I thought andy's bay was Runswick too at first, but it can't be because there are houses right along the cliff tops there. Don't think it's Blackhall...I guess it's in the Marsden Rocks area

Aye - you're right - it's one of those places you'd probably need to have been ....

Though having said that, you're actually only 3 letters out with Runswick Bay !!

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i would concur
we seen billy west play in that room

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too easy for you aint it

I've only been up there once, for my cousins 25th Anniversary Party, a few years ago.

never been but is it Cayton bay where the caravans live

Fraid not ... no caravans up here

Is it Selwick Bay?

Close - wrong 3 letters Grabey

To be fair, one cliff looks pretty much like another, and a lot depends on your angle as well.

For example, that photo of Saltwick Bay doesn't show there's an offshore rock just round the corner.

Who mentioned anything about being fair ??


But I take your point - I just liked the picture

It's round the corner from here

Make that Rackwick Bay then 'cos that's the old man of hoy innit.

That's the fella .... fantastic beach - your shot Mr H ....

OK then let's have a bit more local flavour:

Is that Billingham Synthonia ?

From that cooling tower I think it is .... apologies for jumping the gun if it's not ...

So a bit more industrial grime ....

we have had this one before but Brenda Road is my guess and the slag banks were on the right.

Mainsforth Terrace?

can't be as the sinterplant belt would be the other way round
now ask me what the sinterplant is?

Sinter plant
In order to enhance the productivity of blast furnaces, a high percentage of sinter charge is a prerequisite. Sinter is an agglomeration of iron ore fines, coke and limestone in the form of cakes. To ensure sinter burden in the blast furnaces at 75 per cent, a total of 3 million tonnes of sinter was envisaged for a production of about 2 million tonnes of hot metal. A technologically modern and fuel efficient sintering machine having 198 square metres sintering area has been added as part of the modernisation scheme to produce 1.7 million tonnes of sinter. The balance requirement will be met from the revamped old sinter plant.

Sinter mix, a mixture of fines of iron ore, limestone, coke, dolomite and flue dust, blended proportionally at the RMHC, is a prepared material which is self fluxing. In ignition strands it is burnt under controlled conditions to form a porous cake type substance called sinter, which used in blast furnaces enhances productivity and reduces coke rate.

what he said
I only knew it as one of the dirties jobs in the "WERKS" the blokes who were bad time keepers and often took shifts off were given the job of keeping the belt clear
glad to say i never had that job.

Well Mr P, we've sorta had this photo before in a nostalgic photos thread, in fact, it's the wallpaper on my computer!
Though there's no proof, it's pretty certain the photo was taken from lower Windermere Road. I managed to examine an old map that supports this theory.

Gremms: Brenda Road is parallel to the werks not pointing at them!


By the way, "From that cooling tower I think it is ...."
I thought that might help.

sorry to disagree sir richard but that chimney you are looking on the left is i think the paper mill chimney
while i agree that Brenda road is parralell with the works i think that building in the left which looks like a pre fab is the site of the old steelworks test house
somewhere near to where Tones garage is now. I say it has to be taken from somewhere past the roundabout with Seaton Lane Brenda Road coming into the town
more research needed.

Look at the old OS map rather than relying on memory gremmly and you'll see. The iron and steel works are both indicated.
Windermere Road (just south of "LONGHILL" on the map) points directly between the steel plant (on the left/north) and the iron plant (on the right/south). It MIGHT be the parallel Thomlinson Road, but due to the angles I think it's more likely to be Windermere.



The only way that chimney could be Durham Paper Mills is if the photo was taken in Burn Road, but Burn Road misses the blast furnaces by a mile.

Hope this helps.

Sorry for a) repeating the old nostalgia thread, b) re-opening the old steelworks argument and worst of all c) not knowing anywhere near as much as you lot about it - I'd never seen the photo before last night and was just excited to see such a great picture.

If my grandads were still alive they would know - one worked at the Paper Mill, the other at the Steelworks !

Shall we revert back to Mr H who was in possession before the Steelies debacle ??

you can't fool me with a fuzzy map the main drag through the town from that end was Brenda Road the map you have shows the old Stockton road not even the foggy furze road now the main drag out of town.
you might be confusing it with the place they called "the long back lane' and in my memory you had no clear view from there like you have in the pic as it was all fenced off with scrap yards etc. I know for a fact that there was either allotments or farmers veg field on the same side of Brenda Road as the slag heaps and you can see those veggies in the pic
NO worries Andy P whose turn is it now?

andyp's if Billingham Synthonia was right earlier.

this pic shows the long back lane in the bottom left corner and it is too close to the WERKS to be in the pic you posted

Ok Ok .... let's get back to uncontroversial scenery ....

might as well have pic association too on this one

Well they look like needles and that looks like a lighthouse so how about "the needles lighthouse"?

My turn:

It's Mr Ripper's back garden? With the collection of petrified bunkerites who've aroused his wrath...

Dammit I'll have to stop making them so easy!!

could be Ricketts but that WOULD be easy

Do you all give in then. Do you want a clue or are you conceding outright victory?

Well, it is quite local. It could even be the most local yet depending on where you live.

there are some tree sculptures in Durham but bigger than that so close to home i would say Darlington clothes pegs?

Nope. Durham would have been closer.
But still wrong.
And still, not close enough.
Well, not close enough to Artlepool that is.
But definitely a whiff of coal dust about them.

It's not the Story Garden at Bowes, is it?

No! You're right! It's not the story garden at Bowes.
I thought this might have had some press in the Yakker Edition of the Mail at least.

Maybe its somewhere on the Hart to Haswell walkway

Well it is on a walkway of sorts but not that one.
You're heading in the right direction though. To someone else's nature reserve....

Castle Edens then

I give up. I'm worn out with guessing. If it's in Yakkerland, how come Richard knows about it and no-one local does?

Looks like that's as close as anyone is going to get so give you it.

It's near the Oakerside Lodge visitor centre on the Castle Eden Dene walkway to be precise.
In other words it's in Peterlee.

By this guy: http://www.ffynnonwen.com/clintchaloner.htm

Do fields have names?

That's the place in Canada that Billy Connolly went to on his journey through Cananda via the Northwest Passage, but I don't know the name!

I think this was featured on Billy Connelly's show on ITV last week.

It's known as 'Joes Scarecows' and it's in the Cheticamp region of Canada, if it's the same place that is!?

Well then, if these answers are correct, I object
No-one could guess that if they didn't watch telly much.

I'll assume I'm right seen as Fensy isn't around!

I'll try to stick to pictures I've taken myself so this might be a bit easier, name the sporting venue and the city it's in;