Bluff pool
Jon Eiselin wrote in with a query on the the tidal pool at Brighton Beach:
Searching the internet to find some background information on the tidal pool at Brighton Beach near Cave Rock for a blog, I came across your e-address.
So this is why I’m writing you, to ask whether you might know more about this beautiful spot, which I last visited in 2008.
The questions I have are:
When was the pool commissioned, by whom, who built it, when, why at that specific location (when there was a stinky whaling factory just around the corner), its size, was it named after anyone in particular, would you perhaps have a picture of the pool in its days of glory or any other remarkable facts?
Any answers or further recommendations will be appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Jon Eiselin.
Anyone who can help with a picture or details is welcome to contact me direct or leave a comment below. I wonder if the pool was the result of a public works project (amphitheatre for e.g.) built during the depression?
8 November 2013: This question has been resolved. See this entry in the diary.
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This picture of Bentleys taken off another site I visit, reminded me of a similar Bentley (the big one in the middle of the picture) that used to be parked in upper West Street outside what was then Adlam Reid Funeral Directors, 584 West Street. I am talking here of 1955 to 1958. Every Sunday on the way to Mass at the Cathedral, my sister and I used to walk past the car in what was known as the “dead end” of town with the West Street Cemetery being the “dead centre”. On the opposite side of West Street was Wilson, Davey and C. Dunham also funeral directors. I seem to recall Dove and Sons were not far away either.  The Bentley, a big green open land tourer complete with straps across the bonnet used to be parked there very Sunday and I assume it resided there. It used to have a black cover protecting the seats and the interior. It had the same very large headlamps and at the base of the radiator was what I think was some sort of supercharger unit. With no parking meters to worry about it probably just stood there. It had plenty of chrome and stood out quite distinctly.  Does anyone remember this car and any idea who owned it. I wonder what happened to what today must be, a collector’s item.
