Another image from our recent trip to Lyme Regis. Previously I posted an image of some boats in the little harbour protected by the Cobb (click here to view).
Turning round from that image you get a view of the Cobb – a very substantial structure curving out into the bay – that has stood centuries of storms. On a cloudless day, the Cobb itself loses some of its photogenicity, but the people on the Cobb (as silhouettes) caught my attention
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I have a similar image from some years ago…..
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Another place we have both photographed!
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But your image is tons better’
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I’m sure it’s not!
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Mine was heavily cropped, grainy and ‘flat’
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Great stuff, I read that the cob is suffering from the heavy battering from the waves, it is crumbling somewhat.
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Thanks Paula. The Cobb does get a battering in major storms, but it is a very substantial object. I hadn’t heard of it being damaged – I must ask my brother-in-law who lives in Lyme
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I’ve never heard of something called a “cobb.” A quick search turned up Cobb salad, the baseball player Ty Cobb, and an assortment of other obviously unrelated things. Once I tried “cobb wall,” I think I found my answer. Is this wall done with cob (or cobb) construction?
Of course, as an American midwesterner, when you say “cobb” to me, I think immediately of corn on the cob. While that’s clearly not the same, there is a certain visual resemblance between the wall and the sweet corn I’m having for dinner tonight.
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The origin of the name ‘Cobb’ is not known, so I am told. Lost in the mists of time. Another peculiar English word that mystifies foreigners!
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