Comments on: Paul Kingsnorth – The Bay

By: Karen Lloyd – Testing the Sands | The Clearing

Karen Lloyd – Testing the Sands | The Clearing — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:19:32 +0000

[…] year The Clearing visited Morecambe Bay in a provoking and memorable essay by Paul Kingsnorth. We are very pleased this week to be returning with a fresh pair of eyes. Karen Lloyd has lived for […]

By: Barbara Langley

Barbara Langley — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 06:29:03 +0000

(See also my comment on your Facebook page , in response to NN radio programme) Loved this essay. All this is in my blood and memory. The quicksands at Bardsea between my toes, waiting for the safe time to swim.
From arriving in Ulverston in the 1930s to 1957, my maternal grandparents , the Womersleys (Springfield Park Road) , had a ‘hut’ in a rented field overlooking Bardsea , which was the base and winter storage for their summer ‘camp’ , shared with friends young and old. They slept in tents there in the summer; with your front tent-flap open, you could look across the bay at the lights of Morecambe and Blackpool, and Blackpool Tower. My grandfather drove from there to work (Ulverston Education Officer, based above the old Library) in his Austin, one of the few cars on the roads then.
I have some old photos.

By: marianne Birkby

marianne Birkby — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:27:19 +0000

Paul’s Bee in the Bonnett seems to be saved for wind turbines….accumulating radioactive particles being chucked out into Morecambe bay from Sellafield and Heysham changes our relationship with the Bay..we are now all “receptors,” all of us as one with the curlew. If the whole Bay is classified a nuclear sacrifice zone will the poets still be writing about those pesky turbines?