village sign. But where else could I start a stroll around the village?
This isn't intended as a comprehensive guide, but picture a string of villages along the main road which runs parallel to the coast: Blakeney church is on the landward side of that main road, and the village itself is three streets which straggle down to the coast (or at least, to the boundary between the land and the marshes). Mays Cottage is off one of the many side turnings off the High Street, near the top, which puts it at the opposite point to the village sign. It has flint built walls, and a weathervane, and a little garden, but perversely, although I photographed these things, my favourite picture of the cottage is this row of privies across the green shared by a cluster of cottages:
This will never do! Quick, have a pretty flower:
and a boat:
Blakeney is clearly the place to go if you like boats, and there were plenty of the real thing around, but I enjoyed the ones decoratively framed in window after window down the High Street (our weathervane was a sailing boat, too). There's another one in the far window of the gray house here:
but I loved the tiny frontage of 'the Hidden House'. And one last view of the High Street, a rather abstract framing of the entrance to one of the side turnings which is currently my desktop background:
If you turn hard right at the bottom of the High Street, you come to the Guildhall:
the undercroft which is what remains of the house of a wealthy merchant (though it was at one point used as a guildhall by the guild of fish merchants), If you turn left - well, the sea may be out of sight beyond the marches, but this is still the seaside:
because I've posted before about Blakeney's village sign. But where else could I start a stroll around the village?
This isn't intended as a comprehensive guide, but picture a string of villages along the main road which runs parallel to the coast: Blakeney church is on the landward side of that main road, and the village itself is three streets which straggle down to the coast (or at least, to the boundary between the land and the marshes). Mays Cottage is off one of the many side turnings off the High Street, near the top, which puts it at the opposite point to the village sign. It has flint built walls, and a weathervane, and a little garden, but perversely, although I photographed these things, my favourite picture of the cottage is this row of privies across the green shared by a cluster of cottages:
This will never do! Quick, have a pretty flower:
and a boat:
Blakeney is clearly the place to go if you like boats, and there were plenty of the real thing around, but I enjoyed the ones decoratively framed in window after window down the High Street (our weathervane was a sailing boat, too). There's another one in the far window of the gray house here:
but I loved the tiny frontage of 'the Hidden House'. And one last view of the High Street, a rather abstract framing of the entrance to one of the side turnings which is currently my desktop background:
If you turn hard right at the bottom of the High Street, you come to the Guildhall:
the undercroft which is what remains of the house of a wealthy merchant (though it was at one point used as a guildhall by the guild of fish merchants), If you turn left - well, the sea may be out of sight beyond the marches, but this is still the seaside: