The harbour town at the end of the line
Lights in Whitby Harbour, John Atkinson Grimshaw. Public domain. Not a picture of Wrenmouth: its own painting is still to come.
Wrenmouth
The line ends at the sea. Tonight the boats are in, the nets are up in the lofts and the wind has the harbour to itself.
Wrenmouth is where the River Wren runs out and the railway stops. There is a harbour inn, a lighthouse on the point and a row of net lofts along the quay.
From an upstairs room you can hear the weather arrive in the order it comes: wind first, then rain against the glass, then the long, low sound of the sea beyond the wall.
There is no layer for the sea yet. For now the swell is brown noise, kept low, and the gulls are left to your imagination.
- On the line
- The last stop
- River
- The Wren
- Best in
- A gale, from indoors
- Light
- The lighthouse on the point
Listen in
Steady rain on the village green, heard from indoors.
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