Big Rock, Little Rock

Little Rock is not in Arkansas!

Rock pools uncovered at low tide at the foot of Marsden Rock, South Shields, home to colonies of kittywakes and guillemots. I think a little “selective colouring” works quite well here!

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Walking

A life guard walks across the beach

South Shields Volunteer Lifeguard Brigade is one of the oldest in the country and we are proud to have them and their historic watch house on the pier. Here, a life guard strolls across the beach on a regular patrol in summer.

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S.T.A.R.

GB2SJ

At a recent event in Souter Lighthouse, Marsden, South Shields, members of S.T.A.R. (South Tyneside Amateur Radio Society) were introducing youngsters to the hobby. Whilst I was with them, their radio station with the “special” callsign GB2SJ made contacts with other “hams” in Germany, Canada, and Belgium.

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Postcard from Hexham

Hexham Abbey.

On our recent day out in Hexham we also visited the Abbey founded by St. Wilfred in AD 674. I have used a template here for this postcard style, I can just drag and drop the pictures into the Photoshop psd file.

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Big Top.

The day the circus came to town.

The Big Kidz circus arrived in town, comprisiong performers from Russia, Ukraine, and Bulgaria, they are currently situated on a farmer’s field in New Road, Boldon Colliery. Here is their big top.

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