Don't go there!

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This is Dartmoor Prison, now a category C men's prison, opened in 1809 to house the prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars, then used in 1812 to hold American prisoners - between 1813 - 1815, 6500 American sailors were imprisoned there. There was a mutiny in 1932. People still think of Dartmoor prison as being a high-security prison that is escape proof, but now it only hold non-violent prisoners and white collar criminals. But no wonder with it's past... & with it's architecture, the imagination can run wild, as it's a very dark foreboding looking place, situated on the bleakest part of the moor. Plus with it's most famous fictional character of Seldon, the Notting Hill murderer who escaped from this very prison in the book written by Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Dartmoor started off sunny, then the black clouds gathered... & the heavens opened & it poured - rivers of water ran down the roads, we never made it to Widecombe in the moor - the road down was literally a lake!

Hopefully tomorrow will be better, Exmoor, but Johnny Kingdom's Exmoor... PLEASE MAY THE SUN SHINE THANK YOU!!!! :D

Charlie's blip is also of Dartmoor:

Cherrybrook Bridge

Thank you for all the lovely comments from yesterday's Gulls together never mind the weather - I really could not believe that made Spotlight! The weather is so appalling, any photography right now to me is, well, appalling, any photo I take, is, well, appalling... :(

Hope everyone is having a good week, I'll have a blip wander tonight on my phone & see how you're all doing, but whether I'll have the energy to comment, not sure, as I'm totally shattered, driving through flood water is rather stressful! xxxx