We went on a walk to a part of Beverley that we had never been to before. For years we had tried to find the Beverley Canal but had been looking in the wrong place. It was an interesting walk with things that we hadn't expected to find at all. A lot of it was over common grazing land that was surrounded by industrial units. The Common land adjoined the Beverley Canal which at one time, not so long ago had barges on it where owners lived but these were removed as people objected about the barge dwellers not paying council tax. Even though they offered to pay they were still removed. We did see two barges still with people in them but not sure why they were still there.

Most of the common land, which was a huge area, had horses grazing. There were hundreds of horses of all different types and many had foals. Not a clue who owns them or if anyone does at all but they all look very happy and healthy.

Vic has just looked up about the use of the land and the use of the land goes back to the 1277 so a lot of history there.

Bridlington Station has it's usual floral displays both outside and in. The white parts on the wall at the back are where they had even more flowers in planters last year but the watering system got into the bricks so it wasn't a good idea.

An old cottage at the side of the canal. This is now on a road that used to be the main road but a fast, new road has been built instead. I bet it was really peaceful for a while but now everywhere around there are new industrial units and the cottage is for sale. There were more beautiful cottages and houses that backed onto the canal but all were now in a very big industrial area--how times change when a new fast road link is built.

A nice pub where we would have gone for a bite to eat if it had been open. We had already found a really nice place when we got off the train in Beverley. The lady there made steak pies that were terrific -well so Vic said. I had a tuna salad sandwich lol.

The canal

These 2 horses were huge-they were like the dray horses that I remember from when I was a child

More horses and showing the industrial units all around in the distance

A lovely pony

Not a clue what this type of barge is at all but intend to try to find out

We should have crossed this bridge which goes over the Beverley Drain but we missed it completely and only saw it as we walked along the side of the canal. Beverley drain is a small river that I image will be a large river when it rains heavily as Vic has just read that the common (Swine Moor) floods at times of heavy rain and attracts birds so that will be another day to go there.  We veered left and ended up on the new, busy road but soon found a way to get off it again.

This was taken from another very small bridge over the Drain. Aren't the signets beautiful from above? Just after Vic took this photograph they all tucked theirs heads in and went to sleep--we must be very boring lol

The 'Drain' again and doesn't it look like a beautiful place? Close up to either side of this picture are industrial units yet again and the path comes out onto a very busy road in the middle of large industrial units. Such wonder we found in amongst all the industry.

Another view of our station here at Bridlington

Hope you enjoyed the trip to Beverley Canal and 'Drain'