With the bell tower of Cullercoats lifeboat station, the Amsterdam-Newcastle (North Shields) ferry approaching the North Pier lighthouse at the entrance to the Tyne and Tynemouth Priory ruins on the cliff-top.
Seem to be breaking the 'rules' again with the placement of the horizon, that's 2/2 this year!!
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Looking over Cullercoats Bay & Saddle Rocks to Tynemouth & South Shields (and Souter) lighthouses a few minutes before sunrise.
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8.45am on New Year's Day (in 2010), Tynemouth's Long Sands, with further heavy snowfall coming in from the east. Only dog-walkers (and an odd photographer) ventured out - but they were rewarded with a very unusual beauty.
HFF!
More shots from the same time - for interest only, please DO have a look, please DON'T worry about commenting!!
flic.kr/p/7v16mN (right arrow from this shot takes you thru them all)
flic.kr/p/7uCd3h
flic.kr/p/7v8TjM
flic.kr/p/7vi3fM
flic.kr/p/7ATCQT
flic.kr/p/7DsWZs
flic.kr/p/7Gotot
flic.kr/p/7KbPCw
flic.kr/p/93cB5o
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A little ICM applied to Antony Gormley's monumental 'Angel of the North' installation.
The work is 20m tall with a 54m span and weighs 208 tons, with a 20m support encasing 500 tons of counterweight underground to stabilise it.
We've driven past it numerous times since it was installed in 1998 but this was our first visit to the actual site.
For a fascinating article do have a read of this if you can access it
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-42426028
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Last September we spent a long weekend with family in Tynemouth during our two weeks as 'nomads' between saying 'Goodbye' to our former home in Little Odell and 'Hello' to our new one in Alnwick. My wife's birthday fell when we were in her home 'village' - and on a gloriously sunny day too!
These are the 'Long Sands' as seen from the Cullercoats end of Grand Parade with Tynemouth Priory & Coastguard station on the cliff-top and the Grand Hotel prominent on the right (with sunlight on its side face).
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