Archive for January 2008
Quadrus two
Sunset over the lake
Another view of the Quadrus Centre at Boldon near South Shields. This time taking in the lake surrounded with bull rushes. Oddly, this place doesn’t look quite so scenic in daylight hours, with two major roads on it’s boundaries.
Camera details: Pentax K100D, 55mm lens, 1/250 second, f8, iso 200
Sunset over Quadrus
The Quadrus Centre, Boldon
The Quadrus Centre at Boldon is just outside of South Shields and it offers an interesting commercial landscape. Set in a semi parkland with a lake and bullrushes it is becoming a haven for wild birds, geese, ducks, and other wildlife. The office complex has been designed utilising the latest “green” technologies and it’s cedar clad exterior is shown here reflecting the light of the setting sun.
Camera details; Pentax K100D, 28mm lens, 1/250 second, f5.6, iso 200
Coastal Erosion
Marsden Bay, South Shields
These limestone and sandstone cliffs have withstood thousands of years of constant battering by the North Sea, and coastal erosion has seen Marsden Rock emasculated and reduced to about half of it’s original size. The rock (top left quarter}, was once joined to the mainland!
We see here, on the right, evidence of recent land slippage with piles of rock and stone lying at the foot of the cliffs. In a few decades perhaps the road from Sunderland to South Shields will need to be routed a few metres further back!
Camera details: Pentax K100D, 35mm lens, 1/125 second, f5.6, iso 200
The end of a shipyard
Middle Dock, South Shields
This is all that remains of the Middle Dock by the River Tyne in South Shields. demolition crews have moved in to clear the land and in a few short years this area which one built and repaired ships will be renewed with houses, pubs, restaurants and shops. The old industries have died and a new beginning is on it’s way.
Camera details; Pentax K100D, 80mm lens, 1/90 second, f5.6, iso 200 (the vignette was added with Photoshop)
Four armed
Whitburn’s windmill
We have the remains of three windmills in South Tyneside, this one is in Whitburn Village on the southern edge of South Shields. The other two are on Cleadon Hills, South Shields and in West Boldon, there is also a fully restored working mill at Fullwell just outside of South Tyneside’s boundary.
Windmills were a fairly common site about 150 years ago and not just for milling grain, some milled limestone to make a chemical used in the dyeing of sail cloth.
Camera details; Pentax K100D, 28mm lens, 1/60 second, f8, iso 400
