Dorset with CCC - Day 3 - 12th June Part 2 Kimmeridge Bay

 After Lunch at Tyneham Village we drove to Kimmeridge Bay. 

A very nice beach and extremely good water quality record - No I did not go swimming. A few of us ventured onto the beach. We had been talking as a group about the lovely textures in the cliffs and the rock  on the beach. I started taking photos of the beach rocks with the Fuji x100V - in-camera multiple exposures with different white balances. I go a few strange looks from some families. It was only when I looked up some minutes later that I saw a number of our group doing the same. We must have looked very strange :)

After a nice afternoon we climbed back up to the car park and had a very nice ice cream

Dorset with CCC - Day 3 - 12th June. Tyneham

Tyneham - Dorsets Forgotten Village.

 Tyneham is an interesting tourist attraction. Before WWII it was a busy village in beautiful countryside. Situated a few miles from the coast. There was a Mansion, Tyneham House. It had its own Church, school, postoffice, farms. No electricity or running water, just a idilic lifestyle. 

The government of that time decided, due to the proximity to Lulworth firing range, to claim the village and the villagers were told to leave. It was a temporary measure for the greater good. However despite many campaigns the villagers have not been allowed to return home.

One particular landmark took my attention. The Phone-box. This item had a history and was going to be my picture for my daily photo journal. Due to a failure of the internet where we were staying it never got published, another image went out instead.

The first image here is that image :-

The Tyneham Phone Box - Kiosk No 1  Mk 236

During the First World War the village  of Tyneham installed a telephone in the back of the Post Office. In 1929 the iconic K1 telephone box was installed in the village. 

In 1943 the whole village was told to evacuate to allow the military the use of the village as a training ground, and it still is. The residents, some 200 of them, did expect to return but this did not happen.

In 1985 the phone box was 'accidentally destroyed' by a film company whilst filming  'Comrades', a film about the Tollpuddle Martyrs. The film company agreed to replace the Phone Box, and so they should. The old phone box was White whereas the one we see today is White and Red.

An excellent day spent around 'Tyneham - Dorsets Forgotten Village', lots of history and controversy 

And here are other photos from the village :-