Gateshead to Newcastle

Statue in Gateshead

View to Newcastle from Gateshead

High Level, Swing and  Tyne Bridges

Swing Bridge

Baltic Chambers

Tyne pub Ouse Burn

Mouth of the Ouse Burn

3.9 miles from Gateshead Bus Station to Newcastle Bus station with a noisy lunch at the Cluny

Pincushion Rocks at Ryhope from car park near Seaham Hall

Plan

Pincushion Rocks from car park south of the dene with Sunderland in the distance.

Stack at Pincushion Rocks on the magnesium limestone cliffs at low tide. The only mag limestone cliffs in in UK. 

'Alien figure in rocks with spyhole on Seaham'

Amble Harbour

Short walk around Amble after picking up my paintings from the Coquetdale Gallery in Rothbury. I have decided this will be my last year at the gallery - its too far to travel from Durham.
Lunch in the harbour fish and chip café.

Harbour Boats

Interesting foreground with Warkworth Castle in the distance 

Used this photo as the basis for a collage project.

Interesting rear wall.

Blyth map

Headland and North Gare Hartlepool

 Fish and chips at Headland Hartlepool then walk along the South Gare south of Seaton Carew

 Power Station

 Redcar steel works

Keiper Woods and Finchale Abbey

 Stream cutting thro the carboniferous strata.

Trees at the top of the river banks. 

FINCHALE ABBEY

 Finchale Abbey

  Finchale Abbey and footbridge

 Cliffs

 Bend in River Wear.

 River Wear

 View from bridge

 View from road entrance

 Cliffs from the Abbey

 View up the River Wear

 Abbey reflections

Interesting tree shapes

Middleton Beach Hartlepool

 Headland

 Lifeboat station

Hartlepool, Seaton Caraw and Crimdon

Fish and chips at Vettals after a torrential downpour.

Rain cleared- its a different day

Houses on the town wall

Looks like the church needs more than flying buttresses - probably built on sand. 

Town wall and harbour from top of the park.

Steel Works at Redcar

South Gare

Houses on the Green

Headland from Seaton Carew

Hart Beach Crimdon with the Little Tern colony fenced off on the left.

Crimdon beck with the wardens hut for the Little Terns on the horizon. Apparently the eggs have been stolen on previous years, the watch is not carried out for the full 24 hours so any determined thief will just wait until its vacated. 

hartlepool post article

Start of the Magnesium Limestone cliffs which run all the way up the Durham coastline to the headland at Tynemouth.