We've visited several art galleries during our short trip to the North East, but few have anything to compare to the triptych mosaic on open display in the entrance hall of Whitley Bay Metro Station. Entitled "Passing", it was created in 1983 by Ian Patience and a group of young people from a Youth Opportunities Programme. Brilliant.
Home again. Home to the hills and the mills, home to the stone and the sets. The scale of Newcastle was grand, but perhaps a little too grand. I like to see fields at the end of streets and moors on the distant horizon. It's good to be home.
Whilst in Whitley Bay, I found a rather good second-hand shop with a small selection of Victorian photographs for sale. The price negotiation was complicated by my profound deafness and the shop-owner's challenging regional accent, but a price was eventually arrived at. Here is the first of the ten photographs I bought. A pencilled caption on the back of the card states that it is Mrs Hall of Newsham.
Scanning some of my old negatives from fifty-plus years ago, I come across one I haven't featured before. You could run an entire pub quiz for folk of a certain age who grew up in the Halifax area on this image alone. It is pre-Burdock (as we say in these parts) but only just so: the ground is clearly being prepared for the flyover to come.
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