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Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:22 pm
by Pilot
Ranks Mills, we used to get lots of small ships bringing grain to Ranks on Gateshead side of the river.
the area has been developed over recent years
some of the bridges across the Tyne at newcastle
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:26 pm
by Pilot
looking down river from the millenium bridge
Spillers Mills on the Newcastle side of the river
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm
by Pilot
Blinking eye or millenium bridge
Spillers mill
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:40 pm
by Angie
Some nice pictures there, Pilot.
I like the one of the millenium bridge
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:47 pm
by Pilot
Thanks angie they were taken on 18th Sept 2007 on a trip down the river.
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:51 pm
by Pilot
The Ouseburn
my old Company office
The Lead factory....International Paits
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:57 pm
by Angie
You're welcome.
Sometimes i dont think we appreciate what we have on our door step.
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:38 pm
by Pilot
250 ton crane on whet was the Naval yard
the lead factory corner, the tightest bend in the river between the sea and newcastle
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:47 pm
by baldy.smith
Pilot wrote:Thanks angie they were taken on 18th Sept 2007 on a trip down the river.
Don't you mean 18th Sept 2008?
That's the date embedded in the photo.
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:15 pm
by Pilot
Bloomin heck yes 2008, old age setting in, well at least you know i took them with my nikon d40
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:22 pm
by Pilot
Whats left of the Neptune Yard......nothing
Wallsend Dry Docks.........nothing
Swan Hunters.....cranes being shipped to India
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:24 pm
by baldy.smith
Pilot wrote:Bloomin heck yes 2008, old age setting in
How do think I feel then, I got just over ten years on you.
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:26 pm
by Pilot
And i wish i could give you them years back baldy.....but i guess you enjoyed them to the full
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:31 pm
by baldy.smith
Pilot wrote:And i wish i could give you them years back baldy.....but i guess you enjoyed them to the full
I intend to make the next ten even better.
Great photos by the way, very interesting, especially for our oversea freinds.
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:35 pm
by Pilot
Palmers dock, the only dry dock still working
modern tug
jarrow staiths.....long gone
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:54 pm
by Pilot
the marine police headquarters in Jarrow
looking up the long reach
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:59 pm
by Pilot
Northumbrian water sludge jetty at Howden
car carrier at Nissan
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:01 pm
by anna
=D> =D> =D> great photos Pilot ...
the flour mill didnt always look that clean and tidy did it ,,,it looks much better since they painted it ,,,considering its one of the main things you see along that water ....
thaks for sharing ..
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:03 pm
by baldy.smith
You've shown me a few places on the river which I didn't know existed, Pilot.
Re: Tyne pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:04 pm
by Pilot
Well i preferred it when it was scruffy and had ships running to it Anna, but now its the Baltic Art Gallery or something
I remember it was running with rats and pigeons in its hay day.