Somewhere different for tea

[Hagar]

Thought I might as well make a day of it. After breakfast at the airport I went with one of my old mates to a local beauty spot for tea.

This is Emsworth, near the old RAF station at Thorney Island. Nice place for yachts & also a nature reserve. Too chilly for ice cream but the sunset was breathtaking & well worth the wait.










PS. Unfortunately that nice tea room was closed by the time we got back. Never mind, we made other arrangements.

[TacitBlue]

very nice, Id love to come see England for myself some time. Whats with the marooned boats in the second to last shot.

[Jared]

lovely shots, looks like a nice place to live! ;-)

[Hagar]

Thanks guys.

Whats with the marooned boats in the second to last shot.

The tide was out. I'll go back when it's in & show you what it looks like then.

[ozzy72]

Lovely photos Doug, making me homesick again. I got up to ANOTHER blizzard this morning

[C]

Looks cold again there Doug...

Nice pictures, must venture down towards that part of the coast at some point.

[Omag 2.0]

A day at the seashore! Always a good idea... soothing shots Doug...

Kinda doubt the owner of the pub "tearoom" ( yeah right!) has a degree in marketing... Look at the big NO ENTRY sign in front of his door!  ::)  ;D

[Hagar]

A day at the seashore! Always a good idea... soothing shots Doug...

Thanks Omag. I live by the sea shore (always have) so I can go any time I wish. Only a 10 minute walk from here but it's a little different from what you see in my photos. The grass on the left side of the fence in shot #3 is actually someone's back garden.

[quote]Kinda doubt the owner of the pub "tearoom" ( yeah right!) has a degree in marketing... Look at the big NO ENTRY sign in front of his door!

[Craig.]

Beautiful shots doug. Always nice to see a sunset over the sea.

[beaky]

Loverly! Must be awkward, tripping over all that beauty lying all over the place. You may not get the reference, but I laughed when I saw the "Flintstones" name... Yabba-Dabba-Doo!!

[beaky]

This is the pub - or one of them. There's 11 pubs in Emsworth.

Sounds like Emsworth's my kind of town! Hoboken, NJ, which is only a mile square, had over 20 drinking establishments when I lived there over ten years ago, and may well have more today. Some of them even serve a decent pint...

[OldW]

Great pics

[chomp_rock]

I wish I lived in an area that beautiful. In my area it is nothing but ugly buildings, ugly cars, ugly roads and beaches that are so buggered up by garbage that I don't even like to look at them

[Hagar]

I wish I lived in an area that beautiful. In my area it is nothing but ugly buildings, ugly cars, ugly roads and beaches that are so buggered up by garbage that I don't even like to look at them

As a matter of interest I looked up the history of Emsworth. It's beautiful now but it wasn't always like that. The main sewerage sytem ran straight into the harbour & contaminated the oyster beds.

In 1902 Emsworth oysters were served as the first course to a banquet attended by the Dean of Winchester amongst others. He and a number of others died and it was found that the oysters were polluted with sewage. The sale of oysters were banned until the new sewage scheme was opened in 1914. After the First World War the industry got going again but never reached its previous peak.

http://www.conservancy.co.uk/out/harbour_villages.asp?village=Emsworth

Emsworth is only a few miles from here but this was the first time I've ever been there.