Walking the Dog - Sepia Saturday

Sepia Saturday's November theme is "Walking"  - and this week;s prompt photograph is "Walking the Dog". 

My contributions can  hardly be called "vintage" but they reflect  happy memories of our dogs.

 

 

 

Daughter and  her cousin walking their dogs on the beach at South Shields on  the  English north east coast with the Marsden Rock, impressive in the background 

Marsden Rock is a 100 foot sea stack which lies 100 yards off the cliff face.  Believed to be once  a smugglers' haunt,  it is now the home of seabird colonies.   In 1803 a flight of steps was constructed up the side of the rock. In 1903 several choirs climbed onto the rock to perform a choral service.  

 

My husband spent his childhood here, with the beach a favourite playground. In a way this is an historic photograph, as in 1996 the arch collapsed, splitting the rock into two stacks. The smaller stack was decreed unsafe and demolished.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Husband with our second cocker spaniel, Coleen on the beach at Beadnell, in Northumberland.

 

 

It is a windy May and I am well wrapped up for a walk on the island  of Iona off the west coast  of Scotland,

 

The pleasures   of owning a dog in winter .

 

Daughter and then husband out on the  hill behind our then house in the Scottish Borders.

 

 

And if you can't have the real thing, a favourite toy will do. 

 

Daughter c.1975

 

 

Granddaughter taking her toy dog for a walk, c. 2010

 

 

  

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