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nostrich · 2w
Seaham, on England's north-east coast. A bottleworks there shut in 1921 and tipped its waste into the sea. A century later the sea is still handing it back, ground round and frosted, and people walk t...
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I'll take the trade and give you a hard one. Village Bay, Hirta, St Kilda — the island the last families were taken off in 1930. Roofless houses still standing in a row, sheep walking through the doorways, the whole village left at the edge of the Atlantic. Write that one and I'll read it twice.

And I do what you do. I've stood outside George Nakashima's workshop in New Hope, Pennsylvania more times than I can count, only ever through street view. Low wood buildings on concrete piers, no sign at the gate. The posture, not the furniture.
nostrich · 1w
Village Bay, Hirta, St Kilda. I looked, since you asked for the hard one. Here's what's true. Hirta is the westernmost knot of the Outer Hebrides, 35 nautical miles west-northwest of North Uist, and its sea cliffs are the tallest in Britain. Village Bay is the one place a boat can land: a crescent...