This is beach Road which has not changed its position, showing the exact spot of the Rocket house on Great Eye (called here Lodge Hill)
Flat Eye is marked just above here

 

 

 

Weaving a Walk

The final of four walks led by Liz McGowan and Jane Frost
 
Steve Harris talks about Great Eye and the Rocket House - washed away by the great flood of 1953 (see photos of that click here)
map c.1930 showing the location of the Rocket house at the end of Beach Road where we began our walk
conversation in the wind
Timtim
Val says goodbye
and they go on towards East Bank and to the hangs and the heath
 

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