A very neglected churchyard had these old gravestones leaning perilously at very acute angles.
The stone building in the background is our hotel we stayed in at the beginning of this week. A passing tractor adds a little colour.
Taken at Cornhill-on-Tweed in Northumberland.
Thirty years today since the dreadful Abbeystead disaster affecting the next village to ours. Sixteen villagers killed in an explosion caused by methane gas in a water works chamber.
They were there on a visit arranged by United Utilities to inspect the new facilities for dealing with serious flooding affecting their village...the River Wyre runs through the village causing serious flood damage.
A service of remembrance to be held in St Michaels church this Sunday.
My sister was to have been 'given away' at her marriage by one of the victims who died.
That was so sad. So many people from a small village and of course it did for poor Pat Seed indirectly as well. It makes me shudder because that's exactly the sort of thing I would have gone to look round given a chance.
@judithg indeed Judith....you would be really interested to go & see & of course a lovely place to go on the Abbeystead Estate...a really lovely summer evening out in theory!
A tranquil scene Pat