This bell features much the most complex and informative Interpretation Board of any of the bells. In particular it focusses on the change in sea temperature caused by climate change. That is of concern to all, of course, but is of especial concern in Morecambe Bay, where it appears that problems with the extremely important local fisheries may be linked to changes in sea temperature.

The bell is very accessible - as long as it isn't high tide. It's immediately adjacent to Churchfields car park.

We have a number of downloads which we hope you will enjoy and find useful when you are with your children on the beach.

A simple guide to identifying things you find on the seashore is here. (Welsh language here).

Here is a guide to the main jellyfish around the British Coast (Welsh language here).

And here is a guide to identifying different types of seaweed.

These cards are designed for children in Pre School and Reception: download here (Welsh language here).

Cards for Years 1 and 2 (KS1) are here (Welsh language here).

They are designed to continue to develop childrens’ understanding of numeracy, whilst playing on the beach. Research tells us that ‘learning though doing’ or ‘practical maths’ dramatically aids understanding.

The cards are written around the current (2019) English Curriculum and cover most aspects of the numeracy curriculum. They should be revised regularly, to build on learning elsewhere. The words have been carefully selected, to help children to develop their mathematical language, which is a focus in schools and the English curriculum.

We hope you and your child enjoy using them.

Juliette is working with local schools and home education groups to tailor resources directly for their needs. If you are a school or home education hub near to one of our bell sites, please get in touch We can tailor most of our resources to suit your needs.

Teacher packs will include: a short lesson plan with curriculum links, differentiated resources for children to complete and an activity guide. These resources are available to download, for free, via google docs, once your school has signed up.

Seashore surgery

This is an exciting project where teachers and students (usually Y3 and/or 4, but other years groups welcome) commit to 4 visits to the beach each school year. They take part in an eco-system deep dive; investigating animal life, flora and fauna and the different tidal areas on the beach. The school record their findings and share them with the project team and with marine biologists working with us. This data then informs research looking at the changing marine life around the UK. Each school will be able to access the data from everyone taking part and compare finds, as well as use the information to generate their own local questions. Citizen Science at its best!

Click here to join up.

School beach schools

We have some suggested STEAM activities that schools can use to engage children on the beach. These offer curriculum links, session plans and follow up resources that help children to understand tides, weather systems, local habitat, wind, as well as a few chemistry experiments and learning about colour and light. Some of these activities are shown on our blog and can be completed in a classroom or on the beach, others involve a visit to the beach to be completed.

To request these, please click here.

Uniquely, this bell is mounted beneath a working pier

Installed early in October 2019, this bell now has a new wave-catcher, made from carved oak.

This bell has an opening cut in the dock above, to allow close observation of the mechanism. It is normally covered by a grille.

Is it strong enough to have a bottle of champagne smashed over it? The answer is yes, easily.

Included a band

in this small community was very well attended...

This bivalve is widespread in coastal waters and on the ocean shelves of the North Atlantic. In North America it is usually called the Ocean Quahog (pronounced ko-hog).

Arctica islandica dates back to at least the early Cretaceous about 135 million years ago. Individual Icelandic Cyprines live for hundreds of years, the oldest living non-colonial animal known. One specimen was 507 years old when it died. Their shells have growth lines rather like trees, which record the years and the environmental conditions. They are being studied to help reconstruct as sequence of climate changes in the past.

Our greenhouse gas emissions not only cause global heating and sea level rise, the increased carbon dioxide absorbed by the oceans' waters leads to acidification, a lowering of the sea water's pH. This will have devastating effects on ocean biodiversity, making a major contribution to the Sixth Mass Extinction, the beginnings of which we are now witnessing. The Icelandic Cyprine, however, can survive high levels of CO2 in the water, having survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) 55 million years ago. Even if we manage to drive our own species to extinction, this little clam is likely to survive us.

Look out for Arctica Islandica on the beach. You might walk over a thousand cockles, mussels, oysters, razor clams, piddocks, tellins and gapers before spotting an Icelandic Cyprine, but when you do, it may be the shell of the oldest creature you've ever seen. And it's descendants may have a longer future than humanity.

The Lincolnshire Bell lies at the heart of an impressive range of arts activity, led by the Lincolnshire Time and Tide Bell CIC's Artistic Director, Biff Vernon. This example is of Warming Bells, an exhibition at the North Sea Observatory, Chapel Point, Lincolnshire, in August-September 2019, with the following theme:

We are a group of artists and arts promoters who recognize the potential existential threat of global warming and are determined to use the arts to communicate our concerns to our audiences.

To keep up with what else is happening, and the group's broader arts programme, follow both their website and their Facebook page.

The bell will have an entirely new design of structure supporting it - illustrated by Marcus Vergette.

The bell will be located at the rocky, Eastern end of the shingle beach, which itself is just beyond the large breakwater that creates Brixham marina - all a few minutes walk from the centre of Brixham. There is a lively cafe on the beach. There is a brief video on the beach here.

The sound of the clay dryers at the West end of the beach reveals the breadth and depth of the involvement of Imerys Minerals Ltd in Par - as employer and also through the channels, no longer used, through which ships used to pass. Their works show in the background of this photo.

At high tide the bell is some way out to sea....

The bell's setting, on the wide and long beach running North from Mablethorpe is enormously striking - at all states of the tide it stands out in an enormous expanse of sand and water.

The nearest road and car-parking is at North End, Mablethorpe by the Ferryboat Inn and Seal Sanctuary. Bus routes 51 and 59 from Lincoln and Skegness stop here. Take the path next to the pub to cross the dunes. On the beach turn left, northwards. The bell will be in sight, about 10 minutes' brisk walk up the beach. The Bell can also be reached from the Crook Bank car-park, approached from Theddlethorpe. It's an interesting walk across the dunes.

The bell installation took place in horrible weather, with help from a team from Van Oord and contractors Groundsun. The seventh bell of the series, it is the first to be installed on a sandy beach, which required a new form of mounting to the project.

The installation was the result of an enormous amount of work by the Lincolnshire Time and Tide Bell CIC, particularly Biff Vernon.

The view over Morecambe Bay