Nature's artwork?

It was a foggy start to today and after many hill walks this week we stayed local.

This morning we visited the Middleham flood memorial garden. On 14th August 1952 ten houses stood here, on the 15th they were all gone and 52 people in Lynmouth had died as a result of a terrible flood surge along the 3 rivers that converge here. Three Middleham people died having decided to stay put whereas others fled to the school house. The floods were as a result of days if heavy rain followed by an even bigger storm. My picture shows a child's bedstead embedded in a tree! The power of nature can still be seen through the number of boulders still littered around the rivers and estuary.

We then headed back up the cliff railway which is 862 feet long joining Lynmouth and lynton since 1890 solely powered by water (see extras)