For the next installment of my Yorkshire: Shifting Sands project, I wanted to move away a little from the erosion & environmental changes that the coastline is undergoing to start looking at some of the social changes.

Bridlington is the southernmost of Yorkshire’s ‘big’ seaside towns.

As recently as 15 years ago, the coast road between Ulrome & Skipsea was the main bus route between the two small seaside towns. Having a regular bus service meant that the local caravan park was a thriving summer destination for people to enjoy the miles of sandy beach.

The Shed is an odd place. I have a regular route that I ride on my bike. It’s a 20 mile loop around the nearby villages & serves, through Summer, as my morning ride. I must have ridden it maybe 50 times? I have never seen this shed before.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been to Easington beach. I think I was probably 8 or 9 years old last time. lt has changed in that time. The beach as grown considerably wider. Much of East Yorkshire’s coastline is made of soft clay. The cliffs were never going to be able to withstand the constant battering from the North Sea. Over the years, they have worn away, gradually depositing the wartime defences that used to protect the coast, on the beach.

I have had some time to work on my Yorkshire Coast project though. Little bits, here and there. Grabbing an afternoon where possible and weather permitting, to go out and get a few photographs. I’m already several locations behind with the sharing side of things, but that’s ok, the direction is always more important than the speed.

December on Spurn Point is bitterly cold. It catches the wind coming off the North Sea in a way that no other part of the Yorkshire Coast that I’ve ever been to does.

Hangmen is a darkly satirical play about the abolition of hanging in the UK, by British-Irish Playwright Martin McDonagh. You may have seen some of his other work: The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths & Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri make for quite the back catalogue of quality and should give you an idea of what you’d be in for.

Over the last few weekends, I’ve been for a few walks with family, to the woods. It’s a great time of the year for it. At this time of year he low golden sun comes through the trees in the late afternoon and creates a fleeting magic.

The Selby complex of coal mines was the last big development in the UK coal industry. North Selby Mine was one of five which made up part the £100m Selby Coalfield Complex, which also included Wistow Mine, Stillingfleet Coal Colliery, Riccall Mine, Whitemoor Mine and Gascoigne Wood Mine. The five deep mines spanned a 20 mile radius and were linked underground.

April 20, also known as “420,” is a day popular with many marijuana smokers. They see this date as an unofficial holiday and celebrate by getting high. The term “420” originated in the 1970s with a group of California high schoolers who would regularly meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke weed.