Month February 2011

Hooelake hulks & wrecks inspire art and memories!

Hooe Lake Wrecks & Hulks
Whilst perusing the pictures at the Plymouth Society of Artists art exhibition in Plymouth Museum Art galleries recently, I came across a pleasing painting of one of the old rotting hulks lying in Hooe Lake. The painting brought back childhood memories of the 50’s when around the age of 14yrs ( I’m now 66) the most rebellious thing I ever did was to steal two cigarettes from my mother’s pack, and with a friend, paddled out to the rotting barges towards the middle...

Hooe Lake Planning Study

Hooe and Radford Lake’s rich biodiversity, as revealed in the March 1993 Planning Study The Eastern shore of Hooe Lake The limestone sea wall supports a significant population of the locally rare Sea Hard-grass and the Pointed Snail (Chochlicella acuta).…