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Part of the occasional series following the River Skerne, Hurworth Burn Reservoir is a few miles east of the river’s source. Built in 1867 to supply Hartlepool’s now defunct ship-building industry, the reservoir was put up for sale in 2012. Curiously it originally had an associated railway station<\/a>; the walk followed the Castle Eden Walkway, which follows the route of the former Castle Eden railway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Just south of the reservoir, Butterwick Moor wind farm.<\/p>\n

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Having lived in Durham nearly 20 years, it was very surprising to come across a medieval building (15th C) I didn’t know about! Although referred to as Hallgarth “tithe barn”, it was actually a granary for Elvethall Manor (or “Hall Garth”), the home farm for the cathedral priory.<\/p>\n

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Good old fashioned mechanical dials at the Spring Bank Holiday steaming of the\u00a0Ryhope pumping engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Blast Beach at Seaham<\/a>. (L) Probably named after the former blast furnaces of nearby ironworks, Blast Beach used to be covered in mining waste – the remains of a slab of this “minestone<\/a>” can be seen on the right. (R) It’s not clear how this stack has survived, given the weak nature of the rock.<\/p>\n

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The 2nd edition of Balloons in Durham. The winds were mostly too strong for safe takeoff, but conditions improved just in time to allow flight on the final evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15,2,10],"tags":[58,59,72,83,167,95,154],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-local","category-places","category-uk","tag-coast","tag-county-durham","tag-durham","tag-old-buildings","tag-reservoir","tag-rocks","tag-steam-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","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=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}