Pete2d ago
The recent storms have nicely re-exposed a few of the Mersey estuary wrecks, and I rode out to have a closer look this morning. The most spectacular is the Star of Hope which sank sailing from #NorthCarolina to #Liverpool in 1883. #fatbike #Cycling #BikeTooter
Show threadlouisa_ :)2d ago
@pete Oh that's cool. Whereabouts is it? Hightown ish?
Show threadPete2d ago
@louisa_ A little further north, off Ainsdale.
I remember there used to be one off Hightown that still had a mast in place when I was growing up. The Pegu, apparently (ad-ridden website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/shipwrecks-you-can-see-merseyside-12791727)
Shipwrecks you can see off the Merseyside coastline

The vessels claimed by Liverpool Bay and off the Sefton shores over the centuries

Liverpool Echo
Show threadlouisa_ :)2d ago
@pete oh really? Gosh! Fun! I didn't realise there were so many wrecks at Ainsdale despite growing up in Southport (even working at Pontins in Ainsdale for a bit). Thanks for the link.
Show threadPete2d ago

@louisa_ Ah, a woollyback*?! I’m a posh** kid from Formby.

* 😉
** I’m really not.

Show threadlouisa_ :)2d ago

@pete I think you misspelled "placcy scally from Formby" 😉

(I saw your posting the other day that said your aunt lived in Formby but didn't know if you were from there too.)

But yes, I'm most definitely a wool. Though I live on the Pennine moors now, to be closer to my 🐑🐑🐑 kin

A few years ago, I cycled the Leeds-Liverpool Canal with two other wools (from Wallasey & St Helens) and we all got progressively more scouse as we headed west 😂

Show threadPete2d ago
@louisa_ Haha brilliant. Just dug out this reference which I’ve always liked.
Show threadBruce D Porter1d ago
@pete @louisa_ many (older) Wallasians were born in Cheshire, but the border was moved.
However, some of us moved St Helens and could now be classed as Woolies.
I've also ridden the Leeds/Liverpool , but was neither of your riding partners :⁠-⁠).
(I also started at Cleethorpes, because that is where the train went :⁠-⁠))
Show threadlouisa_ :)
@ytc1 @pete Starting the Leeds-Liv at Cleethorpes is a choice! I see the coast-to-coast appeal but would still probably have picked a different bit of the east coast. Did you go via Hull? I love the riding between Hull & Leeds - it's where I used to go when craving the flatlands of the Mersey plain (but without actually going to the Mersey plain).
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Show threadBruce D Porter1d ago
@louisa_ @pete I crossed at the bridge a d picked up the TPT for a bit to Howden.
Cleethorpes is ok, as I am riding the coast in bits it filled in another section. Might do Newcastle to Hull this year.
Show threadlouisa_ :)1d ago

@ytc1 @pete ah ok, filling in the coast makes sense! Have you already Coasts-and-Castled Newcastle to Edinburgh? That's a stunning route.

I've walked nearly all the Yorkshire leg of your Hull to Newcastle section, and want to do the north-of-Middlesborough bit soon - just have been waiting for the KCIII coastal path to reconnect some last parts... Good luck with your ride!

Show threadBruce D Porter19h ago

@louisa_ @pete

Not done Scotland yet, that is another project.
We have lomked up from Chester/Deeside to Gretna, then back ti Carisle across to Berwick following Hadrians and Penine way, then down to Newcastle.
Meanwhile my wife has walked the welsh coast+offas and the SW coast.