Archive for February 2007
No Parking
Multi-storey car park demolished.
No more parking here! South Shields one and only multi-level car park is being demolished to make way for a new development. It will be replaced (temporarily) with a ground level car park until a new commercial office block is raised in it’s place. This is in Mile End Road, South Shields.
I’ve used a Photoshop action to tint and tone this frame.
Queen and Empress
Queen Victoria
The statue of Queen Victoria, Britains longest reigning Monarch, and Empress of India stands outside of the main entrance to South Shields Town Hall in Westoe Road. For a period she used to grace a public garden at Chichester, South Shields, before being brought back to her rightful home.
Rock of ages
Eroded rock formation
Who knows how many centuries ago this piece of rock was connected to the mainland? It has stood for all the years that I have been here protecting a small piece of coast from the constant banging and crashing of the detructive waves from the North Sea. Eventually it will yield and crumble, and fall into a pile of millions of pebbles and boulders washed onto the beach, the passage of time will reshape the coastline once again.
Sunset on Tyne
Darkened River
I have posted this scene in the past but thought that it looked so different in straight forward black and white, what do you think? Sunsets always look so vivid in colour.
This is a view over the River Tyne from River Drive in South Shields.
Wooden Miner
Westoe/Market cycle path
The old Westoe Colliery in South Shields was located fairly close to the coast and connected to the river (where ships would load the coal) by various mineral lines. After the coal mine closed down, some of these railway lines became pedestrian walkways or cycling paths. This is one such cycle path on the route from the former Westoe Colliery, South Shields to the back of the Market Place in Coronation Street, along it’s length are a few works of public art to remind us of the history of this route.
A wooden miner carved from a tree stump, an important reminder of the source of coal and the source of our prosperity.
