These photos were taken by me on my journey through the north east of England, to compliment my story “In Search of a Northern Soul“. Click on the thumbnail and the full picture will open in a new window.
Part One – Tynemouth, North Shields, Whitley Bay and Newcastle
The Park Hotel, Tynemouth
Tynemouth Castle & Priory
From Tynemouth pier, looking north to Whitley Bay
Tynemouth pier
North Shields Fish Quay
The Lost Fishermen
Tynemouth Longsands
The abandoned Outdoor Pool (The Lido)
Cullercoats Harbour
The decaying Rex Hotel, once a venue for rock & roll
The Spanish City
St Mary’s Island & Lighthouse
The cleared dockyard of Swan Hunter
The Sage, Gateshead
The bridges of the Tyne
The Millenium Bridge
Part Two – Chester-le-Street & County Durham
The Angel of the North
The Labton Worm
Aunger’s Garage, my mother’s birthplace – about 1927
New Aunger’s, now Johnson’s, with Allotment Cottage built – about 1975
My father, outside Aunger’s garage, Chester-le-Street – about 1947
My mother outside Aunger’s, about 1947
Lumley Memorial to lost miners
Entrance to the drift mine at Beamish Museum
The actors of Beamish
The Black Horse, Beamish
Steelyhill Woods, the site of a massive former coalmine and brickworks
Grand-Uncle Arthur William Hinkley
Part Three – Northumberland
Northumberlandia
Low Newton
Lookout Cottage, Low Newton
In side Lookout Cottage – mostly blue, but what a view!
Lookout Cottage – original bunks where my great, great, grandfather was (probably) conceived in 1827
Stephen Wood 