Lundy Island

Lundy Island, population 28 - with 2 visitors incoming like a bat out of hell !

Known to the population of Great Britain from the Met Office Shipping Forcast on BBC Radio 4, this island was once owned by the Knights Templar.

The island sits on the very edge of the North Atlantic Ocean, 12 miles off the coast of Devon, England.

This former pirate stronghold of the Barbary Pirates was our target of the hour.





A quick spin round Lundy Lighthouse



 



Not for the faint hearted this one !



 

 

 

There be pirates !!!!





All photographs Copyright Sleepyg/Fragglehunter Photography 2012 - ask don't steal !

Pilot Jon Hilton

Stevenson Square, Manchester - September 2012

Bit of a pet project this one.

Stevenson Square, Manchester - home of the Outhouse Project

Well its Heritage Weekend, so a crafty plot to take the kids to the Greater Manchester Police Museum means us jumping off the tram at Shude Hill and a short walk thru the Northern Quarter.

First off  a piece by Replete



Dan Birkbeck





Mooty


 






Akse - sadly someone had defaced this one.




Finally a work in progress, artist Akse - with a bit of Amy Winehouse.

 




 


A last minute spot,  a post up by Kiwie, interesting given this Latvian artist had recently been in North Wales painting the Duke of Lancaster

 


To be continued....

Round Britain Rally - Interview with the pilot

 



Following on from our win in the 2012 Round Britain Rally, Jon recently did an interview for Flying Podcast

If you your interested in flying take a look at the website or if your just after the info on the Round Britain Rally hop in at 28mins here ---->  Flypodcast


All interesting stuff and I get the piss taken out of my for nocturnal habits.

More reading on the Round Britain Rally


 

 

Scarborough from the air

Scarborough is ace, its cool, it was Britain's first seaside resort, it has a Tardis, my favorite film Little Voice was filmed there, Jimmy Saville is buried in Scarborough, Ben Kingsley was born in Scarborough.

Scenically it has everything, Scarborough Castle, cliffs, harbour, if you have never visited North Yorkshire you have never lived or had proper fish and chips !!

So on our trip round the UK in the Round Britain Rally I was looking forward to seeing the North Yorkshire coast in all its glory - but the weather was shocking....

 

 













No time for second chance shots, onwards we flew.


All photographs Copyright Sleepyg/Fragglehunter Photography 2012 - ask don't steal !

Pilot Jon Hilton

Lizard Night Club & Purple Door, Alderley Edge

This place is a total derp wreck, this popular night club of the 1990s was the place to be seen with clientele being the playboys of Cheshire, footballers and TV celebs.

 

 

It had been known under a variety of names such as Lizard, The Purple Door, Millenium and finally The Edge - It was granted a license as a lap dancing club in March 2000 and finally closed in 2004.

 

- Not the best explore and not the best pictures, but given I've smashed a couple of ribs leaving the place here we go.

Visited with a rather hung over Urban Spaceman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 











Looks like the Cheshire Set moved on and didn't look back....