After the rain

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A holiday-maker on Blackpool's central promenade looks at the clearing sky, from beneath an ornate shelter, after the rain has passed.

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"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain"
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English dramatist (from "Venus and Adonis")

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The Wyre Channel

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The Wyre Channel snakes out to sea, marking the course of the River Wyre as it flows into Morecambe Bay. It is the deep water route taken by the ferries as they enter the port of Fleetwood, Lancashire. Here, a few holiday-makers walk along its banks, overshadowed by a dramatic sky recently cleared of rain, and the distant Cumbrian Mountains.

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"The sea washes all man's ills away."
Euripides (484?-406B.C.), Greek dramatist

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Summer colours in spring

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The sea, the sky and the light on the shelter at Cleveleys, Lancashire, all say summer. However, the passing cyclist's yellow fleece jacket tells the truth: it's the end of April, and not as warm as it looks!

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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
H. G. Wells (1866-1946), English novelist and writer

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Promenade shelter

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This new concrete promenade shelter at Cleveleys, Lancashire, has heated seating! Surely the whole point of a bracing walk along the prom is to blow away the cobwebs, exercise the body, and generate your own warmth!

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"To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall."
T. H. Huxley (1825-1895), British biologist

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