{"id":123,"date":"2010-05-08T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:36:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:36:39","slug":"county-durham-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"County Durham coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short set of photos from a trip to the Durham coast around <a title=\"Wikipedia on Souter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Souter_Lighthouse\">Souter Lighthouse<\/a> (National Trust).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/souterview\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SouterView-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SouterView\" title=\"SouterView\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->View from the top of the lighthouse. The green in the foreground is the site of former <a title=\"BBC Coast on Marsden village\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/wear\/content\/articles\/2005\/06\/29\/coast05walks_stage2_walk.shtml\">Marsden village<\/a>, which was already under threat from coastal erosion in the 1950s and was demolished shortly after its colliery closed in 1968.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/souterdroptube\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SouterDroptube-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SouterDroptube\" title=\"SouterDroptube\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The green column is not structural, but rather is a tube down which weights would drop in order to turn the lantern mechanism at the top of the lighthouse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/soutersea\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SouterSea-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SouterSea\" title=\"SouterSea\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coast around Souter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/souterarches\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SouterArches-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SouterArches\" title=\"SouterArches\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5262\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/souterstack2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SouterStack2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SouterStack2\" title=\"SouterStack2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Structures formed by erosion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/souterarch\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SouterArch-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SouterArch\" title=\"SouterArch\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5261\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/county-durham-coast\/souterarch2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SouterArch2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SouterArch2\" title=\"SouterArch2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the loose nature of the rock, it&#8217;s surprising that this fragile-looking arch has survived. It didn&#8217;t feel safe place to hang around!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short set of photos from a trip to the Durham coast around Souter Lighthouse (National Trust).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[58,59,57,170],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-local","tag-coast","tag-county-durham","tag-lighthouse","tag-national-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}