Small governor on one of the Ryhope pumping engines (early April).

Views of the Tees on a walk in mid-April from Barnard Castle to the Morritt Hotel, Greta Bridge. The hotel would have been an important coaching hotel on the originally Roman West-East route across the Pennines, which is now the A66. But Greta Bridge was bypassed in 1980. On the right is the “meeting of the waters” with the River Greta.
Classic view of the Tyne bridges from the High Level Bridge looking towards the Swing Bridge and the Tyne Bridge behind (end of April).
A walk around the Tees from the oddly named village of Middleton One Row in early May. (Top) Heading upstream through woods, before emerging into meadow. (Middle) The striking church of St. John the Baptist, Low Dinsdale and view of the Tees (from Over Dinsdale Bridge?). (Bottom) Girsby Bridge is an unusual “bridle bridge” carrying a bridleway over the river. The local landowner was apparently keen that the locals used a new church in Girsby rather than restoring the old one on her estate (Sockburn Hall)!

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Apr to early May 2023

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