A coastal odyssey from Bridlington to Broughty Ferry
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Text © Copyright September 2022, Oliver Dixon;
licensed for re-use under a Creative Commons Licence.Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 - Bridlington to Filey Brigg
- Part 2 - Filey Brigg to Whitby
- Part 3 - Whitby to Redcar
- Part 4 - Redcar to Hartlepool
- Part 5 - Hartlepool to Roker
- Part 6 - Roker to Blyth
- Part 7 - Blyth to Alnmouth
- Part 8 - Alnmouth to Budle Bay
- Part 9 - Budle Bay to Scottish border
- Part 10 - Scottish border to Dunbar
- Part 11 - Dunbar to Musselburgh
- Part 12 - Musselburgh to Burntisland
- Part 13 - Burntisland to Anstruther
- Part 14 - Anstruther to Broughty Ferry
- Acknowledgements
Part 5 - Hartlepool to Roker
After suffering from 100 years of waste tipping by the coal industry, the coastline of County Durham had a run-down and neglected image. Between 1997 and 2002 fourteen organisations came together in the Turning The Tide Partnership to regenerate and clean up the coastal strip in a £10 million programme of environmental improvements, supported by the Millennium Commission.
North Sands, Hartlepool, with the old pier of the Steetley Magnesite works in the distance.
Sanderlings must surely be the most hyperactive of all British birds as they scurry along the water line.
As I got closer, I could see that there were a couple of missing spans in the old pier of the Steetley Magnesite works.
Hartlepool Golf Club on the dunes a short way inland.
Further north the cliffs got higher and the beach less continuous.
A very steep dip in the clifftop path at Cross Gill.
Little Tern sculpture on the clifftop.
Bench and art installation on the path at Horden.
White stones on Blast Beach derived from the Magnesian Limestone cliffs behind.
This fossil remnant of a tree discovered in Dawdon Colliery. Probably, a remnant of club moss, which in the Carboniferous swamps and forests could grow up to 30 metres high.
Taxis at Seaham Harbour, waiting for seamen coming ashore.
These wood carvings commemorate Lord Byron and his wife Annebella Millbanke, who were married at nearby Seaham Hall in 1815. Beyond, the pedestrianised Church Street leads up to St John's Parish Church.
"Tommy" or 1101, a famous steel sculpture of a war-weary soldier stands on the green at North Terrace, Seaham. Locally nicknamed "Tommy", the official name is "1101" - that is, one minute after the armistice at the end of World War I.
Seaham Promenade, littered with stones thrown up by winter storms.
"Eyes down" - looking for sea glass. The Londonderry Bottleworks operated from 1853 until closure in 1921. During that period, large quantities of waste glass were dumped into the sea. In the following decades, glass fragments of many colours have been ground down by marine action to form translucent pebbles. Some of the "sea glass" is made into jewellery.
To the north of Seaham the cliffs, being composed of soft material, make a good example of "badland" topography.
Sunderland's best kept secret - Hendon Central Promenade and beach. My wife lived in Sunderland for over 30 years but had no idea of the existence of this attractive bit of seaside only two kilometres away.
At the northern end, the Promenade comes to an abrupt end with a fence trimmed with razor wire, guarding storage tanks within the Port area.
Having to negotiate this long narrow underpass beneath the docks railway might explain why so few people ever make their way down to Hendon Promenade.
The footway along Hendon Road carries the England Coast Path round the outside of the city centre.
The path crosses the Town Moor, an area of green space adjacent to the docks.
The path threads its way between modern housing blocks down to the banks of the River Wear.
A model of the sun in the shadow of Wearmouth Bridge. This model is part of a representation of the solar system; boards representing the planets are sited at their relative distances along the north bank of the Wear, finishing with Pluto at Roker Pier.
"Shadows in another light", one of the sculptures forming part of the St Peter's Riverside Sculpture Project.
Entrance to the tunnel which allows access to the lighthouse at the far end of Roker Pier in bad weather.
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