Lepe Beach

This is near the start of all the many Lepe pictures which Dad poured out up till his last year of life. It would be lovely to see the colour. This seems to be on canvas which he was beginning to leave in favour of hardboard. The panorama is dotted with the examples of shipping at the mouth of Southampton water: what looks like a dredger, a steamer, and a tanker about to turn into the channel leading to the port. The construction on the beach to the left was a sign to shipping to warn of the pipe-line under the sea. It is no longer there, but I used to love climbing up it. To the right is the shingle bank which always starts to appear as the tide ebbs.