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Cliff walk along the coast of Howth, just north of Dublin, Ireland.
Decided on a vertical composition here, to exaggerate the cliffs and how they protrude into the ocean.
Finsbury Park Empire
London
Monday May 18th 1962
Cliff Richard and the Drifters
Billy Dainty
Kay and Kimberley
Two Rexanos
Lester Sharpe & Iris
Ron Scott
Five Dallas Boys
52 weeks of pix. SOOC. family portrait on the cliffs of moher Ireland straight out of iPhone.
Flickr lounge: Happiness is...vacation/hiking w the family in beautiful place
Dassievoêl
(Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris)
The mocking cliff chat, mocking chat or cliff chat, is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae which occurs in rocky habitats in much of eastern Sub-Saharan Africa.
The mocking cliff chat is a large chat with distinctive colouration. The male has a glossy black with a chestnut belly, vent, and rump and white shoulder patches. The shoulder patches vary in size geographically. The female is dark grey with a chestnut lower breast, belly, and vent. The mocking cliff chat has a length of 19–21 cm and weigh 41–51g.
A loud fluty melodious warbling song which often contains many rapid fire phrases mimicking other species, with some harsher phrases interspersed.
The mocking cliff chat occurs in a neat band from central Ethiopia in the north through east Africa into Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana, southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa as far as the far east of Western Cape province. Mostly resident but in the south of its range tends to move to lower altitudes in the winter months.
The mocking cliff chat inhabits rocky and boulder strewn areas, well-wooded rocky ravines, cliffs, gullies, boulder-strewn hillsides and watercourses in valley bottoms with scattered rocks.
There are six currently recognised subspecies
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris kordofanensis Wettstein, 1916: Nuba Mountains, in central Sudan.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris albiscapulata (Rüppell, 1837): northern Eritrea and northern, central and eastern Ethiopia.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris. subrufipennis Reichenow, 1887: eastern South Sudan and south-western Ethiopia south through the Rift Valley and Tanzania to eastern Zambia and Malawi.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris odica Clancey, 1962: Eastern Zimbabwe.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris cinnamomeiventris (Lafresnaye, 1836): Eastern Botswana, eastern South Africa, western Swaziland and Lesotho.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris autochthones Clancey, 1952; Southern Mozambique south to north-eastern South Africa and eastern Swaziland.
The white-crowned cliff chat (Thamnolaea coronata) of West Africa is sometimes included in this species.
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Backing on to Boscombe Chine Gardens, it traded as the Cliff End Hotel from the 1930s until it closed c2002, although it appears to have been inhabited in one form or another until 2005 when it was boarded up and fenced off.
Unsurprisingly it soon fell into disrepair and started to attract squatters and fly tippers.
In December 2012 a lightening strike started a fire that further damaged the structure.
The building, rather unsympathetically extended in the past, stands within a conservation area meaning it can't just be demolished and replaced by flats, rather any scheme would probably have to incorporate the original centre section, or at least the facade.
Either way, the longer the building stands unused, the more it deteriorates and the more difficult and expensive the job of redeveloping it becomes.
Hopefully the council will stick to its guns and won't allow it to be demolished and replaced by a non descript block of flats.
THIS FROM THE BOURNEMOUTH DAILY ECHO.........
The 125-year-old Cliff End Hotel was created for the jeweller H Samuel, but has been decaying since it closed in 2002.
It is believed the main part of the building dates back to 1887, and the hotel was the first in Bournemouth to get colour television in 1968.
By the 1980s, it had 40 bedrooms and a restaurant that could seat 120 diners.
The Boscombe Partnership has been trying to get planning permission for a new build after buying the leasehold to the hotel in August 2010.
But the freeholder, the Meyrick Estate, has alleged that the building was not being well maintained, and has not given approval.
Councillors and residents said the hotel had become a “death trap” in the summer of 2011 after a teenage boy fell through the rotting floorboards, but was luckily unhurt.
Update July 2013.
A recent report in the Echo stated that the Meyrick Estate were planning to submit plans for the site that would include a building that residents "can be proud of......."
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A pic of me jumping off the kiddie cliff at Rick's Cafe in Jamaica. I was going to jump off the big cliff, but Heather said she wouldn't come and visit me in the Jamaican Hospital. She said she would be back at the resort on the beach sipping a Pina Colada and I thought to myself, you know that sounds much better than dying so kiddie cliff it was.
This tower is a short walk from Ayr. (You can make out Ayr on the horizon)
Built in 1603 this tower stands on the site of an old castle that is no longer there.
You can get right up to the tower itself and once you do you realise just how close to the edge of the cliff it really is...
York Fowler jumps off a cliff into a freezing Lake Georgetown on February 21, 2003. Thats right.... February.