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I was fortunate to be able to buy these 6 postcards off the
internet and wanted to find out just where the site was in
relation to Rimac today, so guess who I went to see? Yes, Bert
Richardson the man who was there at the time!! Bert was only too
pleased to accompany me to Rimac and show me. We turned off the A1031 on to the lane that leads to the Rimac Nature Reserve car park,
just before going over the bridge across the River Eau, the first
bungalow shown on the postcard photos can be seen (click the first image to
see it).
We then
pulled into the gateway on the left after the bridge and Bert
explained that in this field there used to be three caravans,
slightly "Posher" than the rest, they each had their own outside
toilet! (now click the next image to see it) You will see
the same tree shown in the postcard still stands along with others.
We then continue and park the car in the new car park:
From here we walked through the entrance to Rimac and took the
easy access path to our right, following this until we could see
the viewing point, at the bottom of the first sand-hill.
At this point we left the easy access path and continued on the
grass path heading towards the next large sand-hill (this is
where I took my photos from, click the next two images to see
more) we stopped half way between the two sand-hills, turned
and faced inland and as Bert said; "We are now in the middle of
'The Ring' as it was known, the caravans and bungalows would
have been all around us". Bert explained that this area was flat
in those days and that the 1953 flood and the passing of time has changed the
look of it, but the sand-hills do remain. (Remember the viewing
point, at the bottom of the first sand-hill - I will come back
to that shortly!).
Bert and I then returned along the
easy access trail to the main path against the entrance, we then
walked down towards the 'Salt-marsh Viewpoint'.
We stopped a short way up the sloping path leading to the
viewpoint and Bert explained that the Buckthorn bushes on the
left were not there when it was a holiday camp, but in their
place were some more wooden bungalows, also if you look to the
right of this path, there were also one or two bungalows. (Now click the
first of the colour images.). Remember I said; *take note of the bungalow in the distance on all of these three
postcards*, well this is where it was!!
I am very grateful to Bert for going along to Rimac with me, for
someone who is 90yrs. old, he is a remarkable man!!
I returned later in the day to the
viewing point, at the bottom of the first sand-hill that I had
past with Bert earlier.
Here you will find the 'Notice
Board' with information about the area, it brought back memories
for me. (click the last image to see this)
I remember attending a talk in our
local village hall not long after we moved here, given by the
Louth historian David Robinson OBE. He told of the purposed town
of Rimac-On-Sea ('Tin Town', as it became known locally) and how
the roads had been marked out, given names and the people
started to move onto the site to stake their claim with all
manner of dwellings, Tin huts, Busses and Vans with their wheels
removed etc. He also had some wonderful pictures of this area as
it was, I wonder if these are now in the Louth Museum?
Just
Think, our nearest costal resort could have been right on our
doorstep!!!
Also on the notice board you will
read that at low tide the wreck of the ‘Try’ can still be seen
off Rimac. It was wrecked in 1900 carrying a cargo of coal. 8
years earlier the ‘Try’ was beached during a raging storm.
Captain John Adams of Saltfleet survived but his wife, 3 young
children and the captain's brother perished.
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about the 'Try' and Captain Adams and his Family |
