A Son of the Rock

As its name suggests the village of Cove in Berwickshire – just over the A1 from Cockburnspath where my friend Eric Brown lives – is near to a cove.

This cove:-

The path down to the actual cove goes past this memorial which commemorates the women and children left by the fishing disaster of 14th October 1881 when 189 fishermen were lost off this coast. Cove lost 11 out of 21 fishermen.

The path goes through a tunnel cut through this bluff; the cove itself is therefore very secluded:-

On the harbour wall there are bollards for boats to tie up to. They show interesting accretions of rust:-