Three boats

Hebburn Marina

Hebburn marina is just a few miles up the River Tyne from South Shields, but it’s not quite the sort of marina that you might find at Monaco or Brighton, more a place for small boats to be tied up. You won’t find hundreds of millionaire’s yachts here, just the smaller type of boat (and one trimaran) belonging to those who may be more interested in getting out past the piers at South Shields to do some sea fishing.

However, it is a place I like to go to just to walk the hilly paths in the Riverside Park.

Camera details; Pentax K100D, 300mm lens, 1/750 second, f8, iso 200

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Craggy views No. 3

St. James Park

This is our third view from Marsden Craggs, South Shields this time looking to the west and across Jarrow and Hebburn towards Newcastle upon Tyne.

It’s probably worthwhile “right clicking” on this and saving it to view in your Windows Pictures and Fax viewer so you can magnify it and have a good look around. You can almost see into the football stadium!

In the bottom left hand corner just above the modern pointed red tiled roofs of Harton Moor estate you will see the slightly darker forms of the old Victorian wards of South Shields District Hospital, just to the right of centre in the foreground are a couple of tall metallic chimneys, these mark the location of the workhouse where the world famous authoress Dame Catherine Cookson worked as a young girl.

In between, and just to the right of the two labels there is a large flat red roofed building, this is the B&Q DIY store in Byker, Newcastle, and just behind it are the tall blocks of flats in Shieldfield.

The red and grey horizontally striped building in the centre is a former Civil Service office in Hebburn which was previously used by the Reyrolle switchgear company.

St. James’ Park is the home of the English Premiership Football club Newcastle United and the 52,000 seater stadium is located on a hill at Leazes Park, Newcastle. Google Earth measurement shows that the straight line distance from Marsden Craggs, where I stood with the camera, to St. James Park is 9.7 miles! The tall block of flats on the extreme left edge of the skyline is located in the Benwell district of Newcastle some 17 miles away from the camera.

Camera details; Pentax K100D, 450mm lens, 1/500 second, f9.5, iso 200

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Las Vegas on Tyne

Christmas decorations in Hebburn

This is Station Road in Hebburn with Fountains Park on the right hand side, just a few miles along the Tyne from South Shields. It’s beginning to look like the strip in Las Vegas don’t you think? Another few years and we will have done it.

Our Christmas displays in the borough’s shopping centres are certainly getting better each year with the help of our sponsors.

Camera details; Pentax K100D, 28mm lens, 7/10 second, f9.5, white balance tungsten.

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The Ironworks

Hebburn Marina

Alongside the the River Tyne at Hebburn Marina we have a nice new “boardwalk” with an ornate iron fence fronting on to the riverside. There are quite a few decorative panels in the fencework created by our local schoolchildren. This one illustrates the river’s history including the invasion by the vikings, a crane depicting the nearby Hawthorn Leslie shipyard, and the outline of a factory, possibly Reyrolls Switchgear in Hebburn.

The coloured light reflections on the water were added with Photoshop.

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Towering spike

St. Andrew’s church, Hebburn.

Hebburn is on the Western edge of South Tyneside and it’s history and culture revolve mainly around shipbuilding and mining, Andrew Leslie arrived in 1853 from Aberdeen in Scotland to build his shipyard here, he also funded the building of Saint Andrew’s Church which opened in 1873. It has the tallest spire in South Tyneside.

So tall that I couldn’t make a decent frame of it, so I hope this viewpoint looks o.k. against the early evening sky.

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