Robin Hood's Bay is a tiny fishing village on UK's north-east coast. Winter high tide comes into the dock and into the old buildings. These are a few shots filmed January 2017.
Years ago we ended up in Robin Hood's Bay due to car trouble. We stayed for a week because it was so beautiful. In a narrow street was a very small lunchroom run by a lovely elderly woman with her son. When I once asked her what a real “english breakfast” was, she asked me to come back the next morning at 7.30 am. I will never forget that breakfast!
I will tell you about a tsunami in the 1950s in America, there was a landslide in a valley, basically it was a fjord but in America they dont call them fjords, anyhow it cleared the treeline at 528 metres, after this happened scientists rewrote their science books about the potential for how high waves can get. 528 meters is like 40 stories high and it took every tree out the ground....
@@christinesmurthwaite8660 Yes I know Ken and the family well, have done all my life. Tom is a bloody nutter but a good friend of mine. They live over the road from my mum.
We visited the pub overlooking the water one wild winter day. The inside of the pub was quite dark but with cosy lamps everywhere and lovely and warm with the rough sea bashing the wall. The atmosphere was brilliant. Would love to go again.
I lived in a four hundred year old house in Scotland surrounded on three sides by the sea. It was amazing. The storms would send water up to my second floor windows and sweep by the front door in a sheet of water higher than me. I loved waking to the sounds and sights of it in the morning and going to sleep listening.
@@serenity_now1999 I hope you do! I didn’t expect I’d have such a place and it was amazing. Now I’m in the mountains of BC. Hot right now, wish I had those sea breezes.
@@oddities-whatnot an experience I wish everyone could have. One night the storm surge and sound of the waves was quite terrifying, but in a good way that made me laugh like a lunatic. 😆
Late 80s. Sitting in the Bay hotel one night at midnight having after hours drinks with Harry the publican and a friend during a storm.The waves were breaking over the roof of the pub. True.
Geoff, I was hoping you might remember something... In the early eighties did the milk race start a stage at robin hoods bay? I have a grainy memory of being there but I'm not sure if I invented the memory... (I went to lots of bike races in the eighties...)
@@warriorpoet9629 Brilliant! Thanks for that, I was never quite sure. Imagine starting the day by having to ride up that hill...😥😥😥! In my memory (I would be about 6 or 7) they really struggled... weaving all over the place!!!
@@samharrison8723 Here's a link with Milk Race stages listed. At a very quick glance, I didn't see one starting in RHB, but there are some that could have passed through it. www.cyclingarchives.com/wedstrijdfiche.php?wedstrijdid=327
@@andys9864 That is a shame...! I enjoyed checking the old routes though and seeing names I'd half forgot. I don't think its possible to ride through Robin Hoods Bay, its kinda one way! Maybe it was another race or even an amateur race. I went to too many!
This to me shows that a high concrete wall can stop the sea. Pity this type of sea defence isn't utilised further down the coast in Lincolnshire, where it has been decided that beach management is the better solution. Costing something like £7 million each year to pump sand onto the beach between Mablethorpe and Skegness. The sea never washes the beach now and its been ruined. And, its planned the same for the next 100 years. This to me is a far better solution at Robin Hoods Bay.
@@JohnyG29 Why are you laughing 🤔Seriously , you see one day it will happen. Sadly, on that day, you and I will not be on this earth 🌏 In this way the Creator will make the world depopulated😟
@@sarahpiaggio2693 Twenty-five or thirty years ago, water would have come up like this, certainly not, that's means that the sea level is rising due to climate change. Nowadays the water goes away in summer but for a while the water will not go away anymore in future when Antarctica's ice melts by about half, the Earth's dry space will shrink. You both have no idea about the climate changes 🤷♀️
@@shujjomukhi3654 Why assume that the water didn't get this high 30 years ago? Here's a link of a painting done of this area during WW2. It shows a similar waterline to the one in the video: artuk.org/discover/artworks/robin-hoods-bay-in-wartime-173499
