Half Moon Bay Seacraft

The latest batch of cut down Lancaster bottles in progress, soon to be heading to the Etsy Half Moon Bay Seacraft shop. I love finding out about the retailers on the bottles. Here's a quick look at these four, from l- r...

* 'imperial William Mitchell' Mitchell's were a well known Lancaster brewery, at the time this beer bottle was made they were at 5 Common Garden Street
* 'WA' I believe this one is shopkeeper William Allen who was based at 60 Lower Church St
* 'William Wearing's Herb Beer', I've found a few of these now, Wearing's shop was 26 St George's Quay next to the Custom House.
* 'F Wolfenden' sadly there's more damage to the top so this will need further cutting, Wolfenden was a wine and spirit merchant and brewer and could be found in Riley's Yard, off Common Garden St.

These two local lovelies; a William Mitchell and a Curwens bottle are heading out of the door today and staying in their home town. The smaller sizes make great egg cups too I've just discovered! 🥚

I was recently commissioned to make one of my hearts with a letter 'V' in for a christening gift, despite it looking a little like a colour blind eye test, it came out rather well I thought!

Another cut down Lancaster aqua Codd bottle heading to the USA today- off to sunny Santa Barbara! ☀️🇺🇲

🌊🦐Well this is some good news indeed! Fantastic for Morecambe and the wider area. 🦐🌊

Eden Project Morecambe is happening 🥳
It’s the good news we’ve all been waiting for, following the announcement that the project will receive the £50M needed to go ahead.

Morecambe Town Council Chairman, Cllr Cary Matthews, has shared her thoughts on this exciting news:

“I am overwhelmed that Eden Project Morecambe has been given the green light. The town has been awaiting this decision for a number of years, and the development will breathe new life into Morecambe. This funding is thought to be the single largest ever investment into our town and is especially welcome at a time of major economic challenge. The funding will transform the area and unlock the huge potential of culture to enrich lives, communities and local businesses in the North - ensuring Morecambe is a better place to live, work and raise a family for years to come.”

My daughter asked me to draw her as a mermaid, I'm no artist but she was very pleased with it, bless her!
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Saying so long to this 1930s cut down Morecambe Direct Supply mineral water/soda bottle today, it's going to a new home in its hometown! 🤩
Also- check out the flavours of sodas that were available from the company- bring back the pop man! What flavours would you pick? 🫧

Good morning! The Half Moon Bay Seacraft stall is all set up and ready at the Green Christmas Fair at the Friends Meeting House Lancaster, open until 4pm today. Great gifts, music and food 🎄🥰

Found a lovely big haul of Lancaster and Morecambe vintage Codd and aqua water bottles yesterday (abandoned by the bottle diggers as imperfect) they've now been cut down and with a lot of sanding and polishing this week they'll hopefully be ready to bring to the craft fair at the Green Christmas Fair at the Friends Meeting House Lancaster next Saturday 🥰
Names on the bottles include regulars like Curwens and Yates & Jackson as well as W.Wearing herb beer (covered in a previous post), R Kirtons, Whiteheads of Wood St and the Crown Hotel Morecambe
(We won't mention the skull that I also found 💀)

The Christmas Green Fair at the Friends Meeting House is fast coming around- get ahead on the Christmas shopping whilst supporting lots of small local businesses and crafters!

I'll be there with my sea glass decorations, perfect for decorating the tree as well as cut down local historic bottles. 😍🎄
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Half Moon Bay beach clean this Saturday 3-5pm as part of the Marine Conservation Society's annual Great British Beach Clean. Come on down!
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Home Marine Conservation Society. Healthier ocean. Healthier planet.

It's been a busy week this week with a second cut down Lancaster codd bottle heading to the USA and the three commissioned Morecambe Bay sea glass mosaics heading off to new homes across the globe too! 🤩

Currently working on the first of three commissioned pieces that will be going across the globe as gifts to people who have overcome adversity and gone on to great things! Very honoured to help out 🌟😍🌠

🌲It's never too early to start thinking about Christmas 🙈.
I'm pleased to be back having a stall at the Green Christmas Fair at The Friends Meeting House on November 19th 🌲

This little group of vulcanite stoppers is heading off to a new home in Shropshire today. Bye bye! 👋
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Even on one of the hottest days there's always time to get the junior and senior members of Team Half Moon Bay searching for a bit of sea glass 😂👍

Brilliant! Love this 🥰

Morecambe landladies celebrated in English working-class heritage project Historic England £774,000 programme will also feature Deptford’s ‘gut girls’ and Durham’s miners’ welfare clubs

Today has been a historical mystery tour, focused on all things public health, from Victorian school bathrooms, swimming pools and drinking fountains to pauper burial sites and finally crinoids- it's been varied to say the least !
If you love Lancaster history, head over to my local history research page .

Saying goodbye to this one today as it heads off to Devon, thank you 😊

Apologies for being rather quiet here of late, I've been taken over somewhat with my other history related role and have been immersed in getting ready for my exhibition at Lancaster City Museum.

After 9 years in the making, I am very proud (and relieved) to present 'Going to East Road: A History of Lancaster Workhouse'. For the first time, it brings together never before seen photographs, documents and oral histories about this much feared and hidden institution.

The exhibition runs 2/7-11/9 2022 and is free to visit

Sea Glass Heart-
A mix of all the main sea glass shades
SOLD

Sea Glass Heart-
All the greens plus a chunky aqua bottle base-
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SOLD- Sea Glass Heart-
An even mix of aqua and frosty white

Just added plenty more Morecambe sea glass and sea pottery creations to the Etsy shop. Prices include free shipping within the UK.
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Did you know If you live in the Lancaster and Morecambe area and have spotted something you like, that I can deliver to you (usually at weekends), contact me direct and receive a £4 per item discount. I have a Square card reader so can easily and securely take payment in person. 🥰🌊

And we're open! The doors to the Spring Fair at Lancaster Friends Meeting House are now open and we're excited to see the first customers coming round!

Half Moon Bay Seacraft will be at the Green Spring Fair this Saturday from 10-4 with an array of my sea glass and pottery mosaics, upcycled Victorian bottles and loose local sea glass along with lots of other amazing local crafters like and .artisanbazaar.
Hope to see you there! 👋

Not long now until the Green Spring Fair at the Friends Meeting House on Sat May 7th where Half Moon Bay will have a stall, busy getting lots made 😊

Delivering my first business order today to Morecambe Visitor Information Centre at The Platform. Really pleased and excited to have Lancaster City Council as my first local stockist.
They are selling a lovely selection of my sea glass hearts, stars and upcycled vintage Morecambe bottle pots.

Morecambe Visitor Information Centre

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An egg-cellent recent find on the local bottle tip. Funny seeing it referred to as the Tower of Blackpool!

Sea glass jigsaw 🌊🥰

Before creating each mosaic I spend a while moving the pieces of sea glass and pottery around, selecting the best size and shape pieces for the board I'm working on. It's a real jigsaw at this stage, creating an aesthetically pleasing balance of colours and materials. Then I take a photo before grouting the board and begin putting the mosaic back together.
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On a day as warm as this there's only one place to head- to the beach at Arnside. Wide flat sands, fossil hunting and 'floating over the water' trains that we pretended were from Spirited Away 💙

Oh and some cracking pasties and sausage rolls from 😋

The next batch of Lancaster embossed historic cut down bottles have now been added to the Etsy shop. Early William Mitchell's, Curwens and Taylor & Allen's
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Flashes of colour amongst the frosty white.

Four beautiful new Lancaster embossed cut down bottles heading to the Etsy shop this afternoon.

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Lovely trip to the beach this morning, I haven't been since the storms of a few weeks back so it was good to see that there were still plenty of pieces of smoothed sea pottery and I found 5 more pieces of the pink and clear sea glass bits as well as plenty of the usual frosty clear and aqua bits 💙

Yay! Business cards have arrived. I do love a good business card, nice to have something official to give out 😂

Great job 🥰

After a very successful meeting yesterday with a potential stockist in Morecambe I'm pleased to say all went well and I'm now working on putting together a large order for them.

Currently working on new mini versions of my big sea glass mosaics as part of the order 💙