hightown beach

✨ Treasure Hoard: The brick fields of Hightown beach, Hightown.

The walls they kissed against, threw balls against, are now fragments on the shoreline.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 8 Mar 2024

But, out of the horror and destruction of the blitz has emerged something quite remarkable: a huge swathing, pulsing galaxy of bricks. Here the cut of the frog and arris is softened by the wave’s embrace.

🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The Brick Fields of Hightown, Merseyside.

I’m told that the bricks (amongst other later demolished sites) were deposited here after the blitz of Liverpool - swept up from the bomb-pitted terraced houses and trucked onto the beach.